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For a while I had it in my head that my 'count' of books was about 1950-something, but the other day I logged in and I saw 1918. I didn't give it much thought, but I did remember the '1918' number. I added six books tonight and on a hunch went over to "Your Books" and I'm still seeing 1918 as my grand total. Anyone else having problems like this? |
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Arrr, mateys! If ye ain't been plunderin' tomes t'day, ye best head yer scurvy selves over t'LibarryThing! |
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Oh you guys you guys you guys I'm DYING over here. DYING FROM LAUGHTER. I was visiting LibraryThing to add the latest Bloody Jack novel to my catalogue, as I'd just received it in the mail (nice timing, too - right on time for the holiday!), and everything is piratized. It's hilarious. Just about every single aspect of the site has been tweaked, from site talk having "unraided" messages (which you can "flog"), to authors being listed as "by the dread pirate So-and-so" on work pages, to the change covers page being "Change britches" ... The common knowledge form is kind of broken, a little bit, which makes me slightly sadfaced, but that's totally ameliorated by the piratized names for each field. I've read that the "featured authors" on the main page have been messed with to fit the theme, but I haven't changed my settings to see. I'm loving that in connections and on your profile and so on, instead of "added", it reads "stole" :D Anyway, it's cracking me up and I thought other people might enjoy it, so I'm posting it here for folks who don't visit LT regularly. If you don't see this until after the main site has reverted, the piratification is actually done through language settings, so you'll be able to get to it via http://pir.librarything.com in the future (so says Chris in the Site Talk thread). |
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Ever since Libraything introduced collections, it's opened up a whole new world of categorization for me. The problem is, I'm not sure how best to use it.
I'm an avid reader, and right now I "read" books three different ways - through good ol' paperback, through digital ebook, and through audiobook. Sometimes I read one book in more than one way. I'll read a chapter in paper form and then when I get into my car, I'll listen to another chapter via audiobook. So I'm looking for a way to best organize all this. I can't just mark a book as read. The organization nut in me wants to also categorize how I read that book. I also want to keep track of books in audiobook or ebook form that I haven't read, and some I have in both forms.
So I want to have such indicators as "read via audiobook", "unread via ebook", "read some via audiobook", etc. The problem is, I don't know if I should make these tags or collections. Furthermore, I want to be able to indicate all my books that I have in audiobook, whether I read them or not. Same for the ebook. I'd also like to indicate a genre of a particular book, but I figure that would probably be best a tag, right?
Anyway, I know this might sound confusing. I was juts wondering if anyone had a similar problem and/or what someone suggests to best keep a handle on things. Originally I was just going to do everything as a tag, but tags are not as robust as collections, and you have to make sure you spell them exact or it gets messed up. |
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I am getting ready to start a catalog of about 4000 books. I like the idea of using library thing then exporting to a local database. So far, I've found Book Collector, by Collectorz, BookCAT, and some freeware called BookDB2. Does anybody here use any local software? Any recommendations? Thoughts? Advice? |
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So...let me ask a stupid question....
What is the difference between the LT friend's list and the Interesting Library list other than if you add someone to the friend's list, they have to approve of it?
If LT has some sort of instant messenger service or a friend's only option (unless I personally do not know of it), then I could understand the difference of the two lists...
Anyway, help an ignorant man out...
Daniel
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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, participants: 250 How many of these books have you read? Part 1 How many of these books have you read? Part 2 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]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) 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
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 22 Have you read these books, either in full or in part, in 2008? |
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Poll #1325389 Belated, Bad Historical Data 2008 Book Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 24 Have you read these books, either in full or in part, in 2008?
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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! )
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..and my leap off the cliff can be found hereThis 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 hereI look forward to these every year, helps me decide what to read next year! Happy New Year, all!
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