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x I'm glad you're having fun with your Kindle!! It makes sense to make a seperate TBR list for Kindle, especially for those Kindle free ebooks (such as free classics or some books by indie authors). My TBR contains all my books but I can easily see if it's a paperbook or Kindle book (I also know it usually but okay). Do you aim to get your TBR further down? x x Me too! When I was a child, my sister and I used to pretend we were going to the library, borrowing each other's books (not fully reading them, though). I'm not sure if she remembers it or if it meant much to her but I always loved doing that.

As per frankie's suggestion I've now set aside some (old) notebooks for book lists. - One for my wishlist - One for books I own - One for my reading dates I've only written a few pages in the wishlist' one, I haven't yet written anything yet in the other ones. It might take a while and I don't know if I'll keep it up but when I'm in the mood and have the energy it can be nice to do something like this, book related but not reading (I might look into other bookish sites and decide to update my profile as I'm writing down the books I own, or something. Will have to see..). EDIT: For anyone who's confused, I have all the information digitally (on GoodReads or Book Collector) but not on paper.

The images I attach are normally 100-200 kB in size. The forum says the maximum allowed, when I am posting, is 16 MB so I don't know if that's it. Worth a try, though, to check up on it.

Awww . We had some fireworks here too recently and the dogs got scared. Stupid people ><. Our little chicken are doing well, I should really post some updates photos. The thing is, I've been too tired to take a lot of photos . The older little chicken, that were outside, have now access to the goats' and other chickens' area and that seems to be going allright.

Temple Grandin - Animals Make Us Human: Creating a Better Life for Animals Genre: Information Format: Kindle Pages: 342 Synopsis (GoodReads): The best-selling animal advocate Temple Grandin offers the most exciting exploration of how animals feel since The Hidden Life of Dogs. In her groundbreaking and best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her distinguished career as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel.Now she builds on those insights to show us how to give our animals the best and happiest life—on their terms, not ours. It's usually easy to pinpoint the cause of physical pain in animals, but to know what is causing them emotional distress is much harder. Drawing on the latest research and her own work, Grandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals.Then she explains how to fulfill them for dogs and cats, horses, farm animals, and zoo animals. Whether it's how to make the healthiest environment for the dog you must leave alone most of the day, how to keep pigs from being bored, or how to know if the lion pacing in the zoo is miserable or just exercising, Grandin teaches us to challenge our assumptions about animal contentment and honor our bond with our fellow creatures. Animals Make Us Human is the culmination of almost thirty years of research, experimentation, and experience. This is essential reading for anyone who's ever owned, cared for, or simply cared about an animal My thoughts: If I remember correctly, this is one of the first few Kindle books I bought. It was on a Daily Deal so I thought I'd give it a go. The book consists of nine chapters. The first one is titled Introduction and talks about the different research that's happened, of many different animals. It also talks about the four systems in animals, FEAR, RAGE, PANIC and SEEKING (along with a few minor systems). I thought this chapter was quite interesting. The other chapters are about a variety of animals: dogs, cats, cows, horses, pigs, and chicken and other poultry. The last two chapters are about wildlife, and about zoos. I thought it was quite interesting to read. Some chapters I got more out of than others, for example I already know a lot of things about dogs, so I learned more from ie. the chapter about cows because I didn't know much about taking care of cows. It wasn't not a fast read for me due to the information you have to digest, but it reads relatively allright. One thing I had problems with were a few of the words used (in relation to animal caretaking) that the Kindle British dictionary seemed to not know. I think they are American (slang?) words, such as stockperson (unknown in the dictionary) or poachers (the dictionary only mentioned a pan to make eggs with). Generally I could work out the meaning from the text, though. All in all I think it was an interesting book to read. Since I have my Kindle, I've been reading more information books and really am quite enjoying doing so (even if a lot of them are relatively easy to read for me and they're not full of technical language). I used to read a lot of information books when I was a child but then stopped doing so as I felt I knew a lot of things already (among other reasons). Or perhaps school was too much information already so I didn't have any energy leftover for fun books. Rating: **** (8/10)

Ex Libris and Rereadings are going on the wishlist, thanks willoyd .

What format would be LibraryThing list be in? I think if you can get a list from the ISBN's you can put all of those in, but depending on how you want it organised you may still have to fill in some things yourself. Ie. I like to fill in the country of origin of the author, this information is often missing. Some books are given 'subjects', which I usually remove and put my own things in there (sometimes leaving it blank as I wouldn't know because I haven't yet read it). I understand the prospect of filling in all your books is very daunting (and you have a lot of them!). I enjoy doing these kinds of things but you have a lot more books than me.. I should mention, there exists an app for Android and iOS phones that lets you scan the ISBNs of books and then export them to the computer (or to email, text file, etc). Here's a link to their main website. If you click on Book Collector (accompanied by the blue and purple round icon) (link) you should be able to see some screenshots. One thing I really like about it is the statistics feature. You can see many different statistics of your collection (ie. graphs of which publishers you have books of, which shops you buy at, your ratings, and much more). If you like, I'd be happy to make some screenshots for you. You can also upload most of your collection online (though not completely all of the data you've filled in carries with I think), it's nice for a backup (manually backing up the files is safest and so I do both). So in short, I think you may be able to carry over the ISBNs possibly, but some of the information might need a manual hand depending on how precise you want to be. For example, when a book is part of a series, I want its title to be SeriesName X: Title. So most of the time the titles have to be edited to get them to be what I want. For ebooks, the program can scan folders on your computer and read the authors and titles from the files it finds. I don't think you have any ebooks or an ereader though, so this feature probably isn't useful for you. I hope this information helps, maybe Kylie knows more. It's free to download a trial of the program (it gives you a coupon to get the program for a bit cheaper, too), so if you're ever feeling bored or anything you could always give it a go.

Willoyd, that's a beautiful cover! @ posting photos I can attach up to three photos in a post, not more.

I hope you like your Paperwhite! I like mine a lot. I still prefer paper books but the Kindle is very easy for travelling and I love the light of the Paperwhite, it makes reading when there's not so much light, much easier. On the Kindle I mainly read non-fiction (so I can easily mark them or look up words), free ebooks and books only available in ebook (but sometimes there's the Daily or Monthly Deal and I can't resist..). I didn't think I'd like the Kindle as much as I do, so I hope you enjoy yours . EDIT: Nice haul, I hope you enjoy your new books. I really liked In Cold Blood when I read it for English class in school (not sure how I'd feel about it now, I'd have to read it again to find out!). I'm glad you're having fun on your holiday .

I'm glad to hear the medication helps you . I hope you have fun sorting out your books!

Nice review ! Though I think I'll buy War of the Worlds or The Island of Dr. Moreau before I'd buy this one (because you liked those more) (I already own The Time Machine).

I think it's okay to make it sound a bit like the historical period, but I would like to still understand what's being said. I have this problem sometimes with books trying to portray accents, I just don't always get what's meant. It'd be okay to write down the full words, but I don't like it when words are being written in a different way or apostrophes are used to abbreviate a word. In these cases I often get confused because of the way my mind works.

Whatever works for you Pops ! Your books probably look very pretty together and as long as you can find things.. I know some people who have a specific shelf or area with TBR books versus shelves with books they've read. We all do different things based on what we like, I think that's nice. (P. S. I'd love to see some photos sometime of your colourful books. I loved the one you posted a while ago.)

x It is odd, if you like I can take my own photo but it'd take a bit of time as I'd have to find it first (it's on the literature shelves but where exactly I'm not sure. I recently rearranged them so I'm not used to the new layout yet). Truthfully, seeing all the covers on Google confused me and now I'm not 100% sure anymore what exactly mine looks like.. Yeah the forum only allows you to post a couple I think, I guess it's to prevent people from spamming? I can only attach / display three photos.

There's quite a few of those that I've either read and loved or that are on my TBR or wishlist. It looks like a great list! I'll have to check out some of the ones I haven't heard of, sometime .

That's a pretty cover ! I tried to find a picture of my cover, but I couldn't find a right one. It's a Wordsworth Classics one, but I can't find the right cover for it. I love book parcels. I hope you enjoy yours . P.S. The images above that you posted, are really beautiful!

A recent thread inspired me to see if we had an old thread on this topic, and so we do! I arrange my books by genre. Then, it depends on what fits where, ie. some shelves are higher than others and so the bigger books go in the bigger shelves. Generally for any genre, I see which authors I have the biggest amount of books of, so I'm certain to put those together on one shelf (so that the author's work is all on the same shelf). Then I work out the leftover spaces (if any) and the space on top (if any). Usually all the books of one author are together (or as together as I can make them), but the order depends. For fantasy and science-fiction it's usually based on series, ie. the prequel comes before the main series (so chronologically). Sometimes I organise based on publication order, sometimes based on colour, sometimes based on what fits, sometimes based on size (if sizes differ) and sometimes based on which one I bought first or read first. Hmm I realise that makes me sound a bit unorganised ! If I had a lot more space I'd do it differently, but there sometimes isn't enough space to display everything neatly (I'd love to have a big library with everything neatly organisable). I try to put books with a similar theme together (ie. family) though only if there is the space for it, which there often isn't. My historical fiction books are organised based on time period for a part of it (so the books that are about the earliest time period, first on the left). Then I ran out of space so just put the rest where it fit. Anyone else who wants to add anything (maybe someone who hasn't replied yet to this thread)?

Wow, pretty cheap!! I hope you enjoy your new books .

*high five*!

Welcome back Laura ! I'm glad they've found out what's wrong. I hope that you're feeling better.

So.. the Tesla S has arrived! I've been for a drive earlier, sitting in the passenger seat and in the back seat. The seats are quite comfortable. The car looks amazing, I love the dark reddish colour. There is plenty of boot space, front and back. The car is fast (0-100 km/h (or 60 mph) in 4.0s IIRC, in fact I prefer we don't accelerate too fast XD) and quite quiet (I love that!). The dashboard screen is very clear and has a lot of technological features. We have the Signature Edition and also the P85+ package (which means we have a slightly better engine and more range). Here are some of the features I remember: - The front seats can be adjusted electronically in several different ways and can also be heated - You can adjust where the sound is coming from - You can phone wireless by connecting your phone with Bluetooth - You can navigate somewhere (sat nav) - You can open and close the roof electronically - You can listen to the radio or internet radio using 3G (free for the first year, I'm not sure what happens after that tbh), the display will tell you which song is playing. I don't listen to much music but my parents might like this. You can also listen to media from your phone (if connected with Bluetooth) or you can plug in a USB-stick. - You can browse the internet using 3G - The car has a camera at the back so you can see what's behind you - And more, my dad showed me a lot of things but I don't remember them all!

Moby Dick is on my TBR, I bought it because of the good things I've heard about it (plus, Matilda in the film Matilda reads it, can't remember if it's also in the book or not). x x Congrats, that's excellent!

Wow Brian, that's pretty brave! I don't think I could easily do it, I love the feel and look of my physical books. I love to look at my book cases. You just don't get that with an e-reader, or if you borrow the books. If you decide to do it though, I wish you luck and strength. It must be difficult but it's probably nicer to have a lesser cluttered place (the amount of clutter a person prefers over another person, differs per person I've read, so it's really up to you.).

x I have The Mists of Avalon in Dutch, I really liked the book when I read it, when I was a teenager, but a few years ago I watched the TV series and didn't like the story as much (of course, the book might be better than the TV series and have different emphases). I'm not sure if I'll want to buy the book in English at some point, whether I'll still like it or not. Well, maybe if I find it cheap sometime.. I hope you enjoy your books, anyway! x x I find it lots of fun! It'll take time at the beginning but personally I enjoy doing things like that! I used to have profiles with several different sites but gave up on updating them all. Now I just use GoodReads (and mainly, a database program on the computer, Book Collector, which has the most accurate information). I might still use some of the other sites at some point. I liked LibraryThing's statistics but found GoodReads easier to use and most of my friends are on GR. Also LT often doesn't have my Dutch books or the right edition and I often need to edit a title or author because it's not correct. But LT also has things GR doesn't have so it's a personal preference. I love Book Collector, that program has been really useful. Anyway, have fun if you decide to catalogue your books . EDIT: Congrats on getting your TBR to below 700!

I'm not 100% sure what you mean by extendable dog lead, Pops, but it must be annoying what you describe! When we walk our dogs, we never let them get close to strangers, we always keep them close to us when there's other people. Not that they wouldn't behave themselves, but we think it's the right and polite thing to do. I'm sorry to hear the people aren't that polite where you live and walk . It makes sense how you feel, I would find that experience annoying too. @ Janet I'm sorry to hear the experience wasn't for you. The dog on the photo looks very beautiful.