The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
As you both probably know, I maintain a web page about myself, that is (if possible) even less interesting than this journal. On this list I maintain a page listing all of my books, which is machine-generated from a database which I maintain using some home-brewed software. One thing that’s bothered me about the system for some time is that it never captured the contents of any of my anthologies or omnibuses, so I recently worked that feature into my system. Now I have left the task of actually putting in all that data, and without having all the books in front of me, there’s a bit of guesswork and a lot of research involved in the process. So far I’ve finished the “K” page:
http://finkel.org/avi/books/k.html
I started there because I knew for sure I had at least one Damon Knight collection, and it turned out I also have a ton of Stephen King collections, and one enormous collection of Kornbluth’s complete short fiction (which is a fantastic book, by the way.)
I hope over the next few weeks to get the rest of them done. I am not really sure why though. Massive nerdiness, I guess.