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Library1,561 books — see library

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Tagsstscheckisbn (230), philately (47), climbing (43), science fiction (42), stamp collecting (31), stamps (30), flute (29), atlas (27) — see all tags

GroupsClassical Music, Combiners!, English Wikipedia, Free Software, Gardening, Late Roman, Maps and Atlases, Military History, Naval History and Fiction, Nevadans Who Read! — show all groups

Favorite authorsFernand Braudel, C.S. Forester, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julian May, Richard Powers, Thomas Pynchon, Kim Stanley Robinson, Neal Stephenson, J.R.R. Tolkien (Shared favorites)

About me Software engineer with eclectic interests, very focused on botany right now. Also active on Wikipedia, transcribing what's inside the books... :-)

About my library Thirty years of accumulation, with a little bit of everything; my goal is a well-rounded library, with at least one book for every subject. I cull a few from time to time.

Lots of computer science from the 1980s, some depth in philately, sailing ships, ancient history, military history, travel, climbing/hiking, and classical flute. An assortment of modern novels; it seems I'm a fan of Thomas Pynchon and Richard Powers. I keep an eye out for older books, but am too cheap to have bought anything rare. :-)

I've read nearly all of it (not counting reference works), even the unabridged Gibbon, which headed off insomnia for two years all by itself!

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Real nameStan Shebs

LocationLas Vegas, Nevada

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Member sinceFeb 20, 2007

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Keeping track of periodicals is a daunting chore. I have a lot of my philatelic holdings on an MS Access database on my oldest functioning computer that still has DOS 3.2.1. It's like a boat that I've built in my basement and is now too big to fit out the door.:-) My first impression for dealing with these is to use something compact like what's in the Union List of Serials. From a Wikipedian perspecive of verifiability it becomes a problem in how best to share information when you know that what you have may be rare or even potentially the sole surviving example of an old magazine. You want to share information, but you don't want the rare material to grow legs.

The other interesting problem here is with tagging. It is considerably more anarchic here than the category system in Wikipedia. We know from our WP experience that some people can become absolutely rigid about categories. Professional librarians have all sorts of reference materials about how to do this sensibly, but here things are still random enough that I can't be sure when somebody else has another resource about what I'm looking for.

posted by Eclecticology at 12:57 pm (EST) on Mar 2, 2007

I've been around, but just haven't spent any time using the facility. When I mentioned the site a year ago on the mailing list I did not receive any enthusiastic response so I just took a wait and see attitude until I saw the recent comments. Now I know there are other Wikipedians here! I've only started entering stuff, so 37 is only a beginning. My collection of philatelic periodicals has over 20,000 items. To put that in perspective, I already have a 90% complete run of American Philatelist. I hope that's unreasonable enough. :-)

posted by Eclecticology at 3:12 pm (EST) on Mar 1, 2007

Greetings! We seem to have similar tastes in fiction. :-)

posted by mindspillage at 10:38 pm (EST) on Feb 27, 2007

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