Linnea 'Ea' quilts...

So, I managed by April to read at least 25 books. That was my Goodreads challenge for this year , and unlike last year, I don't want to stress myself by changing the challenge to a larger number.  If you take into account that nearly all of these books have been read in the Amazon Kindle app, and thus also that I have bought them via Amazon, they represent how much money I've bought books for already this year. Since I'm still on child care welfare, the amount of money left for buying books is ridiculously low by now. And no, I don't have any savings left. The library and the net are the options left for me now...at least until the day I get a job. Out of these 27 books, " Love Minus Eighty" by Will McIntosh  is the one that's  going to be one of this year's most memorable books. I've had it on my Amazon wish list for 3 years now, and only went it suddenly went on sale for 3,71 dollars did I have the money to be able to buy it (I usually...

When I add books to the collections in my Librarything -account, the books pop up on  my Facebook-wall and here on my blog (in the left column). I think it's nifty that I can check which book I borrowed last from the library here on my blog, but I'm not so sure about Facebook. Or, if I'll be more precise, it's the "box" *  I find somewhat lacking. In settings. But I guess they're working hard on it, and Facebook isn't the friendliest platform to build software for. *   or whatever they want to call it, there's too many names for different parts of social network and databases nowadays. Gadgets, widgets, apps, boxes.... give me a break. On another book-related topic, I finally finally finally! got the book I'd requested from Turku city library. About that book... it's a pattern book, authored by this crochet designer whose designs I really like. Her name is Kristin Omdahl, and if you're on Ravelry you can find her and her designs ...

Ah, how a trip of 30 min in the library can turn into a few hours of reading bliss at home. I'll just put them up on my "Borrowed from the Library"-list on LibraryThing, and then I get to see if the same authors have any other interesting books. I so love reading. Especially things of "no great importance", to quote my dear father. Dancing shoes-bag, library books, and all the other things a girl has in her handbag. Above, said things, only wet. Meeh. Crappy photo, I know, but what can you do, when you get home at 20:30 and you're soaked from the slush-rain that decided to prolong winter for a few days more? I'm sorry books, I know you're wet, but I'll dry you right away. Nobody likes crinkly pages.

Oh, what a sad thing that you can only (!) add 200 books on the free account on LibraryThing. I'll have to upgrade mine and Micke's account to one with a lifetime membership, because when you look at it 200 books aren't really that much. Especially for us with 400+ books. Sad thing is, it'll have to wait until I can afford the 25 euros needed, but after that I'll ask for some help in adding the rest of the books. There's so many of them... and I want it done ASAP. And that would really go so much smoother if someone would care to help in crunching in the ISBN-numbers into the search-box.

And it will be a HUGE weekend project. Because I calculated that we must own close to 350 books, and if (and that's a big IF) you manage to find all the Swedish ones online you might still not get the right covers for them. That would mean uploading covers for the ones lacking, which will turn out into a mini-photo shoot. But still, I think it will be worth it. If someone wants to buy us books in the future, they can check online if we already have it. Which is kinda smart, I guess. And if we, for some reason or another, need a complete list of all we have (insurance reasons or so?) it will be easy to print one out.