To LT or not to LT the zines

[julesjones]

I have rather too many fanfic zines, and not enough shelf space. I'm about to start weeding them, but I do want to keep an easily accessible record of what I've owned, and ideally my reviews where they exist. LibraryThing seems to be the answer, but I'm going to have to think about whether I want a completely separate account for that. It's not exactly a secret that a number of those zines were acquired as contributor copies, but it may still be polite to various parties to not tie the identities together that publicly. However, I probably have more than 200 zines, and I'm not sure I want to pay for another lifetime account just to record the zines.

OTOH, I do want to make the collection public on LT, because it will be a very easy way to track whether a zine is marked for disposal or has gone. That could be useful for people who'd like to ask for any of the surplus ones before they go off to a con charity table.

[rummage] yes, my old Approach database has more than 200 entries, and I've acquired more since I last updated that.

Shall think about this for a bit...

Comments

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

I love old zines. &hearts&

[julesjones]

I do too, but I'm married to a mundane who would rather that the fannishness did not take over the entire house. :-) So it's time some of these found new homes. Once I've done a bit of sorting (which may take a while), I'll put up a list of the ones that are going.

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit unsure about listing my zines publicly, and 'putting them out there' so to speak. Not so much on my account, but because of the sellers and creators, who might be bothered by it. I would like to have them in my library as there's a fair few, but... hm, I'm a bit unsure.

[julesjones]

The information's already public, since they're all listed on Hermit and many of them are listed on publishers' and writers' websites. But exposing them to additional outside attention is one of the things I'm concerned about. I could make it a separate, private account, but the titles would still show up in the general database if anyone bothered to look, and the things that would make a listing useful to other fans would also make it more likely to attract the attention ofoutsiders. (The tagging system would be Really Useful for those who insist on being told exactly what's in the story before they read it...)

There are some zines already listed there. And I happily listed my copies of the two Star Cops zines, since those were in the odd position of being officially sanctioned by Chris Boucher, with royalties being paid to him. But I still want to think about this for a while.