Member: doncornell

Collections25 Book Possibilities (13), Kindle e-book (4), Your library (1,872), Other libraries (96), Currently reading (13), Recently read (8), Read but unowned (66), Show on Blog (23), All collections (1,969)

Reviews2 reviews

Tagsnon-fiction (1,528), fiction (441), mathematics (177), music (26), Holocaust (15), historical fiction (14), Mediterranean (14), Chinese-American writers (13), Russia (12), science fiction (10) — see all tags

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About meSeptember 2012: I just bought a Kindle Touch in order to play around with e-books and - maybe, eventually - reduce the amount of physical space my library is taking up. So far I've purchased two books, downloaded a number of freebies, and "borrowed" a couple from the local library consortium, but their selection is limited and the waiting lists are long.

I've been recently hired as data coach for a local middle school. It's not a teaching position, but it is an entry into the education field, my choice for a second career.

June 2010: I'm a graduate of the "Traders to Teachers" program at Montclair State University and pursuing a second career as a high school math teacher. This seriously interferes with my reading time.

About my libraryHow I use collections:
Your library: books I own
Other libraries: books I don't own
Currently Reading: library books currently on loan, books read but unshelved, books pulled from shelves to read
Read but unowned: Library books I've read and returned
Wishlist: inactive (requires an external database export followed by an import)
To read: inactive (also requires export/import; eventually it will list all books owned but unread
I'll be adding books to Recently read and Favorites. (9/27/2009) Note: not likely to happen soon (02/17/2010)

Tags vs Collections
I use collections to describe my relationship or engagement with a book - whether I own it, have read it, liked it, etc. Tags, on the other hand, I intend to use to describe the book itself, without the "me" aspect. I have some cleaning up to do: the fiction/non-fiction tag pair is valid, but the others are vestiges of a system in use before collections became available in LT.

I have my own personal database of books (and reviews, clippings, notes, etc.) that I've used for 20 years and I'm not going to abandon it, so any system for using collections and tags has to be portable from my database to LibraryThing.

GroupsNone

Favorite authorsMonica Ali, Eric Ambler, John le Carré, Joseph Conrad, E. L. Doctorow, Umberto Eco, William Faulkner, E. M. Forster, Michael Frayn, Alan Furst, William Gibson, Robert Harris, Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, Patrick O'Brian, Tim O'Brien, Richard Powers, Martin Cruz Smith, Zadie Smith, Neal Stephenson, Amy Tan, J. R. R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Anne Tyler, Donald E. Westlake (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites

Favorite librariesBloomfield Public Library, East Orange Public Library - Main Library, Harry A. Sprague Library - Montclair State University, Montclair Public Library, The Nutley Free Public Library

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Real nameDon Cornell

Locationnorthern New Jersey

Account typepublic, lifetime

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/doncornell (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/doncornell (library)

Member sinceOct 30, 2006

Currently readingRaj : the making and unmaking of British India by Lawrence James
Blown to bits : your life, liberty, and happiness after the digital explosion by Harold Abelson
The advent of the algorithm : the idea that rules the world by David Berlinski
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel
The Machine in the Garden:Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America by Leo Marx
Uneducated guesses : using evidence to uncover misguided education policies by Howard Wainer
The death and life of the great American school system : how testing and choice are undermining education by Diane Ravitch
Teaching minds : how cognitive science can save our schools by Roger C. Schank
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
The outsourced self : intimate life in market times by Arlie Russell Hochschild
The making of African America : the four great migrations by Ira Berlin
The lotus eaters by Tatjana Soli
Matterhorn : a novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
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