Member: gemmation

Re The Green Gallant - Thanks so much for that info! I had no idea, but of course this is why L is so brilliant. You might like to add the info in a review or book description? And I will now be looking out for this, as I really like Dinah Dean.

posted by sarahemmm at 1:46 am (EST) on Jun 5, 2009

Hi! Just wanted to ask you about The Green Gallant. Is it really part of the Dinah Dean Russian series (you added the CK entry)? There doesn't seem to be any other info about it, and I'd like to add it to my wishlist if it is.

Thanks a lot!

posted by sarahemmm at 2:26 am (EST) on Jun 4, 2009

It helps to be walked through one the first time. I still remember.

When books are combined, LT decides which author 'wins' and the book then only shows on that page. Usually it is majority wins. But not always. There are tricks to 'float' the best author, but they are complicated and time-consuming, and I've never done it. As I understand it, the technique involves adding several copies that are right, maybe doing some separating and recombining until things look right, then deleting the extra copies and keeping your fingers crossed that it sticks. There mey also be even more esoteric techniques that involve understanding programming, but that is way beyond me.

The example you give has four wrong copies and one right one. Chances of getting it to stick are minimal. If it were closer you could post it for floating. Since that won't work, you can do the following:

1) Add a disambiguation notice (In CK) to the book itself with the proper author name. See the one currently in Elliot for an idea of how such things can be worded.

2) Check the profiles of the others who own it, and IF AND ONLY IF they have asked for corrections send them a private comment. In your wording here, err on the side of being too polite. Don't ask for a correction to be made, but only mention that there is a small inaccuracy. I repeat - ONLY if they ask for corrections, and ONLY as a private comment. Some poeple have gotten very upset at such notes, so it's best to be very careful. If they prefer to have inacccurate catalogs that is their good right, (even if it's wrong), and they also have the right not to be hassled about it.

3) Look in the libraries of the people who own it and check the source they used. Try and get is corrected in the source in the hopes that when more copies are added, they will be correct, and eventually the book will flip to the right page. Amazon will make corrections, but you need an account with them. There is a link on their page for the book. LC and British Library are both nice about making corrections, if you hunt down the right e-mail address and send all the relevant information.

4) Try and split Elliot into its constituant parts, so that when Tim & co get a new author system working,the books are ready to be moved to their correct authors.

posted by MarthaJeanne at 12:24 pm (EST) on May 23, 2009

Here's one from your catalogue that would work the way I've been doing them.
http://www.librarything.com/work/7050722...

If you click on editions (at the bottom of the left hand column) you will see that someone else has entered the same book, but with enough differences that the auto-combiner isn't sure. Click now on (combine/separate potentials), and the two books can easily be combined. This sometimes works with the ISBN the same, even if the authors have been entered differently.

In this particular case the authors are the same, so you can also click on the author name, and combine from the combine/separate page there. In fact, in this case you should, as there is a third one there that doesn't show up on the editions page.

If you have a pair of books, it is always worth checking both edition pages, as sometimes the combinbation will only show up on one, and not the other.

posted by MarthaJeanne at 7:09 am (EST) on May 23, 2009

Yeah, if I could figure out how to get the packaging right for m-bags, I'd use with a few people's piles... But it's too expensive and they'd complain while the books built up with me.

posted by infiniteletters at 6:32 pm (EST) on May 5, 2009

Also http://pe.usps.gov/text/imm/immc2_037.ht...

posted by infiniteletters at 5:35 pm (EST) on May 5, 2009

The M-bag info is still there, but it's expensive and complicated.
http://pe.usps.gov/text/imm/immc2_024.ht...
http://www.usps.com/international/mbags....

I could mail 8-10 pounds for $42 and 12-16 pounds for $54.
http://pe.usps.gov/text/imm/immc2_014.ht...

posted by infiniteletters at 5:32 pm (EST) on May 5, 2009

Hi gemmation,

There's been a recent mini-outbreak of haiku on the topic of "Waiting for Collections" -- I thought, since you contributed a haiku in the past, you might want to join in the fun... Check out this thread and, of course, the LibraryThing Haikus page.

Silent

posted by SilentInAWay at 7:37 pm (EST) on Mar 28, 2009

Aren't those masquerade covers crazy? I can see the art direction: "huh, it's set in russia, so make sure you have onion domes PROMINENTLY FEATURED so no one is surprised. And here's four scenes from the book; squeeze them all in somehow. Now make it all vague and impressionistic."

posted by h34th3r at 6:38 pm (EST) on Jan 26, 2009

Okey-doke. I only had two of the Harlequin Regency series that you were missing, (hre-) but several of the Harlequin Historical/Masquerade (hm-). So there's another 15 or so for you in that directory now.

posted by h34th3r at 6:41 pm (EST) on Jan 24, 2009

Cool! The cover duplicates are cool! I'd never caught one of those before.

Looking at this page, do you happen to have a view of JUST the books where you are missing cover images (unlikely, but thought I'd check before I printed the whole thing out!)

http://www.historicalromance.myzen.co.uk...

Heather

posted by h34th3r at 1:36 am (EST) on Jan 23, 2009

Okeydoke! The rest of the covers are there now, too. http://www.crankyengineer.com/ephemera/h...

posted by h34th3r at 4:48 pm (EST) on Jan 22, 2009

Here you go! If it looks good, I'll do the rest and put them there, too.

http://www.crankyengineer.com/ephemera/h...

posted by h34th3r at 1:31 pm (EST) on Jan 21, 2009

Ah, I see.

Well, check here -- this might be handy for what you're trying to do. It should certainly give you something bigger than the thumbnail you've been looking at! I uploaded a 500KB file, so .. . .

http://www.librarything.com/blog/2008/08...

If that doesn't do the trick, I'll upload the full size for you someplace and send you the link when I'm on my home computer again.

Heather

posted by h34th3r at 5:13 pm (EST) on Jan 20, 2009

If you go here, do you see two cover choices, now? http://www.librarything.com/work/1800723... Maybe it takes a while to propagate? I can't see how to download the full size images, instead of the thumbnails though (I assume you've been able to do that in the past).

Re: qty of books: I lived in Los Angeles for quite a while and it seemed like every single library had booksales going on all the time. So the next thing you know I had all these books (at a $1 per bag, they add up quickly and cheaply). And then people with books to get rid of would give them to me, too, so . . . My book acquiring has dropped way, way off lately, though. Which is probably for the best.

For a long time (well, still, to a limited extent) I was trying to collect a copy of all the common romance series lines. My enthusiasm waned sometime after I realized I hardly read any of them any more :-) But I'm a big regency fan since I started reading them in junior high school and I enjoy some of the romantic suspense lines still. Anyway, I figure I'm preserving them for posterity.

Do you have a list of things you're looking for? Or are you doing some similar obsessive-compulsive filling in gaps thing?

posted by h34th3r at 7:08 pm (EST) on Jan 19, 2009

I've uploaded it! Let me know how it looks -- if it's okay, I'll do the other six I have from that HH series the same way. I might be able to fill in a couple of your Harlequin Masquerade holes, too.

And we should chat about the mailing buddy thing :-) I'm continually frustrated by the expense of getting books that only get printed in the UK. . . (Several years ago there was an online bookseller with flat rate shipping to the US! I was in heaven!)

posted by h34th3r at 11:47 am (EST) on Jan 19, 2009

It wasn't me -- I've never uploaded a cover. But I've got a multi-function device, so I probably could. I'll give it a try.

posted by h34th3r at 6:42 pm (EST) on Jan 18, 2009

It's always interesting to see what other people think of the book you've just read. In the case of Gents it seems we're all of the same opinion that it just isn't as good as it could be. An interesting idea, not really well executed and in need of a bit more development.

ER is a great program though, this month's SF offerings could be quite good!

posted by reading_fox at 1:02 pm (EST) on Jul 12, 2008

thanks so much for fixing the series information for the Into the Wilderness novels. I didn't realize that this feature was in place. I happen also to be the author (Sara Donati is my penname), so your help is especially appreciated.

posted by rosinalippi at 6:32 pm (EST) on Jan 19, 2008

correct. my english is improving a lot since I started reading erotica. I can't find good erotica in italian, so I have to read it in english. I have seen we have a lot of books in common, erotica and romance. If you like I have a livejournal where I write all my stuff for erotica (the reviews I post also on librarything, but I play a lot with romance in general) and also a blog (Isn't it Romantic, bilingual) mainly specialized in romance, and where I often host romance and erotica authors.

posted by elisa.rolle at 5:30 pm (EST) on Aug 6, 2007

thanks to you for reading my short reviews. I write them soon after finish the book, cause if I let run days, I have a huge backlog! Sorry if sometimes my english is not good, is not my mother tongue and I know I made many mistake. Elisa

posted by elisa.rolle at 5:13 pm (EST) on Aug 6, 2007

Thank you for marking the spoilers in your reviews!! I gave up looking at LT reviews of books I might want to read myself some day, because all too often they tell more than I want to know in advance.

posted by sunny at 12:51 pm (EST) on Mar 15, 2007