Random books from pivox's library

The Astrological Diary of God by Bo Fowler

Atlas historique by W. Devos et R. Geivers

Gwoemul (the Host) by Joon-ho Bong

Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen. Roman. by Jules Verne

Elemente Chemie: Elemente Chemie, Überregionale Ausgabe, Bd.2, Schülerband 11.-13. Schuljahr: Bd II by Werner Eisner

Lonesome Jim by Steve Buscemi

Gedichte und Prosa by Rainer M. Rilke

Members with pivox's books

Member connections

Friends: Finearon, keren7

Interesting libraries: Archren, bluetyson, conceptDawg, Finearon, GirlFromIpanema, MoCCANY, Noisy, Pfanner, Thalia, timspalding, _Zoe_

LibraryThing authors: David Weinberger (dweinberger)

RSS feeds

Recently-added books

pivox's reviews

Reviews of pivox's books, not including pivox's

Helper badges

Member: pivox

CollectionsYour library (1,080), Wishlist (2), Currently reading (1), To read (26), All collections (1,080)

Reviews6 reviews

Tagsfiction (559), DVD (185), Film (184), science-fiction (173), SF (167), ciencia ficcion (165), non-fiction (156), fantasy (139), CP (130), (110) — see all tags

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud

Groupscrispis, Science Fiction Fans, Stalking Tim & Company

Favorite bookstoresBouquinerie du Varis, Harteveld Rare Books Ltd., LaBulle, Librairie Albert le Grand, Librairie Payot, St-Pierre-de-Clages, Stauffacher, Stauffacher - Hauptgeschäft

Favorite librariesBibliothèque cantonale et universitaire Fribourg / Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek Fribourg, Bibliothèque de la Ville

About meCurrently Reading:

Pandora en el Congo
by Albert Sanchez Pinol
In my catalog
Bigger cover

Recently read:
10/05/08: Accelerando by Charles Stross / In my catalog / Cover
25/03/08: Ni d'Eve, ni d'Adam by Amélie Nothomb / In my catalog / Cover
16/03/08: Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross / In my catalog / Cover
21/01/08: Speaker for the dead by Orson Scott Card / In my catalog / Cover

About my library
My catalog is best viewed with Firefox 2 and using the option "pivox has a suggested style for viewing this library" at the upper left side of the catalog window.

What does my subjective rating mean:

Useful HTML links (for posting in groups - links, images and other stuff):
- See this GFAQ by GreyHead
- Or on Noisy's profile page

Make sure to check out rowens's Bookmarklets on his profile page.
As well as conceptDawg's "new" timeline feature

Intersting links:
There is an insteresting project going on: the idea is to add to LibraryThing the personal libraries of dead luminaries and famous authors. It all started with member LolaWalser, who entered the library of poet Danilo Kiš (1935-1989). Jefferson and John Adams have also been proposed and are in "work in progress". Check out these links: "Cataloging other people's libraries?" (on TALK), "How many books do you share with Thomas Jefferson?" (a Thingology Blog) and "I See Dead People's Books" Group.

- LibraryThing Zen Garden (more on the LT Blog: Post1, Post2)
- LibraryThing Local (more on the LT Blog: Post1, Post2)

This page has been visited times. View My Stats here

free web counter

LocationFribourg, Switzerland

Favorite authorsNone

Account typepublic, lifetime

Connection NewsConnection News

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

Common KnowledgeSeries (164), Awards (277), Characters (3253), Places (735)

Member sinceJul 25, 2007

Currently readingEl Pais De Las Ultimas Cosas by Paul Auster

Most recent activity

pivox rated, added:
House of Suns (Gollancz S.F.) by Alastair Reynolds

pivox added:
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp by Peter Norvig

pivox rated:
The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven

pivox rated:
Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan

pivox reviewed:
Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross

(read review)

Hello, extremely interesting initiative (I see dead people's book). I'll put it as a subject on LT in French. I wonder what Jefferson was reading. Cookery books? Will go and look.

posted by briconcella at 1:16 pm (EST) on Jan 8, 2008

You are the only member on LT that has listed François Place's Les Derniers Géants. I bought this book for a child. I've kept it for myself, such was the pull of it...Happy to meet another Place's fan.

posted by briconcella at 8:55 pm (EST) on Dec 5, 2007

Great idea, the Bigger Cover. When I increased my Currently Reading book image, thinking it'd make the title more legible, the opposite was true since the print quality decreased. So, how to do it? And how to rig it so that title, author,& Bigger Cover links are to upper right of cover image, like yours, instead of in a long awkward horizontal line at the bottom like mine? Thanks - ER

posted by EncompassedRunner at 1:23 am (EST) on Sep 7, 2007

Hi pivox, very helpful and attractive page you've got here. I so like the way you have both a cover pic and link for Currently Reading, that I'm going to visit the other links you've provided to see if I can figure out how to copy your Currently Reading example on my own profile. Thanks! ER

posted by EncompassedRunner at 12:45 pm (EST) on Sep 5, 2007

Hi pivox,

Hmm, yes it's not good at preserving entities like &mp; - if I have anything that I'm likely to want to edit I keep a copy in a plain text file on my computer, then I can edit that and paste it back into LT when I need to. Bob

posted by GreyHead at 1:38 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2007

Hi pivox,

You need something to force the next few empty lines. Nothing 'conventional' is still allowed. Try repeating  <br /> once for each empty line. Bob

posted by GreyHead at 12:28 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2007

Hi pivox,

Oh, too much of a rush, your example had a couple of covers so I left them both in. Delete the last four lines then add enough empty lines to push the next paragraph below the image. The 'clear:both' should do it but I haven't found a way to have it work properly.

Bob

posted by GreyHead at 6:07 am (EST) on Sep 2, 2007

Hi pivox,

Fiddly but this more or less seems to work. You may have to pad with extra line breaks to get it to look tidy.

Currently reading:<a href="/work/57404&book=19382817">
<img style="height: 100px; float:left; padding:6px;" src="http://www.librarything.com/i/covers/med..."/>
</a><a href="/work/57404&book=19382817"> El Pais De Las Ultimas Cosas (In the country of last things)</a>
by <a href="/author/austerpaul"> Paul Auster</a>
<a href="/catalog.php?view=pivox&searchmode... In my catalog</a>
<a style="clear:both;" />
<a href="/work/57404&book=19382817" style="clear:both;float:left;padding:6px...
<img style="height: 100px;" src="http://www.librarything.com/i/covers/med..."/>
</a><a style="clear:both;" />

posted by GreyHead at 5:17 am (EST) on Sep 2, 2007

The HTML commands in angle brackets on my page are not just plain text: they are created using the code for the symbols. If I didn't type the code in each time I edited the profile, it would get interpreted and then change into the symbol itself, and then next time the symbol would be interpreted, and the HTML would be enacted.

posted by Noisy at 9:06 am (EST) on Aug 28, 2007

You can get to specific parts of a page if they have a label. Putting #label_name at the end of the URI will jump you there. To find out what labels are on a page, you need to view the page source (use VIEW from the menu bar) and then look for things in DIV or A statements that come after the ID=. (Please note - I don't know this stuff for fact - it just seems to work for me, and that doesn't guarantee that it's the correct thing to do, or will work everywhere.)

Thanks for the reference to my profile on your page.

That stats counter looks interesting - I'll investigate.

Because of the HTML I've got on my profile, I need to store it as a document, and load it again every time I change my profile, so beware if you try and do fancy stuff.

posted by Noisy at 8:34 am (EST) on Aug 28, 2007

Hi pivox,

w3schools.com is an excellent resource for all things web they have both reference materials and tutorials. I'd also recommend downloading an html editor like NVU (free from nvu.org) and just playing around a bit, it has a drag an drop wysiwyg interface (IIRC) and you can flip tabs to see the source code.

Bob

posted by GreyHead at 1:00 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2007

Hi pivox,

Yes, technically it's possible, but not from a LibrayThing profile, and not with a simple link. You'd have to add in a bit of JavaScript I think and I know that's banned from LT. There are many write-ups on teh web, here's one I found through Google http://www.javascripter.net/faq/openinga...

Good luck

Bob

posted by GreyHead at 10:35 am (EST) on Aug 27, 2007

Hi pivox,

add the attribute target="_blank" inside the <a . . . /> tags and that should have the link open in a new window.

Bob

posted by GreyHead at 8:29 am (EST) on Aug 27, 2007

Hi pivox,

Sorry, looks like Tim has shut down the code on the profile page. It was always tighter than the Talk pages but a few months ago someone 'complained' about it being too open and Tim made both much tighter. But he never(?) posts exactly what's allowed, and I can't be bothered to repeat all the experiments I ran first time around.

Yes, you can make the box narrower, easiest is probably to add width:100px; or width:20%; to the style statements (pick your own width by trial & error probably).

Bob

posted by GreyHead at 5:17 am (EST) on Aug 27, 2007

Hi pivox, Here's the code that you wanted. I'm not certain that it will show up properly here so fingers crossed:

<div style="border:1px solid silver;padding:6px;">some text . . .</div>

Basically it's just a little style statement. The 'border:' bit gives the width, style & color and the 'padding:' bit leaves a margin around the text.

Bob

posted by GreyHead at 4:33 am (EST) on Aug 27, 2007

Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. | static: /