Member: MarthaJeanne
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Groups888 Challenge, 999 Challenge, Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts, Bug Collectors, Combiners!, Cookbookers, Fiber Arts, German Library Thingers, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Monthly Author Reads
Favorite authorsRobert Alter, Raymond E. Brown, Catherine Cookson, Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Elizabeth David, Rumer Godden, Ainsley Harriott, Georgette Heyer, Roberta Hunt, Madhur Jaffrey, Jeffrey John, Beryl Kingston, Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz, Ormonde Plater, David M. Rhoads, Claudia Roden, Linn R. Skinner, Gene Stratton-Porter, N. T. Wright, Frances M. Young (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresBook Shop Dorothy Singer, British Bookshop, Freytag & Berndt Reisebuchhandlung, Morawa, Tyrolia Buchhandlung
Favorite librariesHauptbücherei Wien
About meI'm in the 11 in 11 challenge
http://www.librarything.com/topic/96717
http://www.librarything.com/topic/96719
http://www.librarything.com/topic/96718
I've started a major check and classification of all the owned books so that I can find them more easily.
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/User:MarthaJeanne
About my libraryAbout collections:
I'm keeping 30 books in Currently Reading. This includes books I recently read and the books earmarked to read next (=Reading Now). It also includes a few books that I am working on very slowly. When a new book is added to the collection the one with the earliest read date is removed. That means that about the past two-three weeks is included.
MJ is everything I feel connected to - either owned or read. Steven is books he owns, most of which are not included in MJ. Jerry is his books - suspense, mostly, that I don't read. Books need to be in at least one of these, but there is some overlap.
Owned fiction is for the benefit of those borrowing from the library. It pulls things that are in different places together. (And includes some marginal stuff that we keep with fiction.) If you are looking at coloured checkmarks - the green ones and the grey ones we own.
'My books' is things on our bookshelves that I don't exclude as being only of interest to my menfolk. If it's in MJ, it's supposed to also be in 'My Books' or 'Read but unowned'. There is one exception here - a book I was discarding, but my husband decided to keep. It's in 'MJ' because I did read it, but not in 'My books' because I don't want to own it, but I can't really call it unowned either.
There are three topic collections: Theology, Textiles and Crafts, and Food. These are collections because I do collect them, and have quite a few. Being able to see just these in list form is useful.
I'm slowly getting everything in. So far all of my needlework books and the cookbooks are in (unless there are stragglers not on the shelf they belong on), a fair number of the travel books, a fair amount of the fiction, and about 95% of my theology books. My son says I have done all the science fiction, but more may be hiding under his bed. What is almost totally missing is Jerry's suspense collection.
The recommended style of viewing is only important for those actually using the theology books. (Comments includes shelving information.) Eventually I may get shelving information for other collections in, too. But that's for after most of our books are in. Not this year!
The first tag is always indicates where the book is shelved. So all of Bill Bryson's books are labeled 'fiction'. We keep them together filed under his name in the fiction bookcase rather than separating them by topic. On the other hand, there is a fair amount of fiction with 'theology' as the first tag because I keep them in (a fiction area of) my theology collection. If a book is tagged 'Steven' it belongs to my son, and I take no responsibility for it. If it doesn't say 'Steven' it might still be his, but I probably have read it, or might read it now that I know he has it. If a tag begins with @, I don't own that book, and that tag says where I got it from.
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Member sinceMar 16, 2007
Currently readingPrayer and worship by Douglas V. Steere
New Europe by Michael Palin
April lady by Georgette Heyer
The foundling by Georgette Heyer
Lies my teacher told me : everything your American history textbook got wrong by James W. Loewen
God is not great : how religion poisons everything by Christopher Hitchens
Bridges explained : viaducts - aqueducts by Trevor Yorke
Walking on water : exploring the arteries of England by Nick Corble
Die Beutefrau: Roman um die letzte Liebe Karls des Großen by Martina Kempff
Nature : Simple healthy and good by Alain Ducasse
Peninsula of lies : a true story of mysterious birth and taboo love by Edward Ball
Die Red-Bull-Story : der unglaubliche Erfolg des Dietrich Mateschitz by Wolfgang Fürweger
Caribbean by James A. Michener
Golden moments by Danielle Steel
Literacy Learning in the early years by Caroline Barratt-Pugh
Wanderings : Chaim Potok's history of the Jews by Chaim Potok
Zwischen Licht und Dunkel : Abenteuer Alltag in Island by Ursula Spitzbart
David und Salomo: Archäologen entschlüsseln einen Mythos by Israel Finkelstein
The Jewish Annotated New Testament by Amy-Jill Levine
Hadschi Halef Omar und der Frauenräuber von Serdascht by Karl May
Mein Leben für eine Kirche, die den Menschen dient by Helmut Krätzl
Der Hundertjährige, der aus dem Fenster stieg und verschwand: Roman by Jonas Jonasson
The idle parent by Tom Hodgkinson
Granny Dan by Danielle Steel
Von lachenden Zebras und verliebten Löwen by Gerhard Kunze
The world to come by Dara Horn
The Welsh girl by Peter Ho Davies
Quasi Herr Karl : Helmut Qualtinger Kultfigur aus Wien by Georg Biron
Under the Vale by Mercedes Lackey
The unknown Ajax by Georgette Heyer
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Thanks for the nice remarks. Unfortunately the Presse and Standard have written nothing about the exhibit. Also, I have still not seen any posters or advertisements. The KHM just does not want us to have a success story.
Oh well, I feel the exhibition is one of the best in the last few years. Benin and African Lace also belong in the excellent category.
But if nobody comes,,,,
greetings, John
posted by johninvienna at 7:00 am (EST) on Feb 3, 2012
Sitting right now in the Museum working on the Jahreshauptversammlung. Yes, we really could use your talents. I am translating text for a pseudo catalogue for the Naga exhibition and for texts for the exhibition itself. I would very much appreciate a second (and even third) look through.
Would you like to see the original, or would you like to just correct my English.
greetings, John
by the way, I am doing disambiguations, but am having trouble with assigning works sometimes. I will make a bug announcement - can you take a look?
posted by johninvienna at 11:57 am (EST) on Nov 29, 2011
It's here somewhere.
Give me a call - and perhaps we can have coffee in my office. Cell phone 069910968603
Depending on work, Maybe I will come to the coconut demonstration, have not visited one of the "Senioren" gatherings yet.
Greetings, JOHN
PS. I am having trouble with Russian text in LT - did you see my messages?
posted by johninvienna at 6:17 pm (EST) on Oct 18, 2011
It's here somewhere.
Give me a call - and perhaps we can have coffee in my office. Cell phone 069910968603
Depending on work, Maybe I will come to the coconut demonstration, have not visited one of the "Senioren" gatherings yet.
Greetings, JOHN
PS. I am having trouble with Russian text in LT - did you see my messages?
posted by johninvienna at 6:17 pm (EST) on Oct 18, 2011
posted by lilithcat at 12:13 pm (EST) on Aug 25, 2011
I am afraid not. I have a hundred things to do before I leave. I am flying to Beijing and Chengdu Sunday/Monday. A week in Chengdu then to Tibet and Yunnan. Will be back either 17 September or a bit earlier.
I have the book reserved for you!
greetings, John
posted by johninvienna at 8:50 am (EST) on Jul 21, 2011
I am sorry I have not answered earlier. I did miss you at our NAGALAND textile demonstration last Thursday. Dr. Schicklgruber showed some 80 pictures of our trip together [many taken by me] and, of course, he did mention me as I purchased all the new objects we will be showing.
The Nagaland Exhibition has been postponed till mid January 2012 and I am very excited about it. Circa 50 items from my collection, along with several hundred from Christof Führer-Haimendorf, will be on display. I am not happy about the title - but this is not the place to discuss that.
I do hope you have not bought Glanz & Glorie : die Pracht des Barock in neuen Klosterarbeiten! I have purchased it for you (gift) and hope to hand it to you at the museum sometime.
Right now I am preparing my trip to Tibet and Yunnan with Bill Holaday. We leave in two weeks from Sunday.
Greetings to Jerry!
All the best, John
posted by johninvienna at 6:41 pm (EST) on Jul 9, 2011
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posted by TooBrightToShine at 4:18 pm (EST) on Jun 10, 2011
The Museum für Völkerkunde library is open to the public Monday to Thursday. You only need a Meldezettel in order to borrow books. I believe the period is one month, although I am sure if you show your membership you can have longer time. They also have a great selection of magazines.
At the following website you can find all the information. Please note the the library has different opening hours from the musuem, look at the BOTTOM of the box at the right of the site:
http://www.khm.at/mvk/bibliothek/
greetings from AltErlaa, I am an the end of next week in India for over six weeks!
JOHN
posted by johninvienna at 8:48 am (EST) on Mar 10, 2011
posted by bruce_krafft at 8:45 pm (EST) on Feb 28, 2011
We should be getting some interesting press coverage, maybe not all positive!
greetings, John
posted by johninvienna at 6:00 pm (EST) on Feb 16, 2011
I hope it came with a membership card! We are struggling to keep up - the lady in the Sekretariat is on extended leave - her mother is very very ill.
Thanks for your patience!
JOHN
posted by johninvienna at 5:32 pm (EST) on Feb 16, 2011
I was there on Saturday for the Indonesian Café and lecture. Food was good and a whole plate cost only 5€. Ambassador was there and we had another chat. He is interested in LibraryThing and would like to have me show it to them - I think this summer or fall would be good, as I have at least 200-300 books on Indonesia still to catalogue.
greetings from Alt-Erlaa,
JOHN
posted by johninvienna at 12:25 pm (EST) on Feb 6, 2011
But I do have an electronic invitation for you for tonight!
greetings, John
posted by johninvienna at 6:43 am (EST) on Feb 1, 2011
posted by johninvienna at 6:40 am (EST) on Feb 1, 2011
posted by johninvienna at 12:24 pm (EST) on Jan 24, 2011
I see Tim is looking at the "No Sources" Issue!
posted by johninvienna at 12:23 pm (EST) on Jan 24, 2011
Well I will be off to NAGALAND in little over three weeks. I have several things to ask you!
1.Did you get MfV membership, If not I will send material.
2. Would you like to join our BALI opening on Tuesday, February 1 (music, dance, food), I can send you a special invitation!
3. YOU ALSO HAVE A SOURCE PROBLEM: PLEASE LOOK AT THE BOOKS YOU ENTERED TODAY: I HAVE NOTICED THIS A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO; HAVE NOT GOT MUCH RESPONSE FROM MEMBERS; I AM AFRAID THIS INFORMATION WILL SIMPLY BE ALWAYS MISSING:
I am a bit of a source fetishist - so it would be a big help if you could take a look!
greetings, John
posted by johninvienna at 3:45 pm (EST) on Jan 23, 2011
Thanks for your patience,
Connie
posted by connie53 at 10:35 am (EST) on Jan 6, 2011
If i need to do other stuff, I will do that tomorrow, because after diner I'n leaving to visit my brother.
Grts, Connie
posted by connie53 at 10:01 am (EST) on Jan 5, 2011
Hi Martha Jeanne
This is the situation:
There is: The Redemption of Anthalus (one book 900+ pages)
In dutch there are:
De verlossing van Anthalus (the exact translation of the title of the complete edition)(The first part of the book above, +/- 450 pages)
In dienst van de Godin (The second part of the book above, +/- 450 pages)
I don't know if there are other countries where the original edition is separated into 2 books.
And sorry for leaving LT yesterdayevening so suddenly, but my day started very early this morning and I really needed some sleep.
I do appreciate your help and try to follow your tips a good as I can.
So thank you!
Connie
posted by connie53 at 11:27 am (EST) on Jan 4, 2011
I'v combined the several editions of the second book that were on the editions list. A Capital letter can make much difference I see. One Godin and one godin.
But if I have two books, I want to add 2 covers of course and not the two books in one entry. Or am i misunderstanding your message?
posted by connie53 at 5:24 pm (EST) on Jan 3, 2011
posted by connie53 at 5:10 pm (EST) on Jan 3, 2011
Nice to hear from you. Could I ask you another question.
Is there a standard (is that an English word? And I'm Dutch, my English is not very good, but sufficient)way to seperate a book (The Redemption Of Althalus) that is published in The Netherlands as 2 books. I have added my 2 books. And made a remark that it is originally one book. I hope that that is sufficient.
I wish you a very happy new year, all the best for 2011.
Grts, Connie
posted by connie53 at 12:18 pm (EST) on Jan 3, 2011
Yes, sorry I was in the Museum on Wednesday and mailed out over 400 letters (some with new memberships already paid, some with Erlagscheine for the new year). I am afraid you were not in our mailing list. I will be sure you are mailed a letter next week. If you pay for two full memberships (60€ for both), you both get an identity card with free entrance to all KHM institutions, if you pay 45, only one, with the other allowing only free entrance to the MVK and special events.
As soon as you pay we will forward the new cards to you!
We have 5 exhibitions coming in 2011 and Museum will not be closed at all (except on Tuesdays, of course)!
In LT I have had my two year anniversary (Dec. 11), have entered over 2,500 books, and, as of today scanned over 2000 covers! I am only missing less than 20 (some I have to photograph, they are too large to scan)!
greetings from AltErlaa, John
posted by johninvienna at 10:57 am (EST) on Dec 26, 2010
A very Merry Christmas for you and Jerry!
John
posted by johninvienna at 4:03 pm (EST) on Dec 22, 2010
posted by Cody_Unterseher at 4:27 pm (EST) on Dec 8, 2010
Hope that helps -- and thank you for yours!
posted by Cody_Unterseher at 2:44 pm (EST) on Dec 8, 2010
the "...Into the wrong collection"
thread (16) on Adding and Editing.
posted by rolandperkins at 3:09 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2010
Having a great time visiting museums in Los Angeles area. Yesterday at the Bowers in Santa Ana, today at the Fowler at UCLA and tomorrow at the Getty!
I will have a big mailing problem in Sacramento. I will be back on Halloween evening! See you in November, I hope!
Greetings, John
posted by johninvienna at 11:04 pm (EST) on Oct 15, 2010
posted by pammab at 5:19 pm (EST) on Sep 19, 2010
MAny thanks for your comprehensive evaluation of "Talking Heads". Actually I kind of liked the exhibition - it was one of the few I have seen with coins where I actually looked at the money!
But, the reason I am writing, is could you look at:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/97861
Tim answered and I made the change I thought most appropriate. The "Verlag Galerie Welz Salzburg" is on the title page, and I thought putting it in brackets would be ok.
Being an expert Combiner (and Seperator) do you see a problem with my solution?
Greetings from Alterlaa, John
posted by johninvienna at 6:27 pm (EST) on Sep 1, 2010
Thank you for the commentary. I'm afraid I erred with the date of edition. I own only one book, published in 1981.
posted by h-mb at 1:34 pm (EST) on Sep 1, 2010
Well that got some fast responses! Tim already answered! see the discussion:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/96914#2145624
Now if I show a picture of me in the Lobau (30 years ago), I wonder what the response would be?
Anyway, I wanted to see what they thought!
Looking forward to Saturday
JOHN
posted by johninvienna at 2:50 pm (EST) on Aug 17, 2010
Thanks for your suggestions on my library! I have to admit though, I'm not sure what you mean by "combining" and "Combiners". Do you mean adding the book that more users have added? Also, when I add authors, do I just type it into the book details, or do I need to re-search the author and book and add it into my library?
Thanks for your help! I've only added one bookshelf so far. You have an impressive number of books! And yes, I am a big Jane Austen fan.
posted by shaolibrary at 10:52 am (EST) on Aug 6, 2010
http://www.librarything.com/work/8572727/details
John
posted by johninvienna at 9:33 pm (EST) on Jul 27, 2010
Thanks for the two mails. I will order some books from your recommendation from yesterday.
Good grief - Museum für Völkerkunde
Yes, all the books under (1) are MfV Wien - but some have proper authors and should not be put under the museum (many libraries do this and if there are several authors and not one principal one I do this as well, giving the authors under add. authors). This is why I have museums also in TAGS.
But the books under (2) are not from Museum für Völkerkunde (Leipzig) see details of duffy_duck entry (he is a dealer from Graz - I know him)
http://www.librarything.com/work/8572727/members
however under his details,and not work details, although there is only one copy in LT, Berlin is given correctly
http://www.librarything.com/work/8572727/details/47490900
To make matters worse the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin has been renamed Ethnologisches Museum. (At the time of publication is was Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde (Berlin). So the Museum name given on the work is incorrect (Leipzig), on the details of duffy its the name the museum had after WWI but not at the time of pub. and not now!
Good grief!!!
I think I will have to have a lesson or two from you on canonical names.
Enough for tonight! I will enter a number of MfV books soon and lets further clean up the authors then!
greetings from Alterlaa, John
posted by johninvienna at 9:31 pm (EST) on Jul 27, 2010
Again, thanks for your help and words of encouragement. Also for the compliment - but who is Jerry?
Have you seen any of the current exhibitions in the Museum für Völkerkunde? The Captain James Cook is a must, and the one on Franz Ferdinand's travels to India very interesting! I have an office in the Hofburg (rooftop - splendid view from roof)- you and your men (is one your husband or son or are they just live in friends)could come by and see both the exhibits and my office (a bit cluttered like my life)!
I would very much like to discuss LibraryThing with you. I would be very interested in expanding the sources and making more propaganda for it in foreign countries. Spoke to the Ambassador from Indonesia about it and my catalog collection last Thursday night!
I also still owe you a lunch!
Greetings from AltErlaa, John
posted by johninvienna at 7:07 am (EST) on Jul 10, 2010
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posted by infiniteletters at 10:54 am (EST) on Jul 3, 2010
I'm feeling very breezy at the moment, having just finished the first draft of my second novel and therefore able to read fiction again while the manuscript lies fallow for a month or two. Thanks again for coming to my rescue so quickly - LT harbours some lovely people and I was pretty sure someone would kindly help me!
All the best,
Joanna
posted by JoannaON at 5:27 am (EST) on Jul 3, 2010