Member: conceptDawg

That's OK. I figured out by trial and error. I was actually adding the comic book series of the 'The Gunslinger'
I went to Stephen King's website and downloaded pictures from there.

Thanks for getting back to me, tho!!

Tommie

posted by Tommie1 at 3:53 pm (EST) on Jun 15, 2009

Hello,
unfortunately the column titles in "your libary" have disappeared once again for my Opera browser (it had been working quite well until ? yesterday?). It would be very nice for you to have a look again. Kind regards and sorry for being a nuisance. Christian

posted by cnrenner at 1:50 pm (EST) on Jun 15, 2009

Hello,

As a developer on Library I am hoping that you will be able to resolve a problem I have, namely:

The books in my library, that I cannot find covers for, and which previously had captions (author and title) have now completely disappeared. Can you please tell me how I can get the information back on the blank covers. This is also happening for any additional new books that I add.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

David (orientalist)

posted by orientalist at 4:56 am (EST) on Jun 14, 2009

By the way, I covet your book on Chinese Domestic Furniture.

posted by Makifat at 11:28 am (EST) on Jun 11, 2009

Yo, Dawg-
I have a question, and don't seem to be able to find the answer elsewhere. I have two separate accounts on LT, one for books and one for music (I know, I know!). Obviously, much if the music collection is unique, as I have the only LT copy of many items. The question is, supposing I want to integrate the accounts now that collections is available, is there an easy way to do this? I've tried "adding" to my main account from my music collection, but rather than just transferring the unique record, it asks if I want to use Amazon or some other source.

Am I missing something, or am I just looking for trouble?

Thanks,
Maki

P.S. Thanks for all your excellent work on this site.

posted by Makifat at 11:27 am (EST) on Jun 11, 2009

i can see you're bombarded with requests to join the BETA testing group - just thought i'd also throw my hat into the ring.

thanks.

posted by moonstormer at 4:15 pm (EST) on Jun 9, 2009

Hello

I see you are listed as a developer for Librarything.com. I am trying to downkad a cover that is on my desktop to
a book that is in my collection. I have tried wit a JPEG & a PDF. when I find and upload the next page says done but no picture.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for you help!!

THomas Drechsler
Tonnie1@aol.com

posted by Tommie1 at 3:26 pm (EST) on Jun 3, 2009

Hi Chris, I'd like to join the BETA group if possible. Thanks.

posted by fabtk at 9:07 pm (EST) on May 22, 2009

Hi Chris, If you are need of yet another BETA volunteer, let me know.

Thanks,
Carrie

posted by cal8769 at 12:48 pm (EST) on May 21, 2009

conceptDawg,
I would like to become a member of the BETA group as well if you haven't been overwhelmed with new members already!
Thanks!
Colleen

posted by ForeignCircus at 5:15 pm (EST) on May 12, 2009

our firewall at work won't let me through to your link. I'm sorry. I can try this evening from home.

posted by VictoriaPL at 2:00 pm (EST) on May 12, 2009

Hi conceptDawg. May I please be admitted to the BETA group?

posted by Collectorator at 11:20 am (EST) on May 12, 2009

Noticed you lived in Mobile. In case you're interested, I'll be signing copies of my new novel, Dirty Little Angels, this Saturday at Page and Palette in Fairhope (from 2-4pm). Here's a link that provides info about the book. Hope you can make it.

http://christophertusa.com

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 9:29 pm (EST) on Apr 21, 2009

Chris:

The new widget thing with the book covers is awesome, but there does not seem to be any instruction as to how and where to place it. I have a book blog www.rabbitreader.blogspot.com and i would love to place it there, but nothing tells me how -- nothing in English, anyway ;->

Thanks for another great idea for LT

-Jim

posted by rmckeown at 10:01 am (EST) on Apr 17, 2009

Hello, I hope you can help me with something that occurred before the latest catalog stuff. It's this book of mine
http://www.librarything.com/work/8138597...
Now matter what I do I cannot make it appear as part of the count on the author page. If I click to edit my copy and then click save, it will make the Nelson Doubleday page say I have all 45 books. It will stay sometimes for a few hours, but sometimes only a few minutes, and then it's back to saying I only have 44.
Why is it doing that?

Thank you for all you do,
Collectorator

posted by Collectorator at 10:21 am (EST) on Apr 16, 2009

Thanks for the update, Chris. I guess I'll continue displaying profile covers using HTML for the time being

Silent

posted by SilentInAWay at 12:47 am (EST) on Apr 14, 2009

thanks for the add to the BETA board!!!!

posted by atlargeintheworld at 4:47 pm (EST) on Apr 9, 2009

Do you ever sleep?

All night makeovers make me sleepy to just read about :)

posted by mckait at 7:18 am (EST) on Apr 9, 2009

just wanted to thank you for posting that screenshot of the new features! it's beautiful! keep up the great work (and do try to take it easy every once in a while).

i'd also like to ask to be added to the Board for Extreme Thing Advances (which i imagine is rather gigantic at this point).

thanks!

posted by atlargeintheworld at 4:02 pm (EST) on Apr 8, 2009

Hi, I'd like to join Board for Extreme Thing Advances.
Thanks. :)

posted by stezton at 12:18 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2009

*knock, knock* Can I come into the BETA group please, pretty please?

posted by klarusu at 9:39 am (EST) on Apr 7, 2009

Hi, when you get a chance (but before collections!) please add me to the BfETA group.

posted by rorrison at 7:35 am (EST) on Apr 7, 2009

Please add me to the Board for Extreme Thing Advances. Thanks!

posted by legallypuzzled at 5:50 am (EST) on Apr 7, 2009

Thanks, Invitation accepted.

posted by kevmalone at 2:05 am (EST) on Apr 7, 2009

Hi Chris,

I know you've been swamped (not only handcuffed to collections, but also helping out on other widgets, gizmos and jiggers that are thrown your way); nevertheless, I am hoping that you might have a moment to spare...

I would like to redo how covers are displayed on my profile page. Currently, I am using img tags in HTML pointing to the files used to display covers at the same size in my catalog. Ideally, I would like to use the coverthing_dynamic command instead, but it does not currently support a height parameter (only a width parameter).

Before I begin to aggresively bump the talk topic where Tim said that he would implement a coverthing_dynamic height parameter, I thought I would ask you if the pending collections capability is likely to provide a method that serves my purposes.

So...

1) will the initial release of collections feature the ability to automatically display on your profile page the covers contained in certain collections?

2) if so, will this be available for any collection, or only a few predetermined collections?

3) if so, will covers displayed on the profile page be adjusted to have the same height (I hate ragged heights; don't mind different widths) and

4) if so, will the size of the profile covers be user-selectable

Ideally, I'd like to populate custom collections (such as "Recently Read") with only those books I wish to appear on my profile (not tied tightly to my reading dates, since I definitely don't want my profile to display every book that I've recently marked as having finished). Will this be possible initially?, soon?, eventually?, never?

Thanks in advance for taking the time to answer this -- the best I can offer in exchange is a laudatory entry on the LibraryThing Haiku page...

Silent

posted by SilentInAWay at 12:52 am (EST) on Apr 2, 2009

I am having problems with both the SORT and the SEARCH functions on my library. For example, when I do a search for "Annie Dillard" a page comes up saying "displaying 4 of 4"; however, it only displays 2 books. So I tried the SORT. Your FAQ said I should click on the title of the column that I want to sort by; however, my author column does NOT have a title. I have also tried your re-indexing the library function but it does not help. Thank you for your assistance.

posted by lachatte at 8:45 pm (EST) on Mar 24, 2009

I have not been able to see the pictures taken at the recent Flash Mob. When I go to "blog" and begin to accsess them I get (on Mac) the whirling ball and "Safari Quit" etc. every time for several days altho every other place I use LT works perfectly.

posted by Esta1923 at 1:03 pm (EST) on Feb 27, 2009

Hi Chris,
I am very, very new to the site just hearing about it through an ad for the Cat so please forgive me for what may appear to be an inordinately dumb question. When I was searching for the answer I came across your name. Since I too have a son named Chris who is a wizard with computer repair and networking, I was compelled to choose you as my best hope for a solution to my problem. Perhaps not the most sound of reasons but my reason nonetheless, so here goes:).
I recently purchased a Cat scanner hoping to be able to use it to facilitate listing books into the two book swapping sites that I use regularly. Since I have a library of more than two thousand books I hoped it would make posting the books I wanted to trade easier. I seem to have run into an unexpected difficulty however. While I have found that it works pretty well in scanning in and getting the correct title and author to come up on the list here at this site, for some reason the ISBN is not listed in the information about the book. I either need to be able to import the information from this site directly into Paperbackswap.com and Bookmooch.com or I need to have the ISBN number come up on the listing of the book's information so I can have two windows open at the same time and 'cut and paste' the ISBN number from this site to the other site.
Can you help me with this problem Chris? Since computers are definitely NOT my strong suit..being as my son calls me, "computer daft", I need some help to come up with a solution. The reason I bought the Cat in the first place was because my vision is deteriorating and reading the little print of the ISBN numbers is becoming increasingly difficult. The prospect of trying to use a magnifying glass and enter the sheer volume of books I want to list is just too daunting, but I want to be able to offer the books to other people who may want to read them but can't afford to purchase them. Please help me figure out a way to get the information the Cat provides so easily into the places where I need it to reach.
Thank you so very much for your time and attention,
Celeste
CelesteJak@yahoo.com

posted by CelesteJak at 8:13 am (EST) on Feb 26, 2009

Question about your reading timeline (which I hope Tim will let you officially develop someday).... Is there a way to show it without books added/acquired? Someone said that there's an extra suffix that will make it into what I want.

posted by _Zoe_ at 1:16 pm (EST) on Jan 14, 2009

I have a naive question...I picked your address because I saw "Dawg" in it! I created a group, but the system says I can't invite anyone to join because I'm not a member, and I can't figure out how to become a member of the group I created. Can you help me? Thanks, Diane

posted by dsekeres at 11:21 am (EST) on Jan 6, 2009

How do I eliminate the Column titled "Shared" from my list. It seems to appear as the last column, even though there is no heading appearing on the label that identifies what should or should not appear. Thanks. --Michael

posted by mrice2 at 8:45 am (EST) on Dec 22, 2008

misericordia has come up with an interesting idea in this thread about an extension to WikiThing. Care to take a look and throw in your twopenn'orth?

posted by Noisy at 8:36 am (EST) on Dec 17, 2008

Thanks again for reindexing my catalog (whatever "reindexing" is :P)

posted by wisewoman at 3:16 pm (EST) on Dec 15, 2008

Hi Christopher,

I've got a question: when I fill in my Amazon Associates ID in the widget I use and refresh the page again, it has disappeared. I've tried it several times, but it doesn't seem to work...

Thank you.
Ingrid

posted by ingridvandenboogaard at 12:48 pm (EST) on Dec 4, 2008

Can I really only add one book at a time in the Add Books page?
I add a book, then have to do the author search again, page ahead, select the next book, repeat.

I must be doing something wrong. Can't imagine you can only add one book at a time and not get straight back to the author's list. But I can't see another way.

It would take me weeks to input my library!

posted by dougkessler at 6:14 pm (EST) on Nov 17, 2008

Christopher, My profile stats correctly lists my location as Chicago, Illinois. However, I only get "local news" for Boston, MA on my page. I'd really like to keep up on author signings and readings in Chicago and not Boston. Can you fix this? Thx, Liza

posted by grigoro at 7:00 pm (EST) on Nov 4, 2008

Your "Christopher's House" photo makes me dizzy, the buildings look like they are falling over...nice photo!

posted by jglassow at 1:13 am (EST) on Oct 24, 2008

Christopher,
I know this may be a dumb question but I've gone to FAQ, checked out the tour, looked and looked for this answer and am down to asking someone (like the website developer?).

I just send in my lifetime membership $ so I don't feel guilty asking a question.

I was introduced to LibraryThing through friends. So, HOW do I check out a particular individuals LibraryThing info? (I am not interested in blogging etc. just want to see my friend's profile/books read etc.)

I thank you VERY much for your help. Honestly, I did check FAQ thoroughly.

Carol VanDeventer

posted by CKVan at 12:05 pm (EST) on Sep 16, 2008

Christopher, As a software developer, I thought you might have some answers for me. I kind of stumbled into the Library Thing while surfing for book related sites and saw your name as sofware design/developer to Library Thing.

My question: I have a library of approximately 3-4,000 books that I want to catalog based on the dewey decimal or Library of Congress or other such respected cataloging system. The software I've Googled is for much larger libraries which need to be able to check books in and out and a whole lot more than what I need. I'm looking for fairly basic library sofware for a home library that will allow me to inventory and organize my books in keeping with standards utilized for much bigger libraries. Do you or any of your friends or acqaintances know the names of software packages that do this?
Any direction or advice you can give me would be appreciated.

jvm@onemain.com

posted by Vandervort at 8:30 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2008

hi
would you tell me how can i my books plz?
i have add some book but i donot know how to use and rede them
when i click on edith on the cover of my book(ex.Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical Surgical Nursing ) under the the review box is writhen none.
pleaze help me!!!!

posted by raziehmontazeri at 6:49 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2008

Thank you very much for fixing my index. This has been bugging me for ages and I thought it was just one of those things. It just shows that one should always ask. Thank you,again.

posted by Foxhunter at 3:54 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2008

Bug problem- No direct link from book's main page here on lt to amazon. For instance, when I click on amazon.com under "buy, borrow, swap, or view", it takes me to amazon's homepage and not the book listed. This is with any book, new or old.

posted by homegirl at 5:24 am (EST) on Aug 23, 2008

Hi,

I may not be telling the right person, so forgive me and hopefully you can pass this information onto the correct department.

In the gallery, author Ridley Pearson is identified as Ellen Rimbauer which is a character in his book, The Diary of Rose Red. Just thought I'd let you know.

Thanks,

Dana

posted by DanaJean at 7:36 am (EST) on Aug 19, 2008

RE: my post from the problems page, one user's stars don't show on my homepage but it still tells me that she has rated a book. The user is BCCJillster and her library isn't private. Thanks for looking into this. It's no big deal if it is too time consuming or little for you to bother with, just a small annoyance. Thanks!

posted by xmaystarx at 1:14 pm (EST) on Aug 15, 2008

Christopher,

For the life of me I'm not sure just what it is you're competing for. Most of the dedicated LibraryThing users are "keepers" as well as readers and have paid the lifetime membership already because we appreciate all the sort and tag functionality. Meanwhile, I think the social network aspect, while by no means bare bones, doesn't seem quite as attractive as the way it's done on GoodReads or Shelfari!

I'm not looking for LibraryThing to make my 5,000 book database available to Goodreads - well, now that I think on it I suppose in a sense I am - so much as I'd like an "import my reviews" sort of functionality.

But, I guess this goes back to proprietary use. If I'm building the personal database from mostly Amazon data and writing my own reviews, once you have my membership fee what exactly are you protecting or competing for? This looks to me more like fish and kelp competing over who gets to use the ocean.

Can my tagging schemes be sold as some sort of geek algorithm?

I hope you're not planning to billboard this out like MySpace or Facebook where the functionality drowns in the net noise.

- Barney Dannelke

posted by Dannelke at 10:47 am (EST) on Aug 2, 2008

Hello Christopher,

I'm not sure if you would be the go-to developer for this but I'm a lifetime member of LibraryThing

http://www.librarything.com/profile/Dann...

and a new-ish member of the book site Goodreads

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/72162

which are fairly complimentary sites - and I was wondering if there were any plans in the works to more closely link or integrate these two sites.

Regards and best wishes - Barney Dannelke

--
(Any & All Books)
http://www.amazon.com/shops/anyandallboo...

History is a vast early warning system.
-Norman Cousins (1915-1990)

Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it. - Brigid Brophy (1929-1995)

posted by Dannelke at 5:43 pm (EST) on Jul 30, 2008

I'm having problems with Library Thing. It will not let me delete books now and it will not let me change covers the books. Do you have any idea what the problem might be?

posted by dsdmd at 12:02 am (EST) on Jul 19, 2008

Hi Chris, is there a way to add spell check soft ware so when I am leaving a comment after I am done writing I can run spell check. I am a terrible speller with that feature I would feel more comfortable leaving comments. Thank you
Michael

posted by michaelbartley at 5:21 pm (EST) on Jul 18, 2008

I Christopher,

Not sure if you are the correct person, but I was unable to add my Facebook "fan" page to my profile. It would be great to be able to do that. Thanks!
Heather

posted by socscilib at 11:41 am (EST) on Jul 1, 2008

Just to let you know - assuming you don't read the thread on the new customization option from the top every time - I posted a new message on the "Members with your books" problems over at Bug Collectors:

http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...

posted by koffieyahoo at 12:40 am (EST) on Jul 1, 2008

Chris -- (and Tom)

I like the new member page and have just one suggestion: Under the section entitled "Member's Zeitgheist", why not list the number of the rating of the size of the member's library as it grows. I was chatting to Tim one day and he easily told me I was 16,500 in size that day. I believe you have an easy way to do this, and I would be sooooo happy to see my numbers bring me up the ladder. And yes, I suppose it IS PURE ego and against my theology, but I just think it would be the neatest thing!

posted by andyray at 10:41 am (EST) on Jun 22, 2008

Dear Christopher:

Re: http://www.librarything.nl/talktopic.php...

At present, I cannot even ping LT.com (www.librarything.com) any more. When trying and pinging LT.com, I get : "host www.librarything.com cannot be found". Because of this, of course, a call for whatever LT.com page is returning a 404 error.

I can ping (and reach) LT.nl [72.12.88.181] though. Then again, LT.nl (as a whole) is crippled far beyond the original report.

Yours,

boekerij.

posted by boekerij at 9:10 am (EST) on Jun 12, 2008

Help!

Downloads of my own library, access to titles for editing are running incredibly slow - 3 to 5 minutes to download library or re-sort.
What's up with that? My speed test indicates normal download timesthrough my modem, generally.

Thanks for looking.

posted by mayreh at 7:02 pm (EST) on Jun 10, 2008

My Connection News is behaving beautifully now. Thank you.

posted by Thrin at 6:43 pm (EST) on Jun 9, 2008

Hi,
I am unable to access the 50 similar libraries under Connections. This has been going on quite a long while and I actually do miss it. I think it's a nice feature. I did report this to Abby a while back and I think she said she would report it to Tim? Thanks!

posted by cranmergirl at 11:50 pm (EST) on Jun 3, 2008

Congratuations on the new addition to your family!

posted by An_Fear_Glas at 1:53 am (EST) on May 16, 2008

Congrats!

And thanks for the help with my problem.

posted by melsmarsh at 4:32 pm (EST) on May 11, 2008

Congrats on your beautiful little girl!!

posted by sqdancer at 1:33 am (EST) on May 10, 2008

I found the pics of your daughter. She gorgeous!!

posted by SqueakyChu at 12:35 am (EST) on May 10, 2008

Best wishes, Chris, to you and your wife on your new parenthood!! So where is the information about your little one?!

posted by SqueakyChu at 12:31 am (EST) on May 10, 2008

Just FYI
Your changelog on the wiki is displaying "March 2008" instead of "May 2008" at present.

posted by Avron at 7:15 am (EST) on May 4, 2008

on zeitgheist, largest libraries: keeping in the tradition of listing the top one percent the largest libraries, coiuld you please expand the number from 3,000 to 4,000? Now that we have more than 400,000 members? Of course, you couild expand it to 5,000 members since we shall meet 500,000 by the end of the year if not by the end of summer.

Thank you.

posted by andyray at 8:12 am (EST) on May 2, 2008

The bubbly is on ice. All the best to you and your wife. All LT expects a "Yellow Box" on the home page -- "It's a ....."

Jim

posted by justjim at 5:25 am (EST) on Apr 24, 2008

I just want to thank you for all the hard work you do for this site, and especially for all the recent bugs you have been fixing and working on fixing. It really is impressive. Thank you!

posted by Heather19 at 12:01 am (EST) on Apr 18, 2008

I was just editing a book's information under via the 'Edit' pencil, and got an error when I accidentally included a ' instead of a ". I was able to reproduce it with another book, adding a ' to the end of the Novelization tag. The message I got was:

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '12 Monkeys: A Novel', books_sortcharacter=1, books_authorunflip='Hand, Eliza' at line 3

UPDATE bookstack SET books_tags='Science Fiction,Novelization'', books_title='12 Monkeys: A Novel', books_sortcharacter=1, books_authorunflip='Hand, Elizabeth', books_date='1995', books_ISBN='0061056588', books_admin_sameness=1819554821, books_yourrev='0', books_sort_author='handelizabeth', books_rating=0, books_datebought = 0, books_datestarted = 0, books_dateread = 0, books_sameness_resolved = 2033384120, books_copies = 1, books_lang = 'eng', books_lang2 = '', books_lang_original = '', books_indexed = 0, books_refresh = 1 WHERE books_id=15279005 AND books_userid='dnorum'
- fatal error (31.1)

I apologize if this is mentioned elsewhere, but it looks like there's something buggy with whatever code handles the SQL commands (queries? - I'm not familiar with SQL).

posted by dnorum at 9:27 pm (EST) on Apr 13, 2008

How do I turn off "Community Knowledge"? When people start renaming books in order to indulge their private fetishes -- disregarding the actual title on the book itself -- it is beyond stupid.

Nor -- again -- are any of my Orwell part of any "Complete Works of" -- yet that is how they are repeatedly MIScategorized.

posted by JNagarya at 11:33 am (EST) on Apr 5, 2008

Hello Chris .. new member here .. great site/concept .. I would like to change my user name but the function shows as unavailable (in the Tools tab) .. do you know if it will be available soon? Thanks.

posted by writingstix at 1:44 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2008

sphece, I can't answer you since you don't have comments enabled nor do you have your email public. The best place to ask is in Talk under Bug Collectors group. That way we can have some back-and-forth without you needing to enable stuff on your profile.

posted by conceptDawg at 12:55 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2008

Can't figure this out.. The system will not let me log back into two groups that I created and made "private" , and now I would like to delete them. How can I do that?
Thanks

posted by sphece at 11:30 pm (EST) on Mar 27, 2008

Are you back to work?
Just a bump about Other Authors problem.
Get well soon. You ARE missed.

posted by sassysinger at 8:43 pm (EST) on Mar 16, 2008

Thanks for getting back to me...once specific example is with the author Elizabeth Zimmerman...if I enter Elizabeth in the Search it returns all of the books in my library by Elizabeth Zimmerman...if I type in Aimmerman or Elizabeth Zimmerman or Zimmerman, Elizabeth it returns NO books...strange. Thanks for looking into this for me. DJNL

posted by djnl07 at 4:08 pm (EST) on Mar 2, 2008

Congratulations on the "new" job. Also, you have a face! Who knew?

posted by sabreuse at 6:45 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008

Congratulations on your full-time employment (shacklement?) Chris, it is long overdue! :)

posted by AndrewB at 6:39 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008

Hi, Love your site...am new to it...question in Search...when I type in just the last name of an author to search for in my library it comes back with no results (I know the name is there), but if I type in the same author's first name, the correct results show and if I type in the whole name, with last, first ot first, last..again no results??? What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
djnl07

posted by djnl07 at 5:50 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008

I can test when on that computer, which will depend on the weather tonight.

posted by infiniteletters at 11:28 am (EST) on Feb 21, 2008

Hey cD, got a question for you... on Common Knowledge, on the book pages, is it possible to have a 'misc notes' spot? I'm thinking it would be interesting to notate an author's first novel or similar info. I don't think it belongs in the disambiguation notice though. What are your thoughts?

posted by VictoriaPL at 10:28 am (EST) on Feb 20, 2008

My Profile page frequently superimposes over other pages. What is going on here? Anything I can do to stop this?

posted by InCahoots at 2:11 am (EST) on Feb 10, 2008