Jul 23 2008
Where now?
I’ve finished the course that necessitated the creation of this blog, but I want to continue / start? sharing my thoughts—the ones that seem so interesting to me as I lie awake at night and slip my mind when I sit down to a computer. I think I want to talk about books and the themes that connect them. I’ve been playing with LibraryThing and trying to decide if I want to include books that I have read, but don’t own. Or books that, having read them, I no longer need to own. Using this blog for bad books means I can save LibraryThing for the good stuff. Of course, then this blog becomes a source of cautionary reviews and that doesn’t seem fair either. But if I put everything that I really like in three places—here, LibraryThing, and my wiki, Not Just for the Young—then I risk having the same control problems that make spreadseet-style databases so much worse than Access-type databases: I.e., if you list the same address for each member of a family and they move, you have to make changes in more than one location.
Mood: perplexed.
