Friday, June 14, 2013

Ex Libris

Okay so I had just stubbled upon Shelfari through blog hoping and even though I have a goodreads account I found their widget for blogs to be too cool. So I wanted one!! Even better! Shelfari allows me to identify not only books I own but which ones are being borrowed! This inspired me to want to organize my library, which made me revisit wanting bookplates for my books. Well I told myself I wasn't in any mood to reinvent the wheel and to just google "printable bookplates" and pick some to use. That didn't happen, well it did and I found some great bookplates but then I got to thinking.. if I keep them simple I could make my own bookplates according to subjects or genre's of my collection! So I give you the bookplate for my "Crazy Cat Lady" section.

This bookplate not only makes the statement that "this is my book" but also "you better return it if you know what's good for you!"

In the event that I get lazy.. yeah (stop laughing)... so when I start getting less enthusiastic about this project, I figured it would be a great idea to include a few links to some of the bookplate sites that I liked.

If I ever want to pay for my bookplates.. er I mean professionally done plates;

The title of the page should say it all. Bookplate Bonanza is a list of sites that has printable bookplates.

This site I really like, it is a collection of printable bookplates, arranged by size.


Below I have included my "Own" book shelf. That's right I own these books! And no, I'm not going to loan them out to just anybody, I have to organize and give them their bookplates but now you know why I totally had to make a Shelfari account.

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