Yes, I actually do read....

My bookshelf here is bare, which would lead you to believe I don't read. Or that I don't have many books.

You would be wrong.

I have so many books, particularly baseball books, that I have recently discovered I'm buying multiple copies. Not new editions or rare editions or autographed copies of books already in my collection. I'm buying a second (and I hope not a third) copy of books already on my shelves. Or tables, or floor. I browse Barnes & Noble and Borders and Amazon.com, so much and have picked up and skimmed through so many books that I no longer remember which ones I have, and which ones I want but don't yet have.

I now have two copies of Howard Bryant's Juicing the Game, two copies of Buzz Bissinger's 3 Nights in August, George Will's Bunts and Men at Work, and three copies of Robert Peterson's Only the Ball Was White, among others.

I want to make an inventory, that I can carry with me, so that when I pick up a book in a store and think "I'd like to have this," I could check to see if it's already in my collection. Someone I know from SABR does this. He has a pages-and-pages long list of itty-bitty type of his collection, but I know I would constantly be printing a new copy and that gets a bit out of hand not to mention expensive.

Some book geeks turned me on to Library Thing, which may help me with my addition. It is itself addictive.