Do You Have a List Of All Your Books?

Art Garfunkel has a website dedicated to listing every book he read and when
Art Garfunkel Official Site

A vast majority of my physical books are biographies of those in music, film, comedy, and to a lesser extent, politics and sports, which are ones I got early in life. I have a couple on geography or books from these book exchanges in Australia through the Couchsurfing travel community. A few language books I'll probably never check out again. In fact, the only time I read physical books was when I was on an airplane, train, etc.., and they're only taking space I don't have in this very tiny house. Most of my books are e-books. I've been in a rush to sell my physical books for many reasons, but also because of neck/shoulder pain, and also because I can increase the font on an e-book or Zoom in while I see it on my TV.

I do have a list, and will post more if others reply... I love finding older books, just for comparison, even if those artists weren't very popular. Some guys like Peckinpah is even more interesting than his movies! I have the physical and e-book of this Interviews series.

Another huge benefit of e-books is the Search function.. There's some people who I rarely know, but might want to read their mentions on a certain director, or certain keywords ('love', 'hate', 'best', etc).

Brando Unzipped (Darwin Porter)
Money players inside the new NBA (Armen Keteyian, Harvey Araton, Martin F. Dardis)
Van halen a Visual History 1978-1984 (Zlozower, Neil)
The American Cinema (Andrew Sarris)
To the Limit The Untold Story of the Eagles (Marc Eliot)
The Films In My Life (Francois Truffaut)
Led Zeppelin (Bob Spitz)
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life A Sortabiography (Eric Idle)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. Vol. 1 Films (Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast)
Long Train Runnin Our Story of The Doobie Brothers (Pat Simmons Tom Johnston)
Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling (Mark Minett)
Van Halen Rising How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal (Greg Renoff)
Hollywood Babylon (Kenneth Anger)
Where Did Our Love Go The Rise Fall of the Motown Sound (George Nelson)
The Led Zeppelin Saga (Davis, Stephen)
John Lennon Life Is What Happens Music, Memories Memorabilia (John M. Borack)
A Life in the Day Memories of Swinging London, Lots of Writing, The Beatles and My Beloved Wife (Davies Hunter)
Frank Capra The Catastrophe of Success (Joseph McBride)
Led Zeppelin All the Albums, All the Songs (Martin Popoff)
Conversations with Classic Film Stars Interviews from Hollywoods Golden Era (Bawden, JamesMiller, Ron)
Ancient Mesopotamia Life in the Cradle of Civilization - Guidebook - The Great Courses - TTC (Amanda H. Podany PhD)
The Anarchy of the Imagination Interviews, Essays, Notes ( etc.)
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People (Lenny Bruce) (78:39)
The Films of Roberto Rossellini (Cambridge Film Classics) (Peter Bondanella)
The Recording Engineers Handbook (Bobby Owsinski)
Bring It On Home Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond–The Story of Rock’s Greatest Manager (Mark Blake)
Crazy from the Heat (David Lee Roth)
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People (Lenny Bruce)
The Stone Age Sixty Years of The Rolling Stones (Lesley-Ann Jones)
Angela Davis An Autobiography (Angela Y. Davis)
Swanson on Swanson (Gloria Swanson)
Lennon in America 1971-1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries (Geoffery Giuliano)
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Ilan Pappe)
A Modern Man (George Carlin)
Conversations with Classic Film Stars Interviews from Hollywoods Golden Era (Bawden, JamesMiller, Ron)
Reel Conversations Candid Interviews With Films Foremost Directors and Critics (George Hickenlooper)
Hitler (Ian Kershaw)
David Lee Roth - Eat Em And Smile Band Score (David Lee Roth)
Me Stories of My Life (Katharine Hepburn)
What Is Cinema (André Bazin)
Interviews with Film Directors (Andrew Sarris)
Lets Spend the Night Together Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies (Pamela Des Barres)
The Last Sultan The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun (Greenfield, Robert)
John Ford The Man and His Films (Tag Gallagher)
Van Halen Rising How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal (Greg Renoff)
Traveling Music Playing Back the Soundtrack to My Life and Times (Neil Peart)
The Great Erasure The Reconstruction of White Identity (Richard B. Spencer (ed.))
Last Words A Memoir (George Carlin, Tony Hendra)
Andrei Tarkovsky Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) (John Gianvito)
Esoteric Hollywood II More Sex, Cults Symbols in Film (Jay Dyer)
Last Man Standing Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy
-Bowie- David- Leigh- Wendy- Bowie the biography-b-ok.org-
Hitler (Ian Kershaw)
The History of Rock Roll, Volume 2 (Ed Ward)
The 100 Best Movies Youve Never Seen (Richard Crouse)
How Sweet It is The Jackie Gleason Story (James Bacon)
The Comedians Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy (Nesteroff, Kliph)
Led Zeppelin on Led

 

I use to

 

I have bookshelves and know exactly what is there and where they are on the shelves.

 

Been there! I now have a policy of donating to charity books that have not been read for a long time or were bought as reference to something I was researching. It's not quite one in, one out but it is a start.

 

I dont really have any books.........

 

Ohio library showcases late man's massive reading list with thousands of books

CBS On the Road

 

Nice list. Great reading.

 

I don't have nearly as many books as when I was a kid. I got 4 new ones recently. I have 32 so far, and not much room for many more.

 

I have bookshelves.......full of books..........wich i read,some ones,some multiple times............

But these days i read more interwebz(bs).........then books ......*sigh*

No time/rest/peace of mind(work).......to read a good book

Mzzls

Ps. to find some peace, i thought i would reread some Thea Beckman Books again(youth sentiment/history/philosophy)

 

I just love the feel of books, their smell, the turning of the pages, putting a bookmark in ........everything. I have tried reading on screen. There is no enjoyment at all.

 

I completely agree. Hard copy means something much more than any screen will ever offer.

 

As I was packing to move after 25 years in my house, I made a spreadsheet of everything that was packed into each box, my books got their own itemized spreadsheets. The first one was a description and number of the box, where it was being stored and a general category of the types of books inside since I tried to keep similar topics together (fiction alphabetized by author), as well as how many books were in each box. The second was the information of each book in the box, including; the title of the book, the author, the publisher and the copyright date. At the time that I packed them my book count was 836, sorted into 39 boxes. I wish I had kept a list of every book I have ever read or owned but I haven't. I know at one time I was close to owning 3000 books but I had to get rid of a lot of them as my kids grew and needed more space in the house. I dream of building a small personal library on my property where I live now. I have begun reading digital books to save space and money since I only have a camper that I am living out of right now and everything that isn't 100% necessary is still being stored off site. I don't particularly care for reading digitally but it's better than not reading at all.