Great to meet you! Thanks for accepting my friendship. I'm Looking forward to checking out your library and I hope you enjoy mine.

posted by lisaunger at 11:20 am (EST) on Nov 7, 2007

Hi!

I hate to be anxiety-ridden but you're usually so good at putting up the Thread for the Week--I hope you're going to do that for this week (October 20). You're really not going to abandon us all, are you? :-)

posted by Joycepa at 6:35 am (EST) on Oct 20, 2007

that's what I did ;-) thanks again for all the help

posted by pivox at 2:01 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2007

Big Big THANK YOU :-) seems to work alright (it does disapear however whenever i edit my profile - but it's a lesser evil really :-)

posted by pivox at 1:13 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2007

have a look at the result on my page :-( Still overlapping :-(

deleted the last four lines and then hit a few times the return key of my keyboard (that's what you mean by adding a few empty lines, right?) but well ...

posted by pivox at 6:14 am (EST) on Sep 2, 2007

thanks a lot :-)
However it doesn't seem to work on my profile page. Eventhough I cleared all my code and pasted yours the way you posted it on my page. I don't quite understand why there are two covers and then it overlapps with the "about my library" part of the page :-(

posted by pivox at 5:47 am (EST) on Sep 2, 2007

p.s.

I managed to do this:

xxxxxxxx El Pais De Las Ultimas Cosas (In the country of last things)
xxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx

but can't figure out how to add a second ("by Paul Auster") and third line ("In my catalog")of text

xxxxxxxx El Pais De Las Ultimas Cosas (In the country of last things)
xxxxxxxx by Paul Auster
xxxxxxxx In my catalog
xxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx

posted by pivox at 4:19 am (EST) on Sep 2, 2007

Hi :-)
you seem to know quite a lot about HTML and have implemented quite a lot here in LT. Could you help me with this one?:
On my profile page, I'd like to display a cover on the left side, and display Title, Author, link to the book on the right side of the cover. Something like this:

xxxxxxxx El Pais De Las Ultimas Cosas (In the country of last things)
xxxxxxxx by Paul Auster
xxxxxxxx In my catalog
xxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx

Where "xxx.." is the cover

I have tried it in a lot of ways, but didn't work :-(

posted by pivox at 3:37 am (EST) on Sep 2, 2007

Thanks for the webpage address :-)

posted by pivox at 2:37 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2007

Ok, thanks a lot. I'm quite new in the HTML world :-) Do you know of any good HTML webpages where I could poke around?

posted by pivox at 10:39 am (EST) on Aug 27, 2007

Thanks for the target="_blank" :-)
When you have tabs enabled however it opens in a new tab. I would like to be able to open a link in a new window whatever the settings of your browser. Furthermore, i'd like to open the new link in a new window without toolbars and other buttons. Is that possible?

posted by pivox at 10:29 am (EST) on Aug 27, 2007

a last one and then it's lunch time :-)
I'd like to add a link to a post but I'd like it to open in a new tab or in a new windows
Could you help me with those two?

thanks a lot

posted by pivox at 5:40 am (EST) on Aug 27, 2007

I just noticed that the border doesn't border just the text but goes way to the right even though the text (in your example) isn't that long. Is this "fixable"?

posted by pivox at 5:12 am (EST) on Aug 27, 2007

Hi, thanks for your help with the border. However it doesn't seem to work on the profile page :-(

posted by pivox at 5:05 am (EST) on Aug 27, 2007

Hi,
First of all thanks a lot for the useful HTML explanations on your GFAQ

I was wondering whether you could also give us the code to make the nice border you did around the following text at the bottome of your page:

Keywords: greyhead wishlist library
To link to this GFAQ copy and paste this code
see this GFAQ

posted by pivox at 4:16 am (EST) on Aug 27, 2007

Thanks for the note. It's good to be back. I had to take a bit of a break to finish a degree before time ran out on me. All of that is finished now and I must be much smarter because they gave me a piece of paper saying so. :)

I missed the group here so it is fun to be back and working on LT again.

posted by conceptDawg at 12:34 pm (EST) on Jul 24, 2007

Just finished reading No Humans Involved - the latest Otherworld novel by Kelley Armstrong. I read it overnight - such a page turner! Thought I'd let you know since you mentioned it on the What Are You Reading? group - it's every bit as good as her other books. :)

posted by Kell_Smurthwaite at 5:55 am (EST) on May 19, 2007

Thanks very much for the instructions on adding book covers to the profile page! I'm a complete HTML novice, but got it to work thanks to your help.

Robert

posted by DoctorRobert at 6:57 pm (EST) on May 16, 2007

Hi Bob

If you get bored one day, you could add the following change to your GFAQs: change the links on http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph... (which I'm using for my own profile now - thank you :-) ) to the version where you only link to the part starting with the first / (relative links instead of absolute)?

Maybe also mention it on http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph... ?

And if you're editing topic=7662 maybe also add that if you copy an URL into a message and take care to have a space before and after it, it should work.

Best wishes :-)

posted by sunny at 5:00 pm (EST) on May 15, 2007

Tiny typo on page 9 of cuecat_notes_v3.pdf: "If yours is a USB model with the same or similar Cat. No *than* carry on ..."

"than" should be "then".

Thanks for the nice summary - looks like we probably have the same model, which simplifies my work. Hopefully tonight!

posted by uncleop22 at 5:24 pm (EST) on May 7, 2007

Thank you for the second message on posting my reads on "What are you reading now". I guess I'm an unintentional Luddite, I don't understand how to post to the current week. Help?

Smiley

posted by Smiley at 4:34 pm (EST) on Apr 27, 2007

Bob, Thanks so much for your suggestion! The tag searching works beautifully.

bob ++thanks

:-)

posted by NativeRoses at 11:01 pm (EST) on Apr 9, 2007

Luis Coll recently died; what an extraordinary diccionario his is.

And you´ve got the Rubayyat, too

posted by fak119 at 9:29 am (EST) on Mar 27, 2007

Is it on purpose that you don't link to the faq about tag search (http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...) from your GFAQ?

posted by sunny at 6:15 pm (EST) on Feb 26, 2007

Hi Bob,

I found a couple of links on John Blyberg's blog for a catalog card generator, if that sounds like what you're after, the links are: http://www.blyberg.net/card-generator/ and also a blog entry at http://www.blyberg.net/2006/01/19/creati... .

Regards, Andrew.

posted by AndrewB at 3:37 pm (EST) on Feb 25, 2007

Hi Bob

Two more questions I mentioned to Abby as being frequent (apart from the wishlist and those already covered in the official FAQ):

- can I subsort my books by a second column?

- can I make a part of my books / tags (/ comments?) private?

Bonne journée :-)

posted by sunny at 3:47 am (EST) on Feb 21, 2007

http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...

Do you want to add the codes for [ and ] (when they should be displayed, not changed to a touchstone)?

In general I do find it a bit confusing that you use + as bullets in lists, as the + so often is part of the code you want to explain. But that might be just me :-)

posted by sunny at 2:34 pm (EST) on Feb 20, 2007

I saw your list of HTML tags in the FAQ post but could you please explain what each one does? I know i (italics) and b (bold) and that's it.

posted by kageeh at 6:07 am (EST) on Feb 20, 2007

Just a quick note to say I admire the patience with which you reply to the 'wishlist?' question about once every half hour. I'd probably have changed my reply from 'use a tag' to 'email Abby about it' long ago ;-)

I just did so and asked her to put it on the official FAQ (it _is_ hard to believe it's not there yet..).

posted by sunny at 5:23 am (EST) on Feb 19, 2007

Hi Greyhead, yeah I saw Yahoo Pipes briefly the other night - it would be terrific for some kind of mega-all-combined LT feed. I'm playing around with it now, however it's a shame we don't have a feed for recent posts to all your groups, it could form a nice "news" feed combining recent reviews of items in your catalogue, recent messages in your groups, blog posts etc.

posted by AndrewB at 1:48 am (EST) on Feb 13, 2007

Well, if the guy who writes the books doesn't know/have just the right word, I guess I'm off the hook for having to know it! :-) Thanks for asking him, though, and thanks to him for answering.

posted by pdxwoman at 1:55 pm (EST) on Feb 11, 2007

Frequentyl answered questions: as long as the group is private, nobody can see the threads or watch the group. That's not on purpose, is it' ;-)

posted by sunny at 4:12 am (EST) on Feb 11, 2007

is that your pix?
smart....
you into what fiction?

posted by blackpig at 10:38 am (EST) on Feb 9, 2007

I have come late to work with computers and programs, and they are still very puzzling to me... But there you are, solving my problems every time that I find myself at a loss! Again, thanks for your help.

posted by Romanus at 10:40 pm (EST) on Feb 8, 2007

Thanks, Bob! I've been asking people for weeks but no one seems to know the answer. Looking forward to finally finding just the right tag word...

posted by pdxwoman at 1:44 am (EST) on Feb 7, 2007

Hi! I'm wondering if you remembered to ask Tom what his books are called (by genre, I suppose is what I'm asking). Thanks...

posted by pdxwoman at 2:45 am (EST) on Feb 6, 2007

No bug. I was working in the account I set up for my friend and realized the comments I had left you originally were under his name, so I logged back in under my name and reposted the comments. Sorry for the confusion. :)

posted by Selune at 5:12 pm (EST) on Jan 26, 2007

Ohoh. One other thing. I was going through the manual highlighting stuff, and thought maybe it would be a good idea, under the "Using the :CueCat with LibraryThing" section, a blurb that it's a good idea to put some tags in before scanning, as they will add automatically as well. Just a thought. :) I always forget to do that and halfway in have to go back and add all my tags. Grrr.

posted by Selune at 1:55 am (EST) on Jan 26, 2007

Am sending a gift package off to a friend today.
It includes:
Newly created LT account info (I set up an account for him)
Modified CueCat
Three Tom Holt books (The Portable Door; In Your Dreams; and Earth, Air, Fire, and Custard), pre-loaded into LT, of course.
Supernatural Season One DVD Pack (cause I love that show)
and........drum roll please.......a very lovely, well-put-together CueCat manual by the very competent Bob Janes. {clap, clap, clap}

Really love the manual. It looks so professional. I almost want to print it glossy. :)

posted by Selune at 1:55 am (EST) on Jan 26, 2007

Hello,
We share a title, Dean's Gift Book of Fairy Tales by Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone, but yours is listed without the author(s), i.e. the illustrators. Would you mind adding them on? Thanks,
Amy

posted by SaintSunniva at 5:52 pm (EST) on Jan 13, 2007

Hey,

Your :CueCat PDF Guide was really helpful. One thing that I had trouble with that you may be adding, but that I didn't see in v2, is the issue of keyboard layout. I use the Dvorak keyboard layout and had to switch it back to QWERTY for the :CueCat output to be interpreted correctly.

posted by hydeph at 2:18 pm (EST) on Dec 23, 2006

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the message. I've only just started on my catalog, I'm maybe 20% done ...
From what I see so far, we share a lot of interests. Brittany isn't all that far from the Paris suburbs ... I'll probably be visiting your area sometime in the Spring. Let me know if you'd like to meet sometime.

Brian
btball@gmail.com

posted by btball at 5:07 pm (EST) on Dec 18, 2006

Hello there,

You mention in your :CueCat .pdf that the PS/2 version needs drivers to work on Windows XP. I have a PS/2 version and I'm running Windows XP and I can't get it to work. The red light is on, but when I scan things, noting happens. I don't get gibberish or anything (I declawed it), I just get nothing. I've tried this on multiple bar codes with the curser in Notepad).

I was wondering if you knew where to get the drivers that make this baby work, all my google results have turned up dead links or irrelevant junk.

Thanks!

posted by stufff at 8:05 pm (EST) on Dec 8, 2006

Hi Bob,

Thanks for your suggestions -- we actually tried contacting Tim a while back but never heard back from him. I wish I had thought of emailing Abby before -- she probably would have been able to get back to me sooner.

Unfortunately, this research project is only for a quarter-long research methods class and not a Masters thesis. If we had more time to develop this project, figure out better ways to contact participants and collect data, etc, I doubt we would have run into as many problems (and annoyed as many people!). Our quarter ends in 2 weeks -- and we still have to analyze the results, write them up & present them to the class. In fact we've already gotten so many responses to the survey that we'll probably close it tonight, just to ensure that we can spend enough time with the data we've already collected.

Your point about the "strategy" question is well-taken -- I think examples would help people better understand what we were after, but then again such examples might also slant the way they answered the question. So we deliberately tried to have our first set of questions be as open-ended as possible in order to try to get participants' responses in their own words, without imposing our own viewpoint on them. Of course, you're never really "free" of your own viewpoint as a social scientist; but you can still strive to allow people a chance to respond in their own words as much as possible.

Thank you so much for taking the time to offer advice and complete the survey, and also to call me out on my breach of netiquette. I really appreciate your feedback and ideas! I don't know if we'll post the paper anywhere itself, but we will probably write up an executive summary of the research and post it somewhere on the web for interested folks to look at. I'm learning a lot from this experience in many ways, and it's in large part because LibraryThingers like yourself have been so generous with their time and comments.

Thanks again,
Abby

posted by circadia at 5:40 pm (EST) on Nov 20, 2006

Hi,

I just wanted to respond to your comment -- I apologize if the multiple posts felt like spam. Unfortunately LibraryThing doesn't have a central location where a general post of this nature could be seen by a wide variety of LT users. So we tried to compensate for this and hopefully get a more random sample by posting to the groups with the most members and the most traffic. I understand that this meant a lot of people saw the same post multiple times and I truly apologize for any annoyance this may have caused. If you have a better idea about how I could do this without being as obtrusive, I'd really appreciate your suggestions. This is our first time doing this kind of research, and we're trying to learn, so any advice/suggestions would be most helpful.

Thanks,
Abby

posted by circadia at 5:47 pm (EST) on Nov 19, 2006

Kudos to you on how you took Chris' wording in his blog. It's his space, yes - but he's not really living up to his parents' advice there..

posted by sunny at 5:39 am (EST) on Nov 8, 2006

Odd. It wasn't showing as a link for me. Maybe it's a browser thing. Thanks for letting me know! (I sometimes think I worry too much about these things. I guess it's the obsessive lawyer in me!)

posted by lilithcat at 10:50 am (EST) on Nov 7, 2006

A tip: if you're uploading a photo with a creative commons license, it's a good idea to link to the license so that it's clear which CC license is used. That way, there's no confusion, since some CC licenses would not permit uploading to LT.

posted by lilithcat at 10:38 am (EST) on Nov 7, 2006

Thank you for explaining how to do a "partial" search in my tags!

posted by ggchickapee at 11:53 am (EST) on Nov 6, 2006

Hello GreyHead

I contact you here as I'm not sure you get the comments on CupCakeMonster's account ;-)

- Could you please read through the introduction on the bug collectors group (the part that was written before the group was moved to 'standing groups') and see if you want to change some of it?

- I have a comment on my profile from sanxiyn, could you please make it into a topic on the bug collector's group? (I was about to tell him to do so himself, but then it occured to me that he only had done what he'd been asked to do: "... ask them to verify and post it ...")

sanxiyn's comment:
"For Bug Collectors group: when you in-place edit the original language, after the save, the link points to ...&language=eng instead of ...&originallanguage=eng. Clicking it goes to the wrong page. After reload this is fixed."

posted by sanxiyn at 8:51 pm (EST) on Oct 13, 2006

Thank you very much :-)

sunny

posted by sunny at 5:01 am (EST) on Oct 15, 2006

Thanks for sending on the note. I'd noticed the overlap very early on and then noticed that you have a background in consulting. I seem to wander around in what interests me reading wise between fiction and non-fiction. I'm focused on bioinformatics at the moment. I love Erdman's stuff as he had a great way of both describing places in Switzerland that I'm familiar with as well as bringing his banking experience to bear in fiction.

posted by swaltersky at 12:10 pm (EST) on Oct 8, 2006

Just a quick note to say `thanks` for answering our `to Abe or not to Abe` question recently.

For what it`s worth, we`re going to take a much-needed break and on our return, sell on both Abe and Ebay for a while and see how it goes.

Thanks once again for taking the time to reply.

Nick + Ann-Marie
Hoonaloon Books and Bits
Hoon170

posted by nickhoonaloon at 1:38 pm (EST) on Sep 4, 2006

Hey, Bob, I went to delete your extra thread you mentioned, and found there's no longer a 'delete this thread' function available, so we'll just live with two threads for a while, no problem-o.

posted by LouisBranning at 10:43 am (EST) on Sep 2, 2006

Bob - thanks! Zach

posted by zachstern at 10:26 pm (EST) on May 19, 2006

Hi Bob,

As you say, just curious about LibraryThing. It's nowhere near as good as a catalogue application as BookCat, but this may not be the point. If the zeitgeist feature compensates for the catalogue shortcomings, then fine; otherwise I'm back with BookCat...

posted by gcoupe at 3:41 am (EST) on Nov 10, 2005