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posted by anirose at 12:11 am (EST) on Aug 24, 2009

You might like to take a look at some of the active threads in Christianity and Religion (Pro and Con) at the moment. Some are interesting; some have descended into the usual fixed positions, albeit fairly civilly.

Cheers!
John

posted by johnthefireman at 12:46 am (EST) on Aug 20, 2009

Tid, I've missed your posts recently until I just bumped into you again on the "Inane Reviews" thread. Have you been absent for a while, or have we just been posting on different threads?

Cheers!
John

posted by johnthefireman at 11:23 am (EST) on Aug 19, 2009

Thanks. Got it.

posted by timspalding at 2:35 pm (EST) on Jul 3, 2009

Thank you for participating in my new thread

posted by callmejacx at 8:32 pm (EST) on Jun 18, 2009

Inviting some people to the thread I just started. Thought it might be of interest to you.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/66785

posted by callmejacx at 9:54 pm (EST) on Jun 13, 2009

hello
another music video, look for Richard Starkey on drums.
that's quite a brew-ha-ha on the Science thread. Rule42 is not such a bad fellow, really. in the end a very entertaining discussion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xJ_agcMy...

Some say the Sphinx will end in fire
Some say ice
But what I've wasted in desire
Fire is dire, and no one will enquire.

posted by Porius at 5:10 am (EST) on Jun 8, 2009

It's later here than for you in the UK, I have to leave LT. I'll address your msg 66 in "What is life? Does it ..." tomorrow, unless somebody else has written something I mainly agree with, and what's the chance of that? :)

posted by jimroberts at 3:09 pm (EST) on Jun 2, 2009

Last one didn't work out so well, here's another one by the Kinks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz64hWng2...

posted by Porius at 2:12 pm (EST) on May 26, 2009

Hi - it's a while since I've been on librarything, so you probably don't remember leaving a comment on my page! I just wish everyone was 'anal' about the covers - I keep finding that the null cover for my edition is wrong, because several members have chosen some random cover that they like, or perhaps because they've got the right cover but the wrong edition details. I like the right cover, if only because I helps me to remember where the book is.

posted by marxones at 7:18 am (EST) on May 23, 2009

> Hi - I'm still confused. What I do is "Add books", then do a search on title and author. What comes up on the right hand side is a list of editions of that book. What I do then is find in that list the edition (hard/paper, publisher, year) that most corresponds to the copy I either own (or read), and click it. Then, I try to find the right cover using Edit book (or add my own scanned cover if not present). At that point I'm happy, I have added the book I want - the right edition, the right cover, and all seems well.
So I'm still a bit confused! (I have my books sorted by Title by the way - it seemed to be the default view and I never thought to change it). <

Yes, you're not doing anything wrong or even unusual. "all seems well", and all is well until you someday want to see your books sorted by author and you wonder why Pratchett is up there before Allingham. Relatively new users quite often ask for help when this happens, it's not just me making a fuss about nothing.

The problem is that LT has to just has to accept the information that the source (in your case, for this book, amazon.com) gives it. And when you wander round Talk a bit more, you'll find people complaining that data from Amazon are sometimes wrong, and hints on how to ask Amazon to fix its entries, which I understand it usually readily does. Sources other than Amazon aren't always right either: ultimately somebody has typed this stuff somewhere and we all make mistakes.

As long as it's not bothering you, you can just leave it alone. Or you can double click on author in the entry for Soul Music, make it say "Pratchett, Terry", and click the save button.

posted by jimroberts at 12:27 pm (EST) on May 20, 2009

> Hi Jim - as I spend nearly all my time on the Talk pages, I'm still a novice about how LT works in many things. I'm puzzled though - I clicked your "here" link, then clicked on the book, and it came up in its main page with over 4,000 members and 22 reviews, so surely it must be the right book and author? Not quite sure what you meant? <

If you sort your library by author, you will see that the first few books have no author, then the next one is Soul Music, but The Unadulterated Cat comes much further down, maybe on a different page depending on how you've set up your views. That's what I meant by "separates it from the other Pratchett". When you looked at the work page, I expect it said at the top "Soul Music [newline] by Terry Pratchett (otherwise under Terry Pratchett)", which sort of hints that something is wrong somewhere. If you look at the Pratchett author page, you can see "Also known as: T Pratchett, Teri Pračet, T. Pratchett, Terry Patchett, Terry Prachett, Terry Pratchet ...": there are several ways of entering the author name, all of which look the same when LT shows them as firstname lastname, but which are somehow different, but friendly Combiners have combined them.

The standard form for the name in the author field is lastname comma firstnames (there are some subtleties about how to add Jr or Sr that I can never remember). (The way the author name shows in your library is a different matter again, you choose that when defining your view.) Probably what has happened in your case is that amazon.com gave LT a bad name format for this book when you added it. If you double click on the author field for the cat book in your library, you will see "Pratchett, Terry" in the field, which is the way it should be: cancel that and double click the author for Soul Music, you will probably see "Terry Pratchett" or "Terry, Pratchett", which you can change.

Of course, when I say "way it should be", it only means that that's the way to do it if you want everything to work normally: if you never use author sort, just leave it as it is, it's doing nobody any harm.

posted by jimroberts at 10:14 am (EST) on May 20, 2009

May I say that your entry for Soul Music (here) has something wrong with the author field which separates it from the other Pratchett when sorting by author?

posted by jimroberts at 9:27 am (EST) on May 20, 2009

http://www.librarything.com/topic/64860

As you can see, I have taken your recommendations to heart.

Ka-Ching!

posted by Makifat at 3:42 pm (EST) on May 17, 2009

I used to live in Roswell. That one's true.

posted by Makifat at 11:26 pm (EST) on May 16, 2009

Quick glance at your reviews. On spot regarding Von Daniken and the Holy Blood book (I did a similar review of the latter). Another along this vein is a book called, I believe, 1421, about the alleged Chinese circumnavigation of the globe. As with Von Daniken, once the "facts" are seen in the cold light of evidence, they dissolve into a oily film upon the sea. If I didn't have some sense of conscience, I could make a lot of money perpetuating frauds such as these...

posted by Makifat at 3:20 pm (EST) on May 16, 2009

I apologize for removing the post that you were considerate enough to respond to. I removed it because I didn't want it to be twisted into fodder for a discussion that would take us too far afield from the thread, if that makes any sense.

If I could, I would re-instate it, but we don't apparently have that capability.

Too many ethical questions are based upon extreme hypothetical considerations. The Right likes to invoke the "Jack Bauer" defense, that one man at one point in time will have the means to make an either/or decision which will affect the fate of mankind, and because it may be necessary, in this hypothetical situation, to do the unthinkable, then we have carte blanche to do the unthinkable in lesser situations. An absurdly simplistic argument, but of the sort that is their stock in trade.

By the way, I don't know if you are right, left or whatever (these distinctions are a sort of shorthand, and are not that meaningful). It seems you are a fairly new person to LT. Welcome.

posted by Makifat at 3:11 pm (EST) on May 16, 2009

ETA means "Edited to add..."

posted by Carnophile at 8:54 am (EST) on May 16, 2009

Easier than that. I looked at your own library, ordered with the least commonly shared books at the top, and scrolled down until I hit a likely one.

posted by MyopicBookworm at 11:50 am (EST) on May 15, 2009

I could tell you how I did it, but then you'd probably crack mine too :-)

posted by MyopicBookworm at 11:22 am (EST) on May 15, 2009

http://us.mc463.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcom...

Here's a great clip of the Beatles. Notice Mick and Charlie Watts watching from the wings.

posted by Porius at 6:54 pm (EST) on May 13, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrmQB38aT...

A little treat for a fellow rock fan.

posted by Porius at 10:57 pm (EST) on May 8, 2009

Tid
I was late back to Prejean thread and didn't want to break out of where it is now - interesting discussion. I see w2w has commented on ETA.
They are correct ETA = Edited To Adjust. Protocol is only to do this if your post has already been read (i.e. no mulligans!).

posted by kevmalone at 11:05 pm (EST) on May 3, 2009

Saw your question in the Christianity:Carrie Prejean thread. ETA means, as far as I can tell, either "edited to add" or "edited to address." People will use it to give others a sense of what was changed on a post. LT automatically generates a "message edited by author" message, but you cannot tell after the fact whether or not the change was substantial.

posted by walk2work at 6:39 pm (EST) on May 3, 2009

We both seem to be getting bored at around the same time of day!

posted by MyopicBookworm at 7:40 am (EST) on May 1, 2009

Thanks, Tid. I started Hangman #19 with what I could remember. If you made the last guess that I couldn't see in the old thread, please try it again in the new one.

posted by Jim53 at 2:41 pm (EST) on Apr 26, 2009

OK, I lost your thread while I was checking something...

Did you know that you can change the look of your library page with the buttons at the top that are lettered "A" through (I think) "E"? Different looks will give you different information. There's also a tool button next to the last letter where, it looks like, you can choose exactly what you do and don't want to show up.

Hope this helps you out!

posted by retropelocin at 1:53 pm (EST) on Apr 18, 2009

this is just to say that i enjoyed your reviews. i've always loved Lennon, The Who, and all that lot, i've never read as much as a book, not even a chapter about them. i skimmed through a thing about Led Zepplin; i don't know why these efforts fail to move me? i guess John Lennon will always remain the character who changed my world for the . . . better, since 1964, i was a callow 13 yr. old who wasn't quite sure where he was going, or what he was ultimately going to be, but i always knew that i could listen to: YOU"RE GONNA LOSE THAT GIRL, NORWEGIAN WOOD, HIDE YOUR LOVE AWAY, or any of the other great Lennon songs. They have been a balm to my troubled spirit, lo these 45 yrs. now. oh well i just meant to compliment you on your reviews.
best regards,
pgt

posted by Porius at 9:49 pm (EST) on Apr 17, 2009

Quite welcome. ^-^ I pretty much ignore the time stamps myself now, if that helps.

posted by Shanra at 4:09 pm (EST) on Apr 8, 2009

Hello! Came here from the Green Dragon thread on times as I don't think anyone really answered your question there. I might've missed it, though. Anyway, I don't know all the technicalities (JPB gave them, though), but the basic line is you can't change the group times to display your own. Setting your location does very little beyond letting interested people know where you're from and finding bookstores and events near you, I'm afraid.

Anyway, I hope that answers the question and helps some! And welcome to LibraryThing! ^-^

posted by Shanra at 1:21 pm (EST) on Apr 8, 2009

Hi Tid,

I found your library after reading your comments on Kate Atkinson on Girlybooks, I'm a Kate Atkinson fan too and loved Human Croquet!

I am interested in astrology but many of the astrology books in my library were inherited from my grandmother and I think give the astrology side of my library rather more weight than it would otherwise have. There do seem to be a lot beginning with A! You should find more fiction if you manage to wade in further...!

posted by Soupdragon at 1:06 pm (EST) on Apr 6, 2009