I thought 'Lost' was only on ABC...

[kickaha]

Well, we lost one box in the move, apparently. Box #222, almost certainly with my books in it. I inventoried boxes 220, 221, 223 and 224 to try and give them an idea of what value that box had.

A couple of things pop out: 1) I am a geek. This is widely known already, but three of those four boxes were math, physics, and compsci books. The fourth was 91 assorted scifi and fantasy paperbacks. 2) They oughta be damned happy they didn't lose #224. That was the one with my first edition T. H. White's _The Sword in the Stone_ (Illustrated, no less.) *and* my second edition The Fellowship of the Ring, Book 1. I know I should be more upset about the loss, but to be honest, I can't seem to think of anything obvious missing while scanning my shelves.

I do know that I'm going to be doing a solid inventory and assessment RSH. I've got some gems in there I should get appraised for insurance purposes.

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[badger.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the missing box, and the nagging "what was in it?" feeling that bugs me in similar circumstances.

I've been using Delicious Library for the DVDs, like DL a great deal overall, and may well attack the books with it as well. Want to get some shelves into the library and do some physical organization of the collections first, though, although I admit that may be simple procrastination on my part.

RPGs I'm going to have to catalog essentially by hand, but may do so into either Delicious Library or LibraryThing. That's a largely static collection, though, and once done is likely to stay generally constant with occasional trickles. LibraryThing I'm currently testing to see if I like it or not.

http://www.delicious-monster.com/

http://www.librarything.com/

I don't think either DL or LT address comics particularly well, and while I have just under half the amount you do (call it 9 full long boxes), I don't have an answer for the comics yet past sorting and an ASCII text file. Which would, at least, be better than nothing.

The larger (than the DVDs, although not close in estimated scope to the books) problem of the CDs will be addressed by CDDB and the multiple-drive-rip-to-lossless-format-with-RAID system I hope to build this year. (Currently I do at least have a list of all the CDs in an HTML table online, hosted offsite, and for insurance purposes. I started the list when I had only a hundred or so CDs, and have kept the list up-to-date. )

This metafilter thread on organizing books has more (to me) noise than signal, but some ideas as well.
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/31462

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[gilthalas.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your missing box too. More complaining to IBM is required.

Also, I haven't confirmed this, but the one problem about comics is that their barcodes aren't very detailed - i.e. X-Men 150 and X-Men 151 have the same barcode (once again, I haven't confirmed this). So, even if they could be scanned in and searched on, the amount of information would be very limited.

I agree about DL though - I've played with the demo and am very impressed. Once day I will purchase a copy :)