kerravonsen | Books Books Books

Oh, me tired.
Dad did come by this afternoon, with drill, and we put the rest of the pine shelves together, outside in the courtyard in the semi-sun.
Then I did another coat of estapol, and later when it was touch dry I moved it inside because of paranoid fear that if I left it outside it would get rained on. Well, it would have gotten dewed on anyway, which wouldn't have been good for it either.

So, more book reshelving + cataloguing in new black bookcase. Got to the end of the B's.
Then ran around like Durriman's donkey, trying to decide where books would go after black bookcase full, also trying to decide whether I should put normal books in its very tall bottom shelf or put tall books. Eventually I moved some tall books there, and moved other books out of another bookcase, they're all on the floor in the hall. (sigh)

Now that I've got books all over the floor, I'm not sure if I'd rather just shelve them and be done with it, or insist that no book should be shelved until it's catalogued. (sigh) Could take loooooong time. On the other hand, books lying around is motivation to get it done. On the third hand, books lying around is motivation to forget cataloguing and just shelve. (sigh)

Been winnowing things too. I just discovered that I had two copies of "Komarr" and "A Civil Campaign", so the hardbacks are now in the book-box. Though it's a wrench to part with the hardback of Komarr because it has such a nice cover (not the same as the paperback cover). I tell myself that I have the book there to read, not to look at the cover of, and for that purpose, a paperback is better. I'm still torn.
Mind you, the covers of the Vorkosigan books have varied wildly -- some are so completely unlike what the book is about that you wonder what on earth it was they told the artist. Doubly difficult when there have been some rather nice ones which unfortunately have someone who is meant to be Miles, who either (a) is tall and comely or (b) is the right stature but looks like he's twenty years older than Miles is meant to be.
Okay, I'm keeping it! It has Miles looking like he oughta, facing Ekaterin (both in profile), with Komarr as background. Very nice.