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Hello fellow LT'ers! I have a question about (well, duh) books. Obviously I have many of my books posted to LibraryThing, but I would also like to be uber-nerdy and keep a nice list of them ALL either on my computer, or written out by hand. Obviously computer would be easier, so I was wanting to start there (because purchasing and writing on over 500 separate 3x5 notecards does seem a tad bit wearying). I've tried to use Excel and make a spreadsheet, but it's kind of a clunky program, and I can't really get it to do what I want it to.

I've also been looking around online for ways that people catalog their own collections, but of course I keep getting hits on LibraryThing, which I'm already a member of, and am looking for alternative methods anyway.

Does anyone else out there keep a handwritten or otherwise un-LibraryThing catalog, or am I going to have to find someone to sell me 500+ notecards? Any advice would be most welcome!

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Hi guys!

I've added and reviewed a few books manually recently, and I'm getting a really bizarre bug. When I go to Your books and sort by Date Read (or Stopped, as it's called now), some of them don't appear in the right place in the list, even though I've entered the correct date. Anyone having similar issues?

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okay, i've just discovered this community so i wanted to chime in with my own 2008 books i've read poll...i'm sure you know the drill by now, more of the same, but for ME: )
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I started compiling lists of Top 100 (and more) Books recently. From Modern Library, BBC Big Read, Time Magazine, etc. These are the 30 that show up on the lists the most often (it was tough to cut down). I decided to make a point to read these 30 (plus many others from the various lists), and I was wondering how many of these books you have read.

Poll #1350619 How many of these have you read?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

How many of these books have you read? Part 1

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1984 – George Orwell
187 (78.6%)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
160 (67.2%)

Animal Farm – George Orwell
180 (75.6%)

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
64 (26.9%)

Beloved – Toni Morrison
50 (21.0%)

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
144 (60.5%)

Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
96 (40.3%)

The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
149 (62.6%)

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
76 (31.9%)

David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
71 (29.8%)

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
127 (53.4%)

Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
86 (36.1%)

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
95 (39.9%)

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
160 (67.2%)

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
93 (39.1%)

How many of these books have you read? Part 2

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Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
141 (59.5%)

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
78 (32.9%)

Lord of the Flies – William Golding
159 (67.1%)

The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
175 (73.8%)

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
78 (32.9%)

Moby Dick – Herman Melville
67 (28.3%)

On the Road – Jack Kerouac
64 (27.0%)

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
55 (23.2%)

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
148 (62.4%)

The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
143 (60.3%)

The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
43 (18.1%)

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
169 (71.3%)

To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
46 (19.4%)

Ulysses – James Joyce
41 (17.3%)

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
133 (56.1%)

Thanks for participating!

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Which online tool do members of LibraryThing use to catalog their music or movies? There's gotta be something similar out there for DVDs and CDs, right?
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Ok. So I used to be able to order my library in order of Summary and I had it perfectly organized the way I wanted it. And by that I mean I could view my library in alphabetical order of summary. I had placed two spaces in front of the books I wanted first then one space, then no spaces. However, now the new editing process will not allow me to keep those spaces in.

I feel that I could work around this lack of keeping the spaces in if I could just tell my catalogue to be ordered in alphabetical order.

Now does anyone know of anything I could do to order my catalogue by summary and to maybe turn off some sort of auto correct in my summary to leave in the spaces.

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Inspired by [info]deepad 's very helpful post for white people about how to be an ally, I went through my collection of books on librarything and tagged everything with a PoC author, as a starting point for reading more books by people of color.

The resulting list is embarrassingly small, includes a bunch of mangas, and includes only one African-American author.  Most of these books haven't bubbled to the top of my reading list yet, either, so they're tagged unread--including one I really need to read ASAP, Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White. Still, if you're looking to increase the diversity of your reading list, you might find something there that interests you. 

It's an eye-opening exercise and I'd encourage other librarythingers to try it, not so much for self-education as to make it easier for everyone to discover and support PoC authors.  Here's another thinger's "PoC author" tag list, and here are all books tagged "PoC." 

[xposted from my lj]





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Poll #1325486 The Rest of 2008
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Have you read these books, either in full or in part, in 2008?

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Engine City (The Engines of Light, Book 3) by Ken MacLeod
3 (13.6%)

You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination by Katharine Harmon
1 (4.5%)

The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
7 (31.8%)

Picoverse by Robert A. Metzger
0 (0.0%)

The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
11 (50.0%)

The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
2 (9.1%)

Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins
0 (0.0%)

A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
1 (4.5%)

Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski
1 (4.5%)

The War Against the Rull by A. E. van Vogt
3 (13.6%)

The Atrocity Exhibition by J. G. Ballard
6 (27.3%)

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Poll #1325389 Belated, Bad Historical Data 2008 Book Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Have you read these books, either in full or in part, in 2008?

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Evil Genes: Why Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend by Barbara Oakley
0 (0.0%)

A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-Day Iraq by Fernando Baez
0 (0.0%)

Arcanum 17 by Andre Breton
0 (0.0%)

The Stone Canal: A Novel (Fall Revolution) by Ken MacLeod
4 (16.7%)

Learning the World: a Scientific Romance by Ken MacLeod
5 (20.8%)

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
7 (29.2%)

Breakpoint by Richard A. Clark
0 (0.0%)

Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different by Gordon S. Wood
0 (0.0%)

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
9 (37.5%)

Roller Derby: The History and All-Girl Revival of the Greatest Sport on Wheels by Catherine Mabe
1 (4.2%)

Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War by
0 (0.0%)

Y: The Last Man Vol. 9: Motherland by Michael J. Vaughn
5 (20.8%)

The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists by Khaled M. Abou El Fadl
0 (0.0%)

The Exterminators Vol. 1: Bug Brothers by Simon Oliver
0 (0.0%)

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
6 (25.0%)

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Current Music:
So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter by Ani di Franco
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How do you people keep track of the books that you read? I am a lousy reviewer, so I will never be able to write up a review for the books I read, like I know some of you do. I use my LibraryThing account for the books I actually own, not just the ones I read. I also tried to keep track of my books on GoodReads, but I find the interface a bit clunky, and having to manually add Norwegian (and other not-English) books is rather bothersome, so any good ideas?

So these are the books I can remember reading last year. This is the tick the ones you've read- version, you can also find the annotated version at my personal journal. I tried to find the English titles for most of the books, but if the title is in a strange language I didn't know the English title.
Click a book! )

Current Mood:
cheerful cheerful
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..and my leap off the cliff can be found here

This wasn't all of it...just as much as I had the patience to post in this ridiculous poll interface...

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I read a LOT. Here is my list for 2008 (excluding all re-reads and most of the stuff I had to read for Thesis research). :-)

Jumping into the Fray )

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My 2008 books read poll can be found here

I look forward to these every year, helps me decide what to read next year!

Happy New Year, all!

Current Mood:
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how do I do it? Is there a way to make a poll in Library Thing and link here?
Current Location:
in freezing cold PA
Current Music:
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I absolutely love posting these and seeing everyone's yearly literary travails. This year I hit my goal of 150 books and surpassed it to a hardy 161. I haven't decided what I'll shoot for in 2009!

Click for a subsequent series of clickings! )

Current Music:
Clarinets, some piano
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Because everyone else is doing it, and it took me too long to code to junk it:

my poll, here

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OK, it's time for the annual book poll. I read 79 books this year, exactly the same as last year. The only one I didn't finish was American Pastoral; I will attempt reading no more Philip Roth. I am behind on book reviews but hope to catch up soon. I cannot cite favorites.

The poll )

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