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Member: doncornell

CollectionsYour library (1,688), Other libraries (70), Currently reading (19), Recently read (11), Favorites (6), Read but unowned (53), All collections (1,759)

ReviewsNone

Tagsnon-fiction (1,366), fiction (393), History-shelf (76), Africa-shelf (33), Middle East-shelf (32), military history-box (27), Music-shelf (26), U.S. 19th century-box (23), Asia-shelf (17), Britain-shelf (16) — see all tags

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud

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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)

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 soon. (9/27/2009)

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 17 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.

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Real nameDon Cornell

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Member sinceOct 30, 2006

Currently readingRaj : the making and unmaking of British India by Lawrence James
Digital copyright by Jessica Litman
The arms maker of Berlin by Dan Fesperman
Lie in the dark by Dan Fesperman
The small boat of great sorrows : a novel by Dan Fesperman
The amateur spy by Dan Fesperman
Mathematics and the search for knowledge by Morris Kline
Glut : mastering information through the ages by Alex Wright
Naming nature : the clash between instinct and science by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
Radicals in robes : why extreme right-wing courts are wrong for America by Cass R. Sunstein
Sailing the wine-dark sea : why the Greeks matter by Thomas Cahill
Mysteries of the Middle Ages : the rise of feminism, science, and art from the cults of Catholic Europe by Thomas. Cahill
Language and the internet by David Crystal
Mathematics for the nonmathematician by Morris Kline
Everything is miscellaneous : the power of the new digital disorder by David Weinberger
Small pieces, loosely joined : a unified theory of the web by David Weinberger
The heart of the matter ; Stamboul train ; A burnt-out case ; The third man ; The quiet American ; Loser takes all ; The power and the glory by Graham Greene
Digital barbarism : a writer's manifesto by Mark Helprin
The unlikely spy by Daniel Silva
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