Posted by Brenda is Cool on 2005-05-29 00:50:09
Post Subject: Clip Art
Hellooo,
I frequent an art wherehouse a lot in Long Beach, where i get great discounts on a lot of supplies. I always see clip art books there. I like a lot of the pictures in there, they offer anything and everything, but I was wondering how would I use these? Any ideas?
Posted by Brenda is Cool on 2005-05-30 00:29:15
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That is a good idea. For those who don't know, clip art books are like coloring books. Except there are plenty of pictures, symbols, and so much more to choose from (medieval imagery, victorian, aztec, etc.)
Collages do seem like a good idea. I'm even thinking along the lines of making my own tarot cards. I'll make copies of the the clip art, color, and paste it.
I'll share with everyone what I've made once I get to it.
Posted by Catana on 2005-01-06 20:14:17
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I love the Dover clip art books. I knew they had a website, but didn't know they gave away anything for free. Much thanks. Definitely going to check it out.
Posted by boheme-anne on 2005-01-30 12:28:59
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I can't recal any movies I've seen in the theater that really knocked my socks off. I have a strange taste though. I rented Hero, thought that was nicely done. I really wanted to rent "Forgotten" last night but it was all out. I love Julianne Moore, I wish I was her.
I'm looking forward to my actual night out though. My husband and I are going to Wilkes Barre to see John Cocker at the Kirby Center Feb. 13th. I have a funny feeling our tickets are going to be sucky...but I'm sure it'll be a great show. We are going to go to the Olive Garden and then to "the hub" which is a shopping center down that way with stores I never get to go to. I will be going to Barnes and Noble, I'm drooling already about the Art books there. At least I have something to look forward to. God I hope it doesn't snow!!!
Posted by erinina on 2006-05-29 22:49:03
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i am an illustrator/designer more than a crafter, but i do have a whole half room devoted to creativity!
1. my watercolor crayons
2. my varying-width pens - especially the black and brown
3. my vintage fabric scraps and samples
4. my gigunda collection of art books, children's books, and project books (that i've done) for inspiration
5. a trillion scetchbooks - some filled, some partailly-filled, and a few empty and ready for me to take wherever i'm going next
Posted by nataxia on 2005-02-24 15:09:05
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-my birthday! (today!)
Happy Birthday!
*birthdays
*cake
*my gatos
*sunrises & sunsets
*COFFEE
*vintage fabrics
*the first spring flowers
*coloured pencils
*dying my hair
*pink cupcakes
*hearing music for the first time
*the world
*getting good mail
*big fat art books
*big black stomping boots
*pigtails
*sleeping in
Posted by for_esme on 2005-10-06 23:34:54
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i always get irritated when i check out library books that have been written in or highlighted. the highlighting is never helpful to me and i think it's disrespectful to do that in library books.
my own books are a different story... unless they're expensive/rare/really nicely printed art books, i write in them (or more accurately, i underline). i'm glad later on when i can find passages easily that i wanted to remember or reference.
Posted by for_esme on 2006-01-08 17:21:32
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art books! though they're still sometimes expensive used, they can be much cheaper than buying them new. i like library book sales, often at the smaller branches here they don't weed out really nice or out-of-print books to charge more (like many used bookstores do).
Posted by h_pets360 on 2006-01-11 01:56:42
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craft books, art books, how to books, poetry by my favorite authors, books on politics and feminism ... if it holds still long enough i'll read it. if it's really good, i'll pass it on to friends. if it's not, i'll donate it.
portland's a great place for book lovers.
Posted by lizzymahoney on 2005-09-26 00:58:49
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Oh yeah, my best used book score evah was of mostly philosophy but some art books, some music. There was this tiny Byzantine rite Catholic church and rectory being torn down for an expressway. The library was abandoned. I probably picked up a couple hundred books there, but gave over half to a tiny little used book shop I liked. Lost a bunch of the philosophy in a non-divorce.
Posted by anthrogirl on 2006-02-02 08:07:35
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There are a lot of ethnic restaurants in New York City, and many of them are inexpensive. It's a great way to 'travel' around the world without leaving home.
Actually, you can afford artbooks- go to alibris.com or any of the used books websites. There are a lot of affordable art books out there.
In Manhattan, some of the museums have free days or evenings, and many of them have suggested donations, which means you can just give what you want. Museum meberships are also a great way of saving money, if you go a lot. I go to the Met more often now, because I have a membership.
My cheapest way of having fun is cooking- which is also very healthy. I get the joy three ways- from saving on eating out, enjoying the pleasure that cooking brings, and feeling better about myself because I've eaten a decent meal.
Posted by anthrogirl on 2006-11-02 14:12:17
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I've started organizing, but I have to wait so I can make room for the BF's books. Right now all of the cookbooks are together; ditto the books on Asia. There's a folklore section. My anthro books are in my office space. My porn is all in one spot. The art books are beginning to gather in one area.
Posted by lilymaid on 2006-02-03 12:19:26
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I have been accused of being a bit obessive over the catagorisation of my books, but I find it very helpful, most of the time. I alphabetize them and arrange them according to category: novels, fantasy novels, horror novels, books on how to do things (stitchery, et cetera), cookery books and reference books on food, history books, theology books, books on natural history, mythology and folklore, plays, poetry, art books, and reference. We keep the how to do things ones in the "studio". I try to keep the antique ones in more safe and out-of-the-way places.
We have them wherever they'll fit. :) I'm afraid they take up most available space in our tiny little house.
Posted by Schmatta on 2005-12-05 15:45:11
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Stolen by gypsies at an early age, I was not allowed to collect anything. Once free of their control, I began collecting like mad. But I found that my good stuff got lost in the "just because I can keep it" stuff. So last year I de-accessioned in a dramatic way. Donated about 500 books, keeping only the very best.
Buddhist books go on one shelf, cookbooks in another. Play scripts and poetry side by side. In the living room, all the pretty art books and substantial hardback tomes. Biographies together. Of course there also comes a time when the ones that don't fit are arranged by size. Then there's a shelf called "help yourself, I don't want these anymore," great for guests.
Posted by kdaum on 2005-07-25 13:35:31
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I have what you could call a collection of the "Classics" all in paperback form. I picked them up at used bookstores and of course some of them are from my English Lit. classes high school and college. All of them are alphabetical by title in an antique bookcase in my bedroom. Those that don't fit have spilled over onto the floor next to it.
All of my crafty/quilting/art books are in my studio on a bookcase and not really categorized at all.
I do have some random books, that are on my living room bookcase. These are more for show, although I have read them and do pick them up when I am bored. Things like Edward Gorey's "Amphigorey", Tim Burton's "Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy", Art History Textbooks, etc.
Posted by craftfetish on 2006-01-20 09:55:55
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I like to reorganize my books as a way to procrastinate cleaning my room. Cookbooks in the kitchen. Active reading on any available surface that my dog can't reach. Borrowed books in a stack where they may someday reunite with their owners. Chick lit, poems and other short and/or fluffy reading in a basket on my night stand for bedtime reading. Old text books and oversized art books are stored in my desk.
My bookcase is overflowing, so shelf space comes at a premium. Classics and childhood favorites get a shelf. Feminist non-fiction splits a shelf with poetry and short stories. Fiction shelf space is reserved for my favorite authors, grouped by author.
The system gets increasingly anal the longer the list of things I ought to d instead of organize my books.
Posted by DsgndbyRJ on 2005-07-19 21:41:10
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Oh I wish I had that much space for my books! I still live at home so I have most of my books packed in boxes in the spare bedroom closet - though the boxes sure are organised!
One for my art books, one for the few textbooks that survived the purge as well as oversized books, one for *eep* romances, and another for fiction.
I have two crates in my bedroom containing fiction - some to read, most recently read, and another with half series and the other half - more romances (I do an every-other month purge on those, depending on how many I succumb to any given month). And there is a stack on my bedside table waiting to be read, or halfway through.
Crafting books are kept in those upright magazine stands along with a years worth of 3 or 4 magazine titles, which get purged quarterly.
I LOVE my books, but I try to keep the numbers down - and I have my mom to thank for that. She MUST own a book (as opposed to borrowing it) and rarely ever gets rid of them . . . AND she's a teacher, now teacher librarian - I can't even guess as to how many hundreds of books she owns (it's a small house, so they take up a lot of precious space) . . . I try to think optimistically though - books are better than alcohol! ;)
Posted by artgeek on 2006-02-05 16:10:30
Post Subject: Re: How do you organize your books?
The bulk of our books are paperbacks, and my husband built a bookshelf specifically for them (the height just barely fits some of our trade paperbacks and the width of the shelf is ideal for paperbacks). The top row is old VHS tapes; the second shelf starts the fiction section (alphabetical by author's last name; books in a series are organized according to publication date, all others are then alphabetical by title). Graphic novels and other strange birds fit somewhere in the middle shelves. Non-fiction and reference books are at the bottom of this system, organized by some categories I made up (eg, career & money, women's studies). Finally, all the books I've been loaned by friends and family have their own area. I also keep a running tally of books we've leant out here.
Did I mention that this bookshelf spans floor to ceiling? :D
We have a few other bookshelves snuck in around our apartment:
- Hardcover and other books that don't fit on the large bookshelf are on two folding mission-style bookshelves we picked up from Target. Fiction is alpha by author, cookbooks are all together, and RPG tomes are gathered by game system.
- My husband also built a series of book cubes specifically to fit my oversized art books. I have those organized by specific artist bios (alpha by artist's last name), by style (alphabetically), by museum (for exhibition catalogs that don't fit into the other categories), and by author (for my museum studies texts). My back issues of art magazines are organized chronologically. This is probably the most chaotic area of our book collection, but since it's my resource, I don't feel bad for being the only person who understands its logic!
-My craft books are kept on my craft desk in no particular order.
And if you're like me, you're more prone to snooping through book collections than medicine cabinets when I'm at another person's home.
This is so true of me! I've lost track of the number of parties I've gone to and been sucked into someone's bookshelf.
I alphabetize them and arrange them according to category...
I tried this when my husband and I first merged our books, but he was frustrated by not knowing where to find his books or knowing whether fiction was before or after scifi. So, now the entirity of fiction is just alphabetized.
Speaking of merging our libraries, we've only some duplicates:
-1984 by Orwell and Catch-22 by Heller. Other books we've freecycled or given away, but neither one of us can part with our copies of these classics. :)
-We also have hardcover and paperback copies of two books: Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay (my husband's book, but I love it, too, and know we're going to reread the paperback one into oblivion) and Early from the Dance by David Payne (possibly my favorite book; my mother-in-law found me a signed first edition, but the original paperback has sentimental value).
Back to the OP, I'm pretty entranced by Readerware (particularly the Palm support!), but just don't know if I'm willing to part with the $50. I was inspired, however, to look at what freeware options are available and found these two candidates:
BookDB
eLibPro
I haven't tried them out yet, but plan to do so soon and will report back.
