8 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

When you still had your 3000-book hardcover collection, did you think of yourself as a part-time librarian?

 

Yes, I did. I would often sit down and think up new ways to organize the books.

 

8 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Also, what happened to those books?

 

I had them put in storage like all my belongings before I came to Thailand. 

8 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

And, how were they arranged and categorized.

 

I used a thematic system. For instance all the Psychology and Psychoanalysis books together, history together, philosophy, literature, social anthropoogy, music, explorer literature, dictionaries, erotic literature, and so on.

 

Within those categories I would then use a national system, so English history, Spanish history, American history and so on, German philosophy, French  philosophy, Indian philosophy, Japanese philosophy etc.

 

Within those sometimes there would be further sub categories, for instance in English literature I would group poetry separately from novels.

 

At one point I got an app that could scan books and thus database them, but it was too much work, I could not keep it up. Too many books.

 

They are still sitting in boxes in a garage in the homeland now.

 

Like you I also would have preferred hardwood cases. But given the number of bookcases I needed and due to the fact I wanted some with doors, in the end I chose the Ikea book cases with doors. They look like wood. I was never that happy with them though, as that Ikea look is too cheap for a proper library. But they did the job and it was a cost decision in the end.

 

From your questions I gather  you are a fellow bibliophile?

Not an Amazon fan but until I find something that works as well as a kindle. 

Old first gen Paperlite, works but battery needs to be charged more frequently. Mobi was the format most easily accepted for sideloaded (non Amazon) books.

New Paperlite is great, charge lasts weeks. 32 G  storage.  However does not accept Mobi format.   Epub is its preferred format for sideloaded (non amazon) books.

Both have problems dealing with PDF formats ... the old one was better than the new. 

 

I read less now,  age I assume. I have to program it in my day or as often as not, doesn't happen. That has never been the case before.  

18 hours ago, jcmj said:

Where is a good book store in Pattaya with a good selection? I know of the used place but trying to find another place that may be able to order a book if they don’t have what I’m looking for. 

Canterbury tales??

19 hours ago, Photoguy21 said:

Yes but they are mostly engineering or scientific books

so not in your intelligence range.

Those kind of books are for academic type people not people who live in the Nirun or Flybird in Pattaya !

They are what I describe as "beautiful" books for people like me who have an interest in statistics etc ...thankyou !!!

1 hour ago, georgegeorgia said:

so not in your intelligence range.

Those kind of books are for academic type people not people who live in the Nirun or Flybird in Pattaya !

They are what I describe as "beautiful" books for people like me who have an interest in statistics etc ...thankyou !!!

I don't live in Pattaya and never want to. I agree in Pattaya they are not the sort of reading matter which is generally consumed. THey are however in my intelligence scope.