Buying books is hard
13/2/06 14:50![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlectomyCollection development seems like so much fun. It's your job to buy books! I am SO good at that!
But now I have to pick out 9 books and 9 non-books in the area of music, published between 2004 and 2006, and... whew. I have to write 10 pages in less than a week, and so far I've looked at 90 books and pulled out 30-40 books that I need to consider...and there are over 1200 I still need to look at.
Who knew so much could be written about music? And it's all stuff you'd think a public library should have: rock criticism, punk histories, bios and interviews of famous musicians, a books about the politics of country music. A history of death metal. (Who doesn't need a history of death metal?)
...I guess I'll get to 200 or 250 in the list, counting children's books, news bits, and music-related fiction that the search brought up, and then have an initial list of 100-125 that I can start culling down.
At least the non-books should be easier--a couple of retrospective box sets from important musicians, maybe a CD-ROM or DVD or two, and I should be okay.
(But really. 10 pages in a week...)
But now I have to pick out 9 books and 9 non-books in the area of music, published between 2004 and 2006, and... whew. I have to write 10 pages in less than a week, and so far I've looked at 90 books and pulled out 30-40 books that I need to consider...and there are over 1200 I still need to look at.
Who knew so much could be written about music? And it's all stuff you'd think a public library should have: rock criticism, punk histories, bios and interviews of famous musicians, a books about the politics of country music. A history of death metal. (Who doesn't need a history of death metal?)
...I guess I'll get to 200 or 250 in the list, counting children's books, news bits, and music-related fiction that the search brought up, and then have an initial list of 100-125 that I can start culling down.
At least the non-books should be easier--a couple of retrospective box sets from important musicians, maybe a CD-ROM or DVD or two, and I should be okay.
(But really. 10 pages in a week...)
