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The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian
The Mother Hunt (Rex Stout Library) by Rex Stout
Manifold: Origin by Stephen Baxter
Too Many Clients by Rex Stout
For the Good of the State by Anthony Price
Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose
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About me Software engineer, web developer, photographer, SF fan and convention-runner.
My first attempt at cataloging my library was done on punch cards, in the 1960s.
About my library Large. Old. Lots of science fiction and the normal accompaniments like C.S. Forrester and Patrick O'Brian. Mixed with three other people's, total somewhere vaguely north of 10,000 volumes. Perhaps we'll approach cataloging is systematically and find out.
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-- Dean
posted by deanbkrafft at 2:17 pm (EST) on May 29, 2008
2) Our "shared books" list starts with the Ansel Adams series.
I've looked around your work: nice stuff. Your '70s look an awful lot like my '70s. (Unfortunately, none of my stuff is on line...)
(MY first SLR: Konica T-3, 1976. I literally wore it out (shutter speeds became inconsistent), so I moved to Nikon in '84.)
posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 11:52 am (EST) on Dec 12, 2006
Huh. Albany NY isn't big enough to support much a local SF scene, and it's inconveniently far from both Boston and NYC, so I grew up reading the stuff (you know the drill), but isolated from fandom. It's only in the last few years I've been able to connect with My People.
> Huh; strange commenting/discussion system here...
A lot of quirks here. Tim Spalding seems like a really nice guy (he's also married to a writer...) but this site might be getting too big for him.
> I've liked the idea of cataloging my library for more than 30 years. I >first started doing so on punch cards. I next started, *much* later, >using ReaderWare and a cuecat scanner, and I've still got that data.
yeah, I home-brewed a DB back in ClarisWorks. (I waited until punch cards were gone... we're much of an age - I'm 51)
If you have your ISBNs in ReaderWare, then you should be able to figure out how to pour them into LT's using the "import" features.
>(We're talking somewhere around 15k volumes I'd guesstimate).
Yep. I'm at about 11.5-12k, the wife and kids are around 3.5-4k
>I certainly like the idea of having the listing with me -- and in fact >I've got the Palm Pilot module from Readerware so I can do that with that >database.
A friend of mine (with better chops) got my LT catalog down to 1 or 2 meg and got it to load on a $5 Palm he picked up at a charity sale. It was an early, small (4M?) version, so it was painfully slow. But I've seen proof-of-principal.
>But LibraryThing has its own charm, too.
It really does. The social aspect just opened this summer, and in the past month we've attracted our first (system-wide) troll. There's a long thread discussing what to do about him. It's like watching history repeat itself.
> We could have overlapped any number of ways.
Names I knew at DEC in that era: Art Beane? Joyce Hyde? Dave Powell?
I think I saw your Mike-Ford-wake pictures linked off of ML; which is why your name was half-familar to me.
posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 2:36 am (EST) on Dec 12, 2006
Hi. It seems like I half-recognize your name - I'm not active in fandom, but I do go to the occasional con. I assume you knew the late John M. Ford? (We exchanged posts a couple times at ML, I finally met him in person at this year's Boskone (...speaking of EE Smith...), and was devastated to hear of his death. What a loss to the world.
On a brighter note -
Stick around Library Thing, it's a lot of fun:
a) It's nice to make order out of chaos by cataloging one's books;
b) An on-line catalog can be handy - it's possible to check your holdings while standing in a bookstore.
c) the discussion groups are interesting.
Nice meeting you, I hope to see you around LT.
- Bob
posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 9:28 pm (EST) on Dec 11, 2006
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