Dad (Brett)
Mom (Erin)
Aeriana ('Wacko', 'Princess')
Zoe Jean ('Stinker', 'Cutie')
Dang, we have a ton of books... literally!
That fact that we have a lot of books is no surprise to us, and probably no surprise to anyone reading this. In a development that could hold interest to me and me alone, the site we use to catalog our books, LibraryThing, has implemented a 'physical characteristics' feature. This new feature takes whatever information it has for your books (too bad it's not perfectly accurate, that would be even more interesting) and calculates things like total number of pages, height, weight, etc.As I said, among those who see this blog I could possibly be alone in finding this interesting... or maybe there are a few of you who are just dorky enough to be intrigued (don't worry, I won't tell).
Among other derived statistics, all shown here, I found the following to be the most fascinating - and yet, still spectacularly useless.
Volume
U-Haul book boxes: 69
Bathtubs: 4.2
Weight
Total (pounds): 2,304
Blue whales: 0.00968
Value of weight in gold: $37,584,605 (I'm intellectually millionaire! ...or something)
If all the pages in all the books were laid end-to-end...
Circumference of earth: 0.1704%
To moon: 0.0178%
And since a picture is worth a thousand words (hmmm... how many total words do we have in our books? Maybe that should be the next added feature!)
And here, in all it's boxed-for-moving glory, our books!
(Erin's comment accompanying this picture was "Sometimes I think we have too many..." - but fear not, her temporary insanity will surely pass.)
posted by Brett at
8:06 AM
6 Comments:
You ARE dorky, yet I found myself laughing with this spectacularly useless information! :)
What this picture and all of the information doesn't include is the hundred or so books on top of that that the girls have... Yeah... I'm a dork too.
And that's why we get along so well... one dork to another :) You guys are moving? North Carolina? Apparently it's been too long since we talked...
TOO funny -- and I loved Aunt Jenny's comment.
WOW - that is a massive amount of books!!!
Did you get my message to call when you get a minute (I know that you are super busy with the "mess" right now).
We want to be dorky with you - we think it is "cool" when the majority of your possessions are books!
Thank you for the picture! I showed JJ your boxes of books and told him he can never complain about my "10 or so" of books that he complains about everytime we move.
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