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New Addiction

18 August 2008, 11:05 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under Geekery, Reading.

Whoops! What have I done to myself?

I was frus­trated that there were a fair num­ber of books on my “shelves” at Good Reads that had no asso­ci­ated cover image. I col­lected all but, I think, two of the cover images for the books I had listed in Now Read­ing, but couldn’t find a way to make use of them at GR. I also found a lot of incon­sis­ten­cies in the way titles were rep­re­sented, and some mis­spelled author’s names.

Then I noticed a link about apply­ing to be a librar­ian. They’re the peo­ple who can edit author and book infor­ma­tion. Cool! I applied, fig­ur­ing they’d tell me I haven’t been active long enough or some­thing, but not­ing that this is one endeavor in which OCD is an asset.

Oddly enough, they approved me.

This may not be a power I should have. I’ve spent a ridicu­lous amount of my awake time today nor­mal­iz­ing data their data. And enjoy­ing it.

 

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