Bibliomania!

It's true, I finally did it. I joined LibraryThing.com! You can check out some of the books in my library over on the right side of the blog. Instead of adding to my virtual library the books that make up my real library, I've decided to add the books I read as I read them. Right now it has 30 books, because so far in 2007 I've read thirty books. I've been writing them down on a list in my planner and was starting to feel a sense of accomplishment until I typed them in here. Typing in thirty books didn't take that long. And then, looking around at other people's libraries, mine seemed kinda, well, small. Of course, they are usually writing down all the books they own in their real library, but still. I think I suffer from bibliomania. Okay, on second thought not really, because I just read the Wikipedia entry and this doesn't sound like me:

"Bibliomania is an obsessive-compulsive disorder involving the collecting or hoarding of books to the point where social relations or health are damaged."

Well, I think my social relations and health are doing alright. But... OH NO!

"...bibliomania is characterized by the collecting of books which have no use to the collector nor any great intrinsic value to a genuine book collector."

Sometimes I come across books that have no use to me, and no value to a book collector, like, um....

VOYAGE TO RADOS


Yeah, it's a Barbie book where she goes to space. I have to admit, I still haven't even read it, but the images are something to behold. "Outer Space" is very pink and very sparkly. Okay, maybe it does have some use to me (entertainment).

Man, there are some scary book-related conditions that could be afflicting me:

bibliophagy (book-eating)
bibliokleptomaia (book-stealing)
bibliotaphy (book-burying)

Book burying?! Not to offend those out there suffering from bibliotaphy, but that is weird! I might not mind suffering from bibliophagy, as long as the book looks like this: