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Kedvenc szerzőkPaul Auster, Mikhail Bulgakov, Joseph Conrad, Elvis Costello, Lindsey Davis, John Putnam Demos, John Fowles, William W. Freehling, Joan Hess, Christopher Hill, John P. Meier, D. W. Meinig, Van Morrison, Mark D. Nanos, Gary B. Nash, Iain Pears, Ellis Peters, Patti Smith, Steeleye Span, The Kinks, Mark Twain (Közös kedvencek)

Kedvenc könyvesboltokBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Fifth Ave, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Nanuet, Posman Books @ GCT

Kedvenc könyvtárakNew York Public Library - Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Nyack Public Library

RólamYeah, I am a librarian. One of the things you wind up doing when you have a history degree and you really don't want to teach. I work in a major library in an unidentified East Coast city. I have gotten to meet Abby in person.

Last ten books read:

Manhattan transfer / John Dos Passos (novel, c1925)
Barbarians to angels : the Dark Ages reconsidered / Peter S. Wells (late antiquity and early medieval history and archaeology, 2008)
The great medieval heretics : five centures of religious dissent / Michael Frassetto (11th-15th century, 2008, c2007)
The wordy shipmates / Sarah Vowell (American history, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 2008)
Medicus : a novel of the Roman Empire / Ruth Downie (Roman mystery. 2008, c2006)

The Janissary tree : a novel / Jason Goodwin (historical mystery, 2006)
Partners in command : the relationships between leaders in the Civil War / Joseph T. Glatthaar (Military history, 1994)
The ascent of money : a financial history of the world / Niall Ferguson (economic history, 2008)
Traitor to his class : the privileged life and radical presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt / H.W. Brands (biography and American history (2008)
The quest for the historical Israel : debating archaeology and the history of early Israel / Israel Finkestein and Amihai Mazar (2007)

Reading now:

Tried by war : Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief / James M. McPherson (Civil War, 2008)

New piles to read:

The Hollow Crown by Miri Rubin (medieval British history)
The New Testament code : the cup of the Lord, the Damascus Covenant, and the blood of Christ by Robert Eisenman (Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls)
Joseph Conrad, life and letters. Volume 2 (Biography)
The first circle by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (novel)
Of human bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (novel)
Our times : the United States, 1900-1925. VI, The Twenties by Mark Sullivan (American history)
The far ends of time and earth by Isaac Asimov (science fiction collection)
Mark Twain on the damned human race (essays)
The Pelonponnesian War by Donald Kagan (ancient history)
The story of civilization. Part III, Caesar and Christ by Will Durant (Roman and Christian history)
The road to disunion. Volume II, Secessionists triumphant, 1854-1861 / William W. Freehling (American history, 2007)
Northwest passage / Kenneth Roberts (historical novel, 2007, c1937)
Death by Dickens / edited by Anne Perry (Dickens inspired mysteries, short stories, 2004)
Five novels / Thomas Hardy (2006)
Jubilee Jim : the life of Colonel James Fisk, Jr. / Robert H. Fuller (biography, 1928)
Reading the man : a portrait of Robert E. Lee through his private letters / Elizabeth Brown Pryor (Biography, 2007)
The man in the jury box / Robert Orr Chipperfield [i.e Isabel Egenton Ostrander] (Mystery, 1921)
Possession : a romance / A.S.Byatt (novel, 1991, c1990)
War and peace/ Leo Tolstoy ; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (novel, 2007)
The great upheaval : America and the birth of the modern world, 1788-1800 / Jay Winik (1790s in world history, 2007)
Almost a miracle : the American victory in the War of Independence / John Ferling (American Revolution, 2007)

January 2008
Richard and John : kings at war / Frank McLynn (English history, King Richard I and King John, 2007)

February 2008
This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust (American history, 2008)

March 2008
Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain (1992, c1883)
Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln / Doris Kearns Goodwin (Lincoln, 2005)
Personal memoirs / Ulysses S. Grant (1999, c1885)
The Aeneid / Virgil ; translation by Robert Fagles (2006)
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain (1992, c1884)

August 2008
Sacred games / Vikram Chandra (mystery, 2007, c2006)
Five novels of the 1960s & 70s / Philip K. Dick (science fiction, c2008)

September 2008
The ruling class of Judaea : the origins of the Jewish Revolt against Rome A.D. 66-70 / Martin Goodman (ancient history, 1993, c1987)
The flourishing of Jewish sects in the Maccabean era : an interpretation / Albert T. Baumgarten (c1997)
The best poor man's country : early southeastern Pennsylvania (American colonial history, 2002, c1972)
The maritime history of Massachusetts, 1763-1860 / Samuel Eliot Morison (American history, 1961, c1921)
The education of Henry Adams : an autobiography / Henry Adams (1961, c1918)
The big sky / A.B. Guthrie, Jr. (novel, 1965, c1947)

October 2008
Killing time : a novel of the future / Caleb Carr (science fiction/mystery, 2000)
Murder in the Marais / Cara Black (mystery, 1999)
Lincoln President-Elect : Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter, 1860-1861 / Harold Holzer (Civil War, 2008)

November 2008
Mohammed and Charlesmagne / Henri Pirenne (Medieval history, 2001, c1954)
Life and work in medieval Europe / P. Boissonnade (Medieval history, 2002, c1927)
Castles : their construction and history / Sidney Toy 1985, c1939)
Old Philadelphia in early photographs, 1839-1914 / Robert F. Looney (c1976)
The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 : a photographic record / with text by Stanley Appelbaum (c1980)
American World War I posters : 24 cards / James Montgomery Flagg and others (c2003)
The angel of darkness / Caleb Carr (c1997, novel)
The march : a novel / E.L. Doctorow (c2005, Civil War novel)
A conspiracy of paper : a novel / David Liss (c2000, mystery)
The heaven tree trilogy / Edith Pargeter (1993, historical novels)

December 2008
Napoleon's wars : an international history, 1803-1815 / Charles Esdaile (military history, 2008, c2007)
Waking giant : America in the age of Jackson / David S. Reynolds (American history, 2008)
The whiskey rebels : a novel / David Liss (historical novel, 2008)
Jesus the Wicked Priest / Marvin Vining (Jesus as "The Wicked Priest" of the Dead Sea Scrolls, 2008)

New Music
Hot tamale baby / Marcia Ball (1986)
Keb' Mo' / Keb' Mo' (1994)
Beyond good and evil / Matt Haviland (jazz, 2006)
Momofuku / Elvis Costello and the Imposters (2008)
Rockferry / Duffy (2008)

New Movies
Children of paradise (1945 French film)

A könyvtáramrólOkay, I'm one of the persons who has added non-book items. The breakdown is:

Actual real live books: 1860
Serial titles: 62
Single issues: 1373
Indexed entries: 464
Moving image recordings (VHS, DVD): 130
Sound recordings: 724

Ranking

September 16, 2006: # 500 with 1409 @ 9:47 AM
March 27, 2007: # 117 with 4096 entries @ 1:47 PM
September 21, 2008: # 258 with 4616 entries @ 12:08 AM

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Tagság kezdeteJun 26, 2006

Éppen olvasottDeath's pale horse : a novel of murder in Saratoga in the 1880s írta: James Sherburne
Tried by war : Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief írta: James M. McPherson
Jesus the wicked priest : how Christianity was born of an Essene schism írta: Marvin Vining

Legutóbbi események

alibrarian értékelte:
James Tiptree, Jr. : the double life of Alice B. Sheldon írta: Julie Phillips

alibrarian értékelte:
The Dante Club : a novel írta: Matthew Pearl

alibrarian értékelte:
Voyage to the first of December : a novel írta: Henry Carlisle

alibrarian értékelte:
The best poor man's country : early southeastern Pennsylvania írta: James T. Lemon

alibrarian értékelte:
The ruling class of Judaea : the origins of the Jewish revolt against Rome, A.D. 66-70 írta: Martin Goodman

alibrarian értékelte:
The quest for the historical Israel : debating archaeology and the history of early Israel írta: Israel Finkelstein

Szólj hozzá!

Dear Librarian!

Here I was thinking how many facts I have corrected in LibraryThing, then I discovered you! Good grief - I can't quite believe anyone could contribute that much. Thanks!!
I am a retired UN official - International Atomic Energy Agency - and a book collector (and reader, but not as many as I buy). I am very involved with the Museum of Ethnology here - I am the driving force behind the Friends (treasurer - president is hardly ever seen). My private library, circa 8,000 books, is largly made up of museum catalogues (and related books). I have just now celebrated one year on LibraryThing and have entered over 1,250 books.
I would very much appreciate any thoughts you would have about my entries. I do not use Amazon unless absolutely necessary. I am tagging with subjects like Library of Congress and corporate entries. It is the corporates which I am spending the most time on. I am recording the names as found in the books under comments (place, museum, dates), but in the TAGS I give the most recent museum name (yes, they keep changing, especially in Europe where they are discarding the longer traditional names for catchy new ones) and see reference from older names, other spellings, etc. What does a Librarian think about this?
I have a hundred additional questions, remarks, etc. I have not wanted to communicate with LibraryThing weekly or monthly, but I am keeping a list of things I want to send them. Hope to get it to them before the New Year!
Could you take a look at my entries?
In any case, if you are ever in Vienna, I would love to show you the museums!

Greetings from a cold Vienna!
John Marshall

johninvienna által bejegyzett 2:18 pm (EST) -kor a Dec 13, 2009

Hi, I've just separated 'Trollope' from Anthony T and pinched your disambiguation notice for the bare surname. I could have been original but couldn't have improved on it - hope you don't mind.
Regards.

abbottthomas által bejegyzett 6:16 am (EST) -kor a Dec 11, 2008

Mea maxima culpa, alibrarian, I dint know.

Wow! You saw Patti Smith in 1975? Was it a bongo-ey poetry reading at St.Marks or an actual rock concert? Those were the days...I left Manhattan for Anchorage in 1974, but managed to see Dave Van Ronk, The New York Dolls, and Wayne County at one time or another at Max's Kansas City. I saw Patti twice (I used to visit NYC each summer) the summer of her Wave tour, 1979, before her "retirement". The second time was in a very hot and crowded CBGBs. One of those "unannounced" concerts you read about in the next day's NY Post page 6. I watched from just to the left of the stage. At one point she stepped down, while her band did an extended jam. She faced the stage. A fan sort of reached from behind to tap her shoulder. She turned and snarled "Don't fuckin' touch me!" I do declare, I nearly passed out.

There ARE some non Republicans in Alaska! The handshake is easy to learn, and involves the middle finger. We usually meet on Walpurgisnacht and obscure Native American ritual days, such as The Day the Salmon Turn Flaky. For security reasons, these meeting locations change continuously and are secret - generally mountain tops in the nearby Chugach National Forest. We haven't had much electoral success yet, but we're working on a plan with the legal assistance of PETA's PAC to get moose recognized under the Alaska Constitution as sentient beings entitled to a vote. Somebody heard it rumored that this once worked for Teddy Roosevelt and his band of merry Indy-publicans.

Republicans actually aren't such bad folks, should you ever get up in these parts. They don't taze us or tax us. We get free money each autumn (I got my $3269 check last week). And the stiff one armed salute/wave never bothered me until I got arthritis in my shoulder. I even had a Unitarian girlfriend once and nobody said a thing! If you just ignore the Red old boys, and stay out of the way of their snowmobiles, you'll be just fine. And those 2-stroke engines make lots of racket, so you can hear'em coming.

Of course they'all do like to shoot up road signs, so it's probably not a good idea to wear any yellow and black outfits. I used to have a Barack Obama sign in my front yard. Now I use it as a cheese grater. And above all, stay out of Wasilla, unless you can convincingly either quote scripture or express an opinion on NHL playoff teams.

Well, gotta run. I have an appointment with my therapist to work on this Stockholm syndrome thing.

Ganeshaka által bejegyzett 9:02 pm (EST) -kor a Sep 13, 2008

I like your library! How do you add photos, underlined text and bold text to your profile page?
--Jonathan

jglassow által bejegyzett 3:06 pm (EST) -kor a Jul 17, 2008

Like your approach to LT 'comments' column. How do you add the Wikipedia, IMBD url's?

--Chuck Ralston

chuck_ralston által bejegyzett 3:01 pm (EST) -kor a Mar 25, 2008

Thanks for adding so many Alaskan places to Local -- you really got a lot of them! Have you ever been up here?

akjubie által bejegyzett 2:57 am (EST) -kor a Mar 11, 2008

I assume that you added the upstate NY libraries to "LibraryThing Local" - so I'd just like to add my thanks.

AsYouKnow_Bob által bejegyzett 6:14 pm (EST) -kor a Mar 9, 2008

I'm not sure how many libraries are in Ireland. But there are a fair few and I'm only currently dealing with the Public Libraries.

wyvernfriend által bejegyzett 8:52 pm (EST) -kor a Mar 6, 2008

Mountrath library made it as 10000. Very cool. I've been trying to get many of the Irish Libraries up as it is Library Ireland Week.

wyvernfriend által bejegyzett 8:46 pm (EST) -kor a Mar 6, 2008

I found After the ice about the most boring book I've ever read—and I like what other people think is boring.

timspalding által bejegyzett 2:11 am (EST) -kor a Mar 1, 2008

Juneau? Why are you going insane on Juneau. There has to be a story!

timspalding által bejegyzett 2:10 am (EST) -kor a Mar 1, 2008

Ok, I'm inviting you to the BETA group where we're playing with Local. So you can report your bug there... :)

ablachly által bejegyzett 6:13 pm (EST) -kor a Feb 26, 2008

Libraries, bookstores, events/festivals... All of it.

ablachly által bejegyzett 11:27 pm (EST) -kor a Feb 24, 2008

Ha - venues is part of "Local" - a very beta feature right now, that will hopefully be live tomorrow morning. I'm just playing with it tonight. I didn't realize the venue photos were showing up on the same recent photos page as for authors. And coming up with the wrong headings too!

ablachly által bejegyzett 11:17 pm (EST) -kor a Feb 24, 2008

Hey. I see you're adding pictures. I'm making changes to the author-picture adding system. (You'll also see I'm adding lots of pictures of myself, that's because I need to test the system out, not because I'm vain.) If you get caught in a glitch, my apologies. I'm able to do most of the work on the development server, so you shouldn't see problems.

Best,
Tim

timspalding által bejegyzett 1:25 pm (EST) -kor a Feb 9, 2008

Looking at your library, I suspect that you are the "Alibrarian" who has been active over on ISFDB. If I am right, could you please check your Talk page at http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User... ? If I am wrong, sorry and please disregard the message :-)

ahasuerus által bejegyzett 9:56 am (EST) -kor a Oct 22, 2007

I know that you must be busy, but could you have a look at my catalogue and see my entries for a few DVD, CD and academic journals (tagged as such), to let me know whether I am doing it "right" or not? Many thanks!

Romanus által bejegyzett 10:46 pm (EST) -kor a Sep 20, 2007

Your library makes me drool. I'm not much into history but the sheer SIZE!
Question: is there an easy way to add CDs to the catalog, or do you do it manually?
Thank you.
J :-)

lilbrattyteen által bejegyzett 2:31 am (EST) -kor a Sep 18, 2007

Hi alibrarian,

Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries list! You've got quite an interesting-looking library too, which I'll have to peruse at my leisure.

bookie

bookiemonster81 által bejegyzett 5:52 am (EST) -kor a Sep 12, 2007

I have enjoyed reading about your library. Actually the few books we share are all quite conventional. What I was looking for is how you handled your tagging. Amongst the hundreds of single occurances, there is a need for some super tags. I was very surprised to see one of yours was "book", until I read your apologia for non-book items. I have been experimenting with adding my historic postcards (timidly tagged "pc"). I think that librarything has organisational potential for more than just books.

Your star constellation map is quite unique. I'm writing at the moment from the Atlantic island of Madeira, but since I'm using a dedicated mobilephone connection it will probably show up somewhere in Portugal (or Ursa minor?)

Botanica

botanica által bejegyzett 5:01 am (EST) -kor a Aug 12, 2007

We've both listed "Ellis Peters" as a favorite author. But if Edith Pargeter had only written the Brother Cadfael mysteries, I wouldn't list her among that select few. I do enjoy the mysteries, but it's her Heaven Tree Trilogy, on top of The Brothers of Gwynedd quartet, that lands her on my favorites list. So it kind of bugs me that I can't list her under "Edith Pargeter," her real name and the name under which she wrote these marvellous books. Do you have any idea how to fix this feature?

margad által bejegyzett 8:57 pm (EST) -kor a Jul 22, 2007

alibrarian,

Another picture credit line break request -- this time Tom Wolfe, in celebration of my adding The Electric kool-aid acid test.

DromJohn által bejegyzett 8:02 pm (EST) -kor a Jul 7, 2007

Just a note that let you know how much I appreciate your massive author photo effort. The author photos add so much to the author pages, and most photos I see are thanks to you, leebot, or lilithcat. Much appreciated.

Os.

Osbaldistone által bejegyzett 11:21 am (EST) -kor a Jun 22, 2007

Thank you! In the meantime, I look at your library and learn ...

Romanus által bejegyzett 8:24 am (EST) -kor a Jun 5, 2007

Hi there,

Hope you had a great holiday weekend.

When you get a moment, could you please line break the photos for Suzanne Farrell and George Balanchine? Many thanks!

leebot által bejegyzett 12:19 pm (EST) -kor a May 29, 2007

Hi, I love the useful helpers links in the combines group heading. Another link to suggest is the disambiguation notices log. It's under Misc in the All Together log but I've not seen any other way to get to it.
All the best, ryn

ryn_books által bejegyzett 9:15 am (EST) -kor a May 28, 2007

I definitely will give it a shot!

miss_read által bejegyzett 3:06 am (EST) -kor a May 7, 2007

@ lilithcat : Akim Willems is indeed studentica ;-)

studentica által bejegyzett 4:39 pm (EST) -kor a May 6, 2007

P.s. Love the Jim Henson/Muppet sculpture. That is VERY cool!

leebot által bejegyzett 1:15 pm (EST) -kor a May 6, 2007

Thank you for taking the time to compose that wonderfully in-depth explanation! It all makes sense to me now.

miss_read által bejegyzett 5:22 am (EST) -kor a May 6, 2007

Thanks for letting me know about the quarantined pics. I just assumed that if I provided the URL (giving credit) that it would be OK. My mistake. Sorry!

Just curious, though. Given that most author pics are hosted somewhere on the web, how do people ever obtain permission to post them on LT?

miss_read által bejegyzett 11:41 am (EST) -kor a May 3, 2007

Hi! Just wanted to let you know that I removed a flag from the image of Akim Willems that was uploaded by studentica. Looking at his profile page, it appears that studentica is Willems!

lilithcat által bejegyzett 11:51 pm (EST) -kor a Apr 27, 2007

Well, it seems like the name disappears when that particular author page shows "no works listed." I have wondered why that happens, and have theorized that maybe if an LT member adds a work but then deletes it for some reason, or perhaps makes some edits that moves the work to a different page but the original author name is left intact, kind of like a "ghost page." I know when I see an author page with no works listed and I click on the "add picture" box, I then see the "Add Picture For" heading but with the name field blank. It is easy to miss that. Yep, sometimes separating the names is the way to fix that but it is frustrating.

leebot által bejegyzett 6:37 pm (EST) -kor a Apr 22, 2007

Still an impressive page.
Please try breaks in the Kahlil Gibran photo.

DromJohn által bejegyzett 9:30 pm (EST) -kor a Apr 11, 2007

Nice page.
Are you willing to experiment with the F. Scott Fitzgerald picture credit. I wonder if inserting breaks could shorten the Credit line and send everything back to the top of the page.

BTW, I'm a librarian who wanted to teach, and found that the library was the back door into the classroom.

Only 20 books in common, but one of your random is my "to catalog" list.

DromJohn által bejegyzett 2:59 pm (EST) -kor a Apr 3, 2007

Yes, I've noticed that too -- it happened to me a couple weeks ago when I was trying to combine Dr. Laura Schlessinger entries. And I've also noticed that depending on how you get there, some secondary pages aren't intuitive, that there's a "main page." One other thing that is glitchy (and I think it may only apply to those of us who use Mozilla Firefox as a browser) is that when the credit is overly long, the picture jumps to the bottom of the page, often completely out of sight. It took me awhile to figure that out.

leebot által bejegyzett 8:05 pm (EST) -kor a Mar 31, 2007

RE Rex Stout: I had given up hope ever hearing back. It was nice of the family to respond. I think the picture is public domain anyway, but this way we have permission to point to. Thanks! And I still marvel at your totals...

xorscape által bejegyzett 1:44 pm (EST) -kor a Mar 21, 2007

Whew! Thanks for diving right in to those changes. I was daunted by the potential scale of the separating and re-combining and was worried there was an 'obvious' pseudonym that I'd be castigated for. Let me know if there's something I can do to help tonight (aussie time)

ryn_books által bejegyzett 3:08 am (EST) -kor a Mar 7, 2007

Hi, I noticed you added photos for Gordon Korman. I've noticed that his name and some books have been combined with Lynn Hall. I don't know enough about his other books to know if it's a pseudonym or an author-combining error. Do you have any other knowledge about him? You'll see what I mean if you search for "Korman" and see 2 listings for his name.

ryn_books által bejegyzett 11:33 pm (EST) -kor a Mar 5, 2007

Well, you deserve a medal. The email writing takes time (for those not public domain or copyrighted)!

I contacted the webmaster at the fan site as soon as I saw these pictures quarantined. She said she never worried about copyright, but she would check with the family. So maybe, someday...Rex Stout will have a picture. I really did assume that presidential signing photos would be federal government issued and thus public domain, but I don't know that.

xorscape által bejegyzett 4:53 pm (EST) -kor a Feb 22, 2007

Well, Rex Stout has defeated me. I was sure that a presidential signing photo was public domain... As well as the one from the Navy onboard the presidential yacht from 1906. As I said, this picture stuff is hard work. I am impressed by what you have done.

xorscape által bejegyzett 1:20 pm (EST) -kor a Feb 21, 2007

I like the 1906 Rex Stout pic too. I made it the default. I wonder what it is like to spend two years in the Navy on the presidential yacht...

xorscape által bejegyzett 1:12 am (EST) -kor a Feb 15, 2007

This picture stuff is horrible! I am really impressed that you have found so many!!

xorscape által bejegyzett 9:21 pm (EST) -kor a Feb 14, 2007

What a cool site!!! I did some surfing and came up with the same photo elsewhere with no reference. So the original guys probably did think there was no copyright. I have come up with a couple of other photos that I think will work.

xorscape által bejegyzett 8:59 pm (EST) -kor a Feb 14, 2007

Re Rex Stout picture: Will you please send me the url at which you found the picture? He died in 1975 and so a picture used in 2003 must have been from someone's archives. I will post a different picture in the meantime from the original source. Thanks for finding a different source. I let the Wiki linked site know of your finding also.

xorscape által bejegyzett 8:29 pm (EST) -kor a Feb 14, 2007

Hi alibrarian, You seem to have a wide range of interests, and a lot of time to read. A good combination!

MissUSA által bejegyzett 12:30 pm (EST) -kor a Feb 12, 2007

LOL, regards fm another non-teaching history majors. Happy New Year! A

Ammianus által bejegyzett 10:24 am (EST) -kor a Dec 30, 2006

Thanks.. I am on a bit of a roll. If I can stay at 10% of your total, I'm pretty happy!

jjlong által bejegyzett 6:09 pm (EST) -kor a Nov 15, 2006

Hi!

Is it my imagination, or did you at some point get permission from the Nobel Prize people to use images from their website?

lilithcat által bejegyzett 5:18 pm (EST) -kor a Oct 30, 2006

How come you are listed # 1 on the largest libraries on the Zeitgeist, but show up as # 2 if you click on more to see the top 100 (i.e. 500) ? Another LT bug?

I've been wondering that myself. My best guess is that "bluetyson" (and there are other 'Top 500' users not on the 'Zeitgeist' front page) is on LT under the "organization" terms-of-service. I suppose if I were a bit more curious, I could just ask him.

AsYouKnow_Bob által bejegyzett 8:32 pm (EST) -kor a Oct 26, 2006

I was browsing your library and discovered that you're cataloging the SF magazines.

I'm impressed. I'm impressed that you're doing it at all, and I'm impressed that you're doing it at such a professional level.

Magazines on LT, hmm.... I guess I'm waiting for LT do a better job of handling multiple-author works before I contemplate adding my magazines here. (I guess it almost goes without saying that I have a big SF magazine collection, too....)

AsYouKnow_Bob által bejegyzett 11:15 pm (EST) -kor a Oct 25, 2006

I'm dubious, particularly in cases where an image that is arguably public domain has been altered in some fashion. And many books say, "No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission." I have to assume that "no part" includes the cover! Personally, I wouldn't do it.

lilithcat által bejegyzett 9:15 pm (EST) -kor a Oct 25, 2006

Hi, fellow attempter-t-keep-image-posters-in-line!

I "unflagged" the image of Clifford Pickover because it appears to have been uploaded by the photographer.

lilithcat által bejegyzett 5:19 pm (EST) -kor a Oct 23, 2006

She does, doesn't she? I was lucky to stumble across them (that's my preferred method - stumbling - as opposed to your obviously amazing research skills) :)

jjlong által bejegyzett 9:11 pm (EST) -kor a Oct 21, 2006

Just wanted to let you know why I "unflagged" the photo of Joan Druett. It appears, from the poster's screen name (druettjo) that it was the author herself who uploaded it. So I figure it's okay with her!

lilithcat által bejegyzett 11:18 pm (EST) -kor a Oct 5, 2006

(from your profile, above): Where did you ever find the time to read them?

There's a quote that was sent to me (I know nothing at all about the person that it's credited to) that applies here:

"Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading" - A.N.L. Munby

Which is more than a little true: for the past couple of months, I seem to have been spending more time cataloging my books and reading the book groups on LT - and now book-swapping - than I have spent actually reading.

- Bob

AsYouKnow_Bob által bejegyzett 11:33 pm (EST) -kor a Sep 30, 2006

RE: Bertrand Russell/Bertrand Russel

That wasn't actually a duplicate. Even though the misspelled author "Bertrand Russel" was combined with the correctly spelled "Bertrand Russell", he still has his own author page, and I decided he should have an image, too.

It would be very nice if somehow the same image would automagically attach to all the "authors", but it doesn't. So I sometimes do this.

lilithcat által bejegyzett 7:48 pm (EST) -kor a Sep 27, 2006

Thanks so much for posting that you are reading After the Ice......I thought it looked interesting - so have just spent a weekend in London searching the bookshops for a copy...and having found it cannot put it down - amazing book. It has, of course, made a mess of my 'to be read' pile - as everything else now has to wait - but I am really grateful, and hope you're enjoying it as much as I am.

lynne.litchfield által bejegyzett 3:50 pm (EST) -kor a Sep 26, 2006

RE: Elias M. Stein

Your copyright info on this image got truncated. I didn't flag it because I assume it's the same permission as the other photos from Princeton. But you might want to fix it.

Lilithcat

lilithcat által bejegyzett 11:51 pm (EST) -kor a Sep 23, 2006

RE: Queen Noor

Oh, the poor woman! To be haunted forever by your college yearbook photo is a fate not to be wished on one's enemies. (I suppose it could be worse though. It could be one's high school yearbook photo!)

;-))

lilithcat által bejegyzett 2:01 pm (EST) -kor a Sep 23, 2006

That sounds very problematic to me. I don't think I'll remove what I've already posted, but I also think that I won't use that site as a source anymore. It's too bad, because they've had a lot of useful images (though perhaps that should have been a clue that something was wrong!). Thanks for letting me know about this.

lilithcat által bejegyzett 3:04 pm (EST) -kor a Sep 16, 2006

A site you might enjoy. I sent this to lilithcat, too. Figured you two would be the ones to most appreciate the work/art.

http://www.galleriamia.net/index.htm

Dan

danbrady által bejegyzett 1:43 am (EST) -kor a Sep 12, 2006

alibrarian, yes, aren't they wonderful portraits? I believe permission granted includes any of his portraits of authors. That was the wording in my request to him. Below is the copy of the email - perhaps our resident intellectual property advisor can comment. (Lilithcat, are you listening?) :-)Dan

>Hi Dan

>Thanks for your message & taking the trouble to ask. Sure, no problem
>- can you use the address www.chrismsaunders.com though

>Cheers
>Chris

>From: Dan Brady
>To: chrismsaunders@hotmail.com
>Subject: Fwd: Photo permission
>Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:46:39 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Sorry to be a pest but it occurs to me that it would be easier if you
would
>respond in kind about any of your author photos rather than having me
>pester you with individual emails. Thanks for your consideration.
> Dan Brady

danbrady által bejegyzett 2:07 pm (EST) -kor a Sep 6, 2006

Re: On the banks of the Hudson

Hello again: we seem to be crossing paths.

I'm not in Rockland, but I do look out upon the Hudson from my office window up in Albany. And, as has been said, America only really begins on the west shore of the Hudson....

AsYouKnow_Bob által bejegyzett 7:13 pm (EST) -kor a Aug 18, 2006

Someone has cleaned it up again. You? Keeping some authors like in King in decent order could be a nearly a full time job!

quartzite által bejegyzett 10:23 am (EST) -kor a Aug 6, 2006

"Saw your new group for Ace Doubles. Man, does that bring back memories. '

Doesn't it, though? The marvelous thing about the old 'rack' system of distribution is that cheap paperbacks (such as the Ace Doubles) made it into places where kids could find them - small-town drugstores and whatnot. Today, we have big-box bookstores in the suburbs, but kids can't really get there on their own - now they need their parents to buy them books.

I discovered some Philip K. Dick Ace Double at about age ten, and it changed my life.

AsYouKnow_Bob által bejegyzett 2:23 am (EST) -kor a Aug 5, 2006

"Hope you don't take my starting group New Model Army the wrong way. "

Oh, heavens no, not at all. The more, the merrier - I was thrilled to see a 'NMA' Group. Not only is it "all the same 17th century", but it's a BIG 17th century: Winstanley and Wilmot probably belong in different groups. (You found a really great picture, BTW.)

See you around the Groups!

AsYouKnow_Bob által bejegyzett 7:07 pm (EST) -kor a Aug 4, 2006

Hello - I see whatyou're sayingabout the Twain.I was matching ISBN#'s on the Oxford series and a number of them have the author of the introductions and afterwords as the "author" of note.I'llclean themupeventually but that was someone else's error that I just perpetuated with the stroke of an enter key. Thanks and regards - Barney Dannelke

Dannelke által bejegyzett 10:07 pm (EST) -kor a Aug 2, 2006

Thanks for stopping by!

I figured your 17th century books were mostly colonial U.S. and Britain. If you're looking for a good introduction to the 30 Years War I would recommend C.V. Wedgwood for readability and Geoffrey Parker or Ronald Asch for accuracy.

I've been paying a fair amount of attention to obscurity levels for other users too. If you want to see some really obscure libraries check out lycanthropist or antimuzak. They have more than 50% of their collections shared by no one else (though I tend to discount antimuzak's some because s/he includes music cds and sheet music which most libraries don't). Lycanthropist must have 3500 unique volumes. There are only about fifty libraries that large in all of LT.

John

johnandlisa által bejegyzett 4:48 pm (EST) -kor a Jul 30, 2006

alibrarian. Good to see someone else self-consciously keeping track of book obscurity and the like. I've been making periodic observations in the comments section of my profile rather than the about my library section.

I will say that if you had a really serious 17th century collection you probably would have risen a bit higher on our common users list. I do note that you are a bit higher on our list than we are on yours.

I'll be curious to see how many books we have in common when we're both done adding them.

John of...

johnandlisa által bejegyzett 6:58 pm (EST) -kor a Jul 28, 2006

alibrarian, maybe we share so many books because we have exquisite taste. :-) Watching this site develop since November when I joined, I have been astonished at the number of books I thought were rather obscure that have turned out not to be. Conversely, I'm amazed when it turns out that I'm the only one listing a book.

Casaloma is my top match; we share 871 books. Recently Quartzite has become my second-top match, with 628 in common. I know nothing about either of these readers, but I still feel they must be my soul mates. But there are plenty of users with whom I share very little or nothing, which makes me realize just how many books there are in the world.

You have a very interesting library. Actually I wish I had many more of your books and the opportunity to read them.

carminowe által bejegyzett 5:29 pm (EST) -kor a Jul 15, 2006

Welcome! My top match has changed on LT over time. Originally, it was ellenandjim by a mile (that was before carminowe had entered a couple thousand more of her books). Then it was carminowe for quite a few months. Now it's debweiss, who shares an astonishing 467 books with me thanks to her large holdings in classics (she owns the entire Penguin collection), Judaica, and children's books.

I look forward to browsing your books. Since I'm a literature person on the look-out for history books, I have a tough time finding recommendations.

chanale által bejegyzett 10:24 am (EST) -kor a Jul 14, 2006

Dear fellow librarian, please keep entering your obscure history books! So far you and I have 12 books in common (at least) and I see some really interesting looking titles in your collection. I haven't read Nash's Unknown American Revolution yet although I have read some of his other books. How do you like it? If you plunder in my library, I use the tag "history" for American history and only modify it when the book is not American history. (Obviously my collection is ethnocentric.) Also I use "Indians" as a tag without bothering to add "history" since they're almost all history.

Dragonfly által bejegyzett 8:20 am (EST) -kor a Jul 5, 2006

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