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Tagshistory (1,210), 20th century (1,010), philosophy (942), literature (856), american (585), british (477), 19th century (439), politics (304), german (300), french (296) — see all tags

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About me Us, rather: LTG and Skippy, just simple city folks

About my library How did this happen? Well, with a library this size you know that we didn't buy much at full price! Library, college, and AAUW book sales are the biggest source. There's a lot here from bargain remainder booksellers. There's also a steady drip of acquisitions from second hand bookstores.

There are two collections here as much as one. Individually our interests are eclectic; together they do look all over the map.

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Nice catalog you have there. I just joined LT the other day, and have only entered a few of my books, but it seems that many of the ones I've cataloged so far are common to your library as well. It looks like we have pretty similar interests as far as books go...Philosophy, ancient history, western civilization, etc. I'm going to keep an eye on your collection as I get the rest of my 2000 books onto the system to see if our similarities continue. Good luck in the new year!

posted by DanoStone at 2:30 am (EST) on Jan 4, 2008

Nice collection, especially in ancient history. I was just wondering where the photo was taken. Rome? An old graveyard? I'm still plugging along at entering my own library. Several boxes of classical studies and ancient history, among other things, yet to go. I'll be interested in seeing how many books we ultimately share.

posted by makifat at 2:51 am (EST) on Sep 26, 2007

I see that it's been nearly a year since I stopped by. At that point, we had entered about 2000 of our books and you came out first on our list of members with our books. Since then, LT has switched to weighted average for the default setting of members with our books and, as I predicted, you are back at number one again, even though we now have almost 5300 books entered. Actually, until just this week, another library which closely matched our collection of baseball books was in first place. I don't quite know what happened to get you back in front. Still, yours is definitely the collection that comes closest to our core stuff.

John

posted by johnandlisa at 2:23 pm (EST) on Jul 21, 2007

We share 98 works. Not many, considering the size of your library, but pointing at least to some similar interests. Well, I'll keep an eye on your library (a good one, if I may say so).

posted by Romanus at 2:39 pm (EST) on May 4, 2007

Hi. Thought it was time to stop by after spending a fair amount of time making random observations at my own place.

You may not have noticed us since we're kind of far down on your list of common users, but you've been at the top of our list since we got to 500 books entered. We're about half way done with entering our books, so the really big libraries like ellenandjim may eventually surpass you in raw total. But since we started with the core of our collection, I think you will take the crown as most similar collection.

Best wishes

posted by johnandlisa at 6:45 pm (EST) on Jul 28, 2006

Hi, I see we're the only ones with Hammond's "The Classical Age of Greece". I think I might have read some of it at school, but that was a long time ago :-). I saw it going for half-price in a local bookshop's closing down sale a couple of weeks ago and snatched it up, but I haven't had a chance to read it yet.

posted by Robertgreaves at 11:55 pm (EST) on May 7, 2006

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