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February 17, 2004
Quite Probably Another Nerdy Victory
It took a while, but I managed to get a couple of MovableType plugins -- MTAmazon and BookQueue -- and and running on this installation. So now, with a small amount of tweaking, I can maintain a list of books on queue on my bookshelves or in my mind.
This is far more interesting to me than to any of you, because I was looking for a way to flag books as "I want to read this" short of my current method (laying them on their sides on the shelves, which does not work for books I don't own). But now you can all (erm, all three of you) have a view into my book-mind. Also, you can see how slowly I read when I'm trying to teach myself abstract math.
All I need to do now is extend BookQueue to include a comments area, so I can write little notes to myself about why I was interested in reading or re-reading a particular book, and also a flag for "owned" so I can remember whether I've bought a book I was interested in. I'd also like to be able to sort by author name or genre, but that's sort of unimportant if I've got everything else.
Posted by ayse on 02/17/04 at 11:38 PM
Wow, I love the BookQueue. I need one of those. How long do you think it will take you to get through all the books on your list?
btw, I scrolled down the entire list quickly and I did a double take when
The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers
appeared to me as "A Guide for Friction Writers".
:-)
BookQueue is great, as is MovableType. I've been very happy with it since I installed it, although it has twice caused other people's incredibly delicate Perl scripts to keel over dead. That's what they get for making non-standard Perl installations, I say.
As for my leetle list, I'll probably be through the books on the list that I own in the next month, unless I get sidetracked (by, um, the stack of 12 books I picked up at the thrift store today). A lot of those are books I heard about from somebody and want to look into, rather than books actually sitting around waiting to be read.
I actually bought Joy of Writing Sex because I also thought it said "friction" and I thought it was funny. Then it turned out that not only do I have a filthy mind, but it's a good book. Good to see I'm in good company. :)