Member: Scorbet
CollectionsYour library (3,842), Ebooks (3,825), Verified (1,177), To read (1,519), Currently reading (11), Read but unowned (42), Not epubbed (61), Treeware (1,919), Wrong edition (17), All collections (5,744)
Reviews17 reviews
Tagscalibre (1,172), ebook (792), tbr (620), import 2 (586), read2008 (266), fiction (97), epub (87), mystery (77), vfd (73), 888 (63) — see all tags
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About meI'm a (chemical) engineer currently living in Shanghai, previously in Frankfurt, but originally from Ireland. I'm interested in history, particularly medieval history, and have started trying to learn more about Chinese history.
About my libraryI appear to have begun recording reading dates and writing reviews of books, as I read or re-read them. (All dates mentioned are for the latest read, which is not automatically the first time.)
My catalog here is still in a bit of a mess, but I'm trying to slowly fix it, one book at a time.
Most of my paper books are a couple of thousand miles away, so I can only really access the ebooks.
Books in the "To read" collection are in some state of not read - I may be part way through, half-abandoned them several years ago or not started at all!
Groups15th Century Europe, 18th-19th Century Britain, 888 Challenge, Almack's, Amateur Historians, Ask LibraryThing, British & Irish Crime Fiction, Bug Collectors, Combiners!, Crime, Thriller & Mystery —show all groups, Go Review That Book!, Historical Fiction, Historical Mysteries, History Fans, Irish Librarythingers, Legacy Libraries, Medieval Europe, Mistress of the Art of Death ~ Early Summer 2009 Reading Group, More Power to the Date Fields!, Name that Book, Ngaio Marsh Appreciation Society, Old Mystery & Detective Club, Read YA Lit, Readers Under 30, Richard III, Roman and Dark Ages Britain, The Europe Endless Challenge, The Scepter'd Isle, medieval history of England, 500 to 1500 AD, The SF&F Book Chat, Tortall Universe Fans
Favorite authorsJane Austen, Steven Brust, Lois McMaster Bujold, Jennifer Crusie, Diane Duane, Dorothy Dunnett, Patricia Finney, Georgette Heyer, Guy Gavriel Kay, Sharon Lee, Scott Lynch, Ngaio Marsh, George R. R. Martin, J. K. Rowling, Dorothy L. Sayers, Charles Stross, Patricia C. Wrede (Shared favorites)
VenuesFavorites | Visited
Favorite bookstoresBorders - Blanchardstown, Brentano's, British Bookshop Frankfurt, Chapters Bookstore, Forbidden Planet - London, Hodges Figgis, Hugendubel - Frankfurt, Oxfam Bücher - Frankfurt, Readers Corner, Shanghai Foreign Language Bookstore 上海外文图书公司, Thalia - Nordwest-Zentrum Frankfurt, The Munich Readery, Waterstone's Piccadilly, WHSmith Paris
Favorite librariesDun Laoghaire-Rathdown Public Libraries - Dún Laoghaire Library, Stadtbücherei Frankfurt am Main - Zentralbibliothek mit Musikbibliothek, Trinity College Library, Dublin
Favorite publishersOrbit Books
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LocationShanghai, China
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Member sinceSep 5, 2006
Currently readingDie Hüter der Rose : historischer Roman by Rebecca Gablé
An autumn war by Daniel Abraham
Intrusion by Ken MacLeod
Daughter of Xanadu by Dori Jones Yang
Red Star Over China by Edgar Snow
Flora Segunda by Ysabeau S. Wilce
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
Lord Valentine’s Castle by Robert Silverberg
Böser Wolf by Nele Neuhaus
Possession by A. S. Byatt
Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton
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Favorite Authors, and for the advice about
the "Recommendations" feature. (The
"Should Borrow. . .").
I don't find any "Include in Recommendations"
on the Reommendations page, or on the page
where the listings of my own collections start.
I do get a statement that my library doesn't
have the necessary minimum of books (10-15) in it!
But I do have over 1.000 that are free of whatever
the "Wish List" status may be doing to impede them.
I've been advised something like this before --
but in muchless clear language than yhou're giving me.
I was wondering if the advice meant that I had
to take ALL the items, one by one, and give them
the recommendation status?
But if it has to do with the "Onclude in Recommendations"
checkbox, I just plain don;t know where that is!
Thanks, in any case.
posted by rolandperkins at 7:10 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2013
how to edit the "Favorite Authors"
section.
posted by rolandperkins at 3:35 pm (EST) on Feb 15, 2013
Thanks again.
Best regards,
Mike
posted by Michael_A_Cahill at 3:59 am (EST) on Aug 21, 2012