leaveittoweaver, maintainer of the wonderful searching for alice blog, started a group on a website called good reads for alice, called all things alice. i also saw that she keeps track of some of her alices with the site, because there is a fairly vast catalog of various editions of books on there. so i copied her. and i was able to find 45 of mine, so far. the list, or "shelf", is here: yay!. this is the best way i know of to keep track, so far.

i recently sat at my alice shelf with a notebook (an alice notebook, who'da thunk?) and wrote down all the isbns (of the ones that had them)... and tried to google them... and ran into a bounty of problems with this. some of the numbers linked to entirely unrelated books, or were not found at all! after not very long of futzing with this, i abandoned it altogether. which was a sad thing, because it took me like an hour and a half to hand-write all the numbers down! ahh well, it was at least a good chance to check for bookworms and other such problems that sometimes accompany collections of books.

i'm in florida on vacation right now. jay and i are visting his mom, and a feature of these visits tends to be that we visit many thrift, consignment, and used book stores. i am always on the lookout for alices :) last time i only found two, my alice for the very young and my ultimate illustrated edition. this time, i've found 7!
i figure this places me somewhere around 100.
eep!

i'm including pictures for once ever!

this one i got today at a place called the book lover's cafe, which is where i found my alice for the very young. jay actually spotted this first. i was happy because it was one i've been wanting. it's from 1986... it's my age :) see, however, the booworm-hole in the binding near the top :( i do not believe this is an ongoing problem, but i'll still treat it when i get home)


( the other 6! )