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Category: Freaks Volume 3
Galaxy Angel II
Hana-Kimi Volume 16
Her Majesty's Dog Volume 5
Hot Himmick S Novel
Inubaka Volume 1

Clamp reborn

One of my favorite artist, Clamp is starting to slow down. They have several series that are in the middle or close to the end that have just stopped. The reason being to my knowledge is that one of the main artist is developing bad arthritis and can't draw very much any more. But instead of killing the group as a whole, they have continued drawing separately and are still publishing. Here are a few of their separate works, both listed here are finished.*

Mouryou Kiden volumes 2 and 3 (Finished)*
Ninin Ga Shinobuden volume 1
The Drifting Classroom volume 1
Zyword (well there's only one volume)*

Missing books

As I slowly work through book after book (no not reading) scanning the covers for an idea I had to make a visual database of my library that I could store in my I-Pod video, several things happened. The first is that I realized it is going to take much longer than I had hoped. There are two reasons. The first is the volume of material to be scanned, cleaned, and cropped in Photoshop vs the small amount of free time I have. The second is that as I scan each volume, I find myself remembering what happened in each book or... not remembering and thumbing through it to refresh my memory. The idea was to create a database that I could easily update and carry. As of now, I have been reliant on either my memory, a printed list, or my laptop. At first, my memory served me well enough and still does... well, most of the time, but as I added more and more new series to my reading list, it has become increasingly harder to keep up with what I have and what is new. The second worked well enough for a time when I only read thirty or forty different series. Then I met a girl named Marcy (The resident manga guru at the local waldens). Thanks to her that number soared to around a hundred different series in the span of a few months. After buying several books that I already owned because I had forgotten to print out an updated list, I realized I needed a better way of keeping track of things. I went out and got a two meg Palm Pilot Zire and created a simple title list that I could edit on the fly.
Manga A-M 5-10-05
.hack//AI buster 1-2
.hack//Legend of the Twilight 1-2
Abenobashi 1-2
Absolute Boyfriend 1
A.l. Love You 1-5
Ai Yori Aoshi 1-9...........etc.
This worked great until one day while adding a new series, my PDA informed me that I had reached the maximum character limit for a single document. Not a problem, I split the list into two, A-M and N-Z. shortly there after, it informed me that it at last had reached its maximum storage limit, CRAP! and so using my newly acquired laptop I started work on a more comprehensive database. At first it was just the series name and what volume it was up to, then I decided that having the ISBN would be handy seeing as that some book stores have strange ways of abbreviating titles or misspelling them. With an ISBN there is no mistake. That meant typing an an entry for each volume, URGHHHH. Then I had the bright idea that having the author and artist name would be nice so I could cross reference what books were by the same person and be able to keep up with any new books by manga-ka that I liked. Then came the publisher because while some release books on or before the advertised date like Tokyopop, others are not so reliable like Dark Horse and Broccoli which are consistently late by weeks and sometimes months. Next came price so that I would know how much to budget each month, and last and most recently was the release date so I could keep track of previous volumes and at a glance know roughly when the next volume would be coming out. All that being said, that brings me to my current state which still has its problems. The third, that being my laptop is not always on me or is too bulky to be convenient. Hence the idea of a cover art picture gallery that I could easily store on my I-Pod and scroll through quickly. The second thing I found is that I'm missing some books. I somehow missed getting the 17th volume of Angel Sanctuary and the 14th volume of Cheeky Angel. I also noticed that I'm missing the third volume of Gacha Gacha but I know I bought that one, I just somehow misplaced it while moving but have yet to find it. So that is where I stand at the moment; typing, scanning, and reading my life away. So in that spirit, here are just a few more to catalog, scan, and hopefully get a chance to read.

.hack//Another Birth volume 3 Outbreak
Absolute Boyfriend volume 3
Angel Sanctuary volume 18
Blame! volume 7
D.Gray-Man volume 4
Enchanter volume 3
Faeries' Landing volume 15
Hayate the Combat Butler volume 2
Nana volume 5
Sensual Phrase volume 18 (Final Volume)
The Good Witch of the West volume 2
The Law of Ueki volume 4
Train_Man Densha Otoko volume 3 (Final Volume)
Trigun Maximum volume 11

God, I'm such a masochist! Oh well.