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The trouble with sorting one's library - whether Virtual or Physical - is that one always becomes distracted by the contents of the books themselves.
This happens especially when sorting through books which you can't quite remember if the title applies to a Marple or a Poirot or which section of the overall history of Star wars (I'm note-perfect in 3ABY through to 25ABY, the rest is a crapshoot) it belongs in. It doesn't bloody help that vast numbers of them have been written by Kevin J. Anderson or Jude Watson.
Or, of course, sifting through the DW. I've decided to stop trying to sort it according to Doctor and Companion unless I a) know for absolutely certain it's a particular Doctor (as in Snowfall or The War of Art) and Companion, or b) if I can see said Doctor on the cover (not very common with a lot of the NA series). Instead, it's getting an AuthorSort. I'll do the person-sort as I read through it properly.
I've got two weeks to get the Library Sorted, and then the iTunes sorted (which will probably take longer, as I'll have to sychronise five (possibly six) computers (one with two harddrives and different iTunes files in each) and three external harddrives. Having done that, I shall, of course, run the Duplicate File Finder (a remarkably fun little gadget which nevertheless manages to take up vast piles of time to run).
All this, and the computer I'm sorting this onto has been known to be playing silly buggers in recent history.
Fortunately, some of the book files I have already sorted and they now live cheerfully on another computer. And I mean sorted, here; complete with the hardcover version of the bookcovers.
Now, if only I could quell the worries about the Star Trek collection...
This happens especially when sorting through books which you can't quite remember if the title applies to a Marple or a Poirot or which section of the overall history of Star wars (I'm note-perfect in 3ABY through to 25ABY, the rest is a crapshoot) it belongs in. It doesn't bloody help that vast numbers of them have been written by Kevin J. Anderson or Jude Watson.
Or, of course, sifting through the DW. I've decided to stop trying to sort it according to Doctor and Companion unless I a) know for absolutely certain it's a particular Doctor (as in Snowfall or The War of Art) and Companion, or b) if I can see said Doctor on the cover (not very common with a lot of the NA series). Instead, it's getting an AuthorSort. I'll do the person-sort as I read through it properly.
I've got two weeks to get the Library Sorted, and then the iTunes sorted (which will probably take longer, as I'll have to sychronise five (possibly six) computers (one with two harddrives and different iTunes files in each) and three external harddrives. Having done that, I shall, of course, run the Duplicate File Finder (a remarkably fun little gadget which nevertheless manages to take up vast piles of time to run).
All this, and the computer I'm sorting this onto has been known to be playing silly buggers in recent history.
Fortunately, some of the book files I have already sorted and they now live cheerfully on another computer. And I mean sorted, here; complete with the hardcover version of the bookcovers.
Now, if only I could quell the worries about the Star Trek collection...