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About my libraryI'm slowly adding information here about my books, partly from a database I built covering everything I've read since 2004 or so (basically a digital commonplace book) and partly from occasional blitzes of ISBNs from my shelves. Information from the commonplace database is now all uploaded; it will take longer to tag and rate them all, and I'm not sure I'll ever get round to adding absolutely everything I've got. But I do intend to add some of the very bad ones as well as the good ones, as I find it useful to read other people's opinions of what they don't like as well as what they do. (Unfortunately, this also means LibraryThing's recommendations are sometimes woefully inappropriate, since it assumes you *like* everything in your library.)

In the unlikely event that you're trying to make sense of my tags, it's worth knowing that there are basically three categories of books here: books I own and have read (not tagged in any particular way), books I own but have not yet started reading (tagged 'unread') and books which I have read but do not own (tagged 'borrowed'.) Just about everything pre 1983 or thereabouts will be 'borrowed' as before then almost everything I read came from a local, school or university library. And there's no way I can remember all of it, or even a substantial fraction.

There's also books tagged 'work', some of which I own and some of which I don't, but all of which are related to work rather than pleasure. And then there's one or two which fall somewhere between those categories.

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Currently readingThe Pooh perplex : a student casebook : in which it is discovered that the true meaning of the Pooh stories is not as si by Frederick C. Crews
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Taking chances : winning with probability by Dr. John Haigh
Women, men and language : a sociolinguistic account of gender differences in language by Jennifer Coates
The industrial archaeology of Hertfordshire by William Branch Johnson
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Parallel computers : architecture, programming and algorithms by R. W. Hockney

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Distributed computing systems programme by David A. Duce

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Compiling techniques by F. R. A. Hopgood

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Getting to know our audience : AHDS Performing Arts scoping study by Daisy Abbott

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ATROFI (Archiving Tropical Forest Inventory) - Final Report of workshop by Nell Baker

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ULCC Annual Report 1986/87 by University of London Computer Centre (ULCC)

One more example. There are only three ISBNs listed in LT for this book:
Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington…
by Stacy A. Cordery
0143114271 - 9780143114277 - 0670018333

When I look at the properties for the image displayed in the LT record, it references the first ISBN in the Amazon URL so I guessed that might be the ISBN that would work. This is the string (with mykey# being the actual string of letters & numbers):

No image. In fact, none of these ISBNs work. Does LT only have the rights to certain images?

posted by LCPLreaders at 5:30 pm (EST) on Oct 30, 2009

I finally had some quiet time to spend working on this and the problem appears to be the ISBN chosen.

For example, when I use this ISBN: 0143114425 which is the main ISBN listed on the Details page for Last Night at the Lobster, no image appears, not even a placeholder. I went to the list of other editions and used 0670018279 and the image displays. Is there a trick for figuring out which ISBN is going to work? I don't even care if the image matches the cover of the book in our collection, I just don't want to waste time copying and pasting ISBN and ISBN until one works.

So, I know I have the code correct because certain images do display as they should.

Thanks!

posted by LCPLreaders at 5:17 pm (EST) on Oct 30, 2009

Tag, you're it! I finally got back to this Library Thing account and noticed that you responded to my message way back in August.

We've been trying to use Library Thing images on our library website and on blogs that we link to the site. We use the correct developer string but the image usually will not display.

If you're still checking messages, I'd love to know if you have any suggestions. A co-worker and I have been scouring the groups for help and still have not found a solution.

Thanks,
Chris - Lake County Public Library

posted by LCPLreaders at 2:56 pm (EST) on Oct 29, 2009

Sorry to bother you with this but you seemed to be the only truly helpful person on the blog when it came to developer keys not working outside of LibraryThing. We are still struggling with this issue at my library and have tried several of the suggestions posted including using the ISBN (by right-clicking for Properties) of the default cover shown for a book. Still, only about 20% of the covers work right and, being a public library, we want to make sure we are not infringing on legal rights.

It seems as though the topic died at the end of 2008 but maybe I'm just missing something on the blog.

If you can help, I'd greatly appreciate it.

--Chris, Lake County Public Library

posted by LCPLreaders at 4:38 pm (EST) on Jul 7, 2009

You're welcome!

posted by PortiaLong at 10:15 pm (EST) on Feb 21, 2009

No, sorry.

posted by geoffgibbs at 4:19 am (EST) on Feb 13, 2009

Thank you for answering my question about the date of death field.

posted by corcra at 4:36 pm (EST) on Feb 3, 2009

Thanks for the tip on finding out what one added to CK. It worked perfectly. I completely forgot that I have two print-on-demand books for which there was no description at LT, and typed in the back cover blurbs. I'll have to keep an eye on that when I add titles, so I gather more good karma.

posted by ReneeMarie at 5:51 pm (EST) on Jan 24, 2009

I would like to see what you have as Comment to "The strange laws of old England" posted as a review. Did you have some special reason not to make it a review? I got this book as a Christmas present too.

Jim Roberts

posted by jimroberts at 3:50 am (EST) on Dec 11, 2008

Re Wisden Question.
I don't know, I only have the stadard hardback. But according to Amazon both this and the special edition have 1600 pages. I get the impression it is just a large print edition.

posted by ringman at 1:55 pm (EST) on Nov 24, 2008

(From a train.) Honest to God, where am I speaking next Tuesday? I'm hoping I have it down on my calendar at home.

Tim

posted by timspalding at 12:05 pm (EST) on Nov 20, 2008

Saw your note about the Interzone collection - I think you have been reading the 4th anthology, not the 5th!

posted by nwhyte at 4:53 pm (EST) on Oct 7, 2008

I'm purring!!!

Hazel

posted by KayCliff at 3:10 am (EST) on Sep 23, 2008

Gee, thanks, love your review of Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fiction!
Hazel Bell

posted by KayCliff at 4:55 pm (EST) on Sep 21, 2008

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