On: Zotero 6

[Freak_NL]

Not just for scholarly reference management: Zotero is a great tool to keep track of the books you have if your personal library exceeds one or two Billies in volume. For books printed after 1970 the ISBN alone is enough to have it fetch the most relevant metadata for any book published anywhere from online catalogues. I find Zotero particularly useful when going to a book-fair; it is easy to export a list of titles and authors of books you own so you can easily reference it to see which books from a particular author or series you already have.

[exhilaration → Freak_NL]

one or two Billies in volume

Possibly the most universal of all units of measurements. For the uninitiated: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/billy-bookcase-white-00263850/

[cholmon → exhilaration]

I've never heard "billy" used like this before now, thanks for the clarification.

[exhilaration → cholmon]

It transcends nation, culture, and language. In the future, we will measure the distance between the stars in billies.

[david_draco → exhilaration]

and insects in millibillies

[SantalBlush → david_draco]

and mountains in hillbillies

[copperx → exhilaration]

Whoa, that's expensive for an MDF bookcase.

[Freak_NL → copperx]

Well-designed, proven, and sturdy though. It's not made of MDF, it's particle board. Although a cheaper material, this is actually a good thing here, because the same bookcase made of MDF would be much heavier and the planks would sag.

Prices are certainly on the high side, but that phenomenon does not seem limited to Ikea.