Member: mirmir

about: "How to configure "also on facebook" correctly?"

sholem aleykhem tayere mirmir,

If you like to configure "also on facebook" correctly you need to identify your facebook id no.

An easy method to do this is to start at
http://www.facebook.com/groups.php
then click at "my groups" and see the id no at the end of the opening url; for example:
http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?id=63...

Good luck and greetings from Munich, Germany

zay gezunt
לערי ריינהארט
admin at http://yi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldi...
http://www.facebook.com/irelgnag
http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?id=63...

posted by gangleri at 8:59 am (EST) on Aug 20, 2009

About the specific author order: go to the author page which already combines multiple authors in one, search and combine starting from there (so not the other way around). In my experience it sometimes also "helps", i.e. the books show up if you do one more author combination or wait a while, but I haven't been able to figure out the exact details.

There is one catch since author search if heavily cached the search might be unsuccesful, I would suggest the wrong order of combining in that case (it still might work). If it fails try posting in the combiners! group, or drop me a line, mentioning the author number and author name as they appear in the address bar of you browser. There is a way to disentangle the authors and combine them properly, but it's quite tricky (it requires to type the right stuff at the right time in the address bar of your browser).

Suske&Wiske: Yeah, I actually discovered that I like Belgian-Franco and Dutch comics quite a lot and want to read more of them. Unfortunately, since I live in Japan it's difficult for me to get them, so I basically refrain from doing so at the moment :-( Oddly enough, since Japanese like stuff big brands (Louis Vuitton's biggest market is e.g. Japan) I do have easy access to the Japanese translations of Tin Tin: there is a small shop in the city in which I live that solely sells Tin Tin comics and related articles.

I'm curious by the way, what research is there that requires knowledge of both Russian and Arabic?

posted by koffieyahoo at 1:37 am (EST) on Feb 19, 2008

Hi,

Thanks for your second reply! Maybe you were confused as you didn't you your first reply on my profile page, but I archived it, to keep the page clutter free. Anyway, yes, luckily it's getting better with the non-latin characters. There are only a few slight annoyances left at the moment as far as I can tell: books without an author still get weirdly combined and are sometimes impossible to uncombine, and combining non-latin author names with latin ones sometimes has to be done in a specific order, otherwise the books don't show up.

Language-wise I'm actually not very good, although my library might give a different impression. I speak Dutch (my native language) and English. I understand most German, simply because it's close to Dutch, but deny that I speak it and I understand a little Japanese (but still suck big time at it). I think Japanese is interesting, as it's so different from any other language I know, but that also makes it hard to learn. In addition it's difficult to practice by reading books (at least in the beginning), as that requires you to learn the chinese characters.

posted by koffieyahoo at 10:07 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2008

Hello mirmir,

Yes, I read Josja Pruis, and discussed it with a small group of colleagues (I'm a librarian). I agree with you it would be hard to understand for most children. But I think for good readers this could be a book that shows them what stories can mean to one. It could be THE book for someone who loves the mysteriousness of the story, who loves almost, but not quite, knowing what's going on. I liked it very much for those reasons.

Greetings,

Esther

posted by westher at 10:38 am (EST) on Jan 2, 2008

Hi,

About your recent post on il.librarything problems. Reading between the lines I get the impression that they are planning to fix the problem with author names which are all foreign characters (see message 15 here).

The problem with the titles seems to be a hashing problem, i.e. the calculate a short number for each title and the combine automatically. However, I suspect that in the hashing all foreign characters are again ignored (if you leave out all the Thai and Hebrew from the books that you mentioned, is the title the same?). What you can try in this case is to separate the books through the Debris page of the work or try making some subtle (non-hebrew) changes to the title of your book (either may or may not work :-).

And, of course keep bugging Tim et al. about these problems until they fix them :-) At least they fixed the work does not exist problems!

P.S. If your cats are trilingual, how many languages do you speak?

posted by koffieyahoo at 2:47 am (EST) on Dec 13, 2007

Hey. What I did is a sort of "automatic" reversal. What's left, I need to do by hand. It's not hard, but it's fairly hard for me to know where it matters. Can you post particular problem pages on the LT in Hebrew group? I'll knock 'em off as I get 'em.

posted by timspalding at 5:44 pm (EST) on Dec 6, 2007

Thanks for inviting me to the Hebrew literature group. Alas, I already belong to too many groups, so I think I will pass. Rebecca

posted by rebeccanyc at 11:41 am (EST) on Jul 11, 2007

I will have to work much harder on my library. I dont have everything in yet.

posted by SRB5729 at 1:02 pm (EST) on Jul 8, 2007

Thank you for inviting me. I have the same comment to make as Squeaky_Chu. my Hebrew is not advanced enough to comment (in Hebrew) about literature, but I will be happy to comment in English about Hebrew literature, and I do read the poets in Hebrew with a peek at the translations when needed. I haven't begun to figure out how to use a Hebrew font. Todah rabah for the invitation, and maybe you or Madeline or Peter can help me figure out how to write some Hebrew. Laila tov. Miriam

posted by almigwin at 8:45 pm (EST) on Jul 2, 2007

Hi mirmir,

Thank you for inviting me to your new group. I'm excited to see that Tim has added Hebrew font to LT.

I'm not sure my Hebrew is advanced enough to get into a deep book discussion in Hebrew, but it will be fun to try to read the Hebrew conversation while I figure out how to get the ability to type in Hebrew on my computer. I do have Hebrew font, but I don't have the ability to type Hebrew words other than from Microsoft Word in which I have to "insert" each "symbol" in reverse order in order to complete a word. It took me about fifteen minutes to try to get the word Shalom in the correct order when I tried to do it today! :-(

Perhaps one day, there will be a Hebrew mirror site here at LT. Israelis love to read!

All the best,
Madeline

posted by SqueakyChu at 10:37 am (EST) on Jul 2, 2007

Cool! I'd think that you loose your language if you move to another country when you're ten, but apparently you don't. Hard to say which modern authors are good. I like Marcel Moring, I just read "Dis", his latest novel. He's one of the best authors right now. I don't like Grunberg that much, though his writing style is ok. I read a novel by Renate Dorrestein, but I think it's not well written. Oh, and Kader Abdolah, you should definitely read one of his novels. He's Persian but he writes in Dutch. My all time favorite is Woutertje Pieterse by Multatuli.

Most of the books I read are in English, there's just much more choice in English :-)

posted by xtien at 11:18 pm (EST) on Jun 27, 2007

Hi Miriam. Are you Dutch? We share some books in Dutch. Also, you read books in Hebrew that I read in German, English or Dutch :-)
Christine

posted by xtien at 1:12 pm (EST) on Jun 27, 2007

Hi Miriam,

I was "doing Pesach". Thanks for the correction.

Nice to hear from you,
Cheryl

posted by cvjacobs at 8:12 pm (EST) on May 9, 2007