argh

I just went to look for my Booklist text file that I keep all handy-dandy on my desktop. It isn't there. It isn't in the trash. It isn't on my backup harddrive. It is gone.

(It lived near the trash can; I must have tossed it by accident.)

The Booklist file is (was) where I dropped titles of things I wanted to read or look into. Which edition of a translated book to get & which to avoid. Books on topics I fall in and out of obsession with: subways/underground systems, the 1920s, Louis XIV. Lists of book recommendations off of authors' blogs, bulletin boards, books to get at the library, etc.

I've had that ongoing lowly text file since . . . 2001? 2000?

I still have my pre-millennium box o' paper lists under my bed, but CRAP! That's a lotta info lost to the electrons!

I will try to look at this as a clean slate. The list had gotten quite long, somewhat unmanageable. (But I loved it.) I am in no shortage of books to read.

I will back up my computer.

(But I did vote today; hooray!)