Member: pythagoras

Hello,
I was just given Bulgy the Barrage Balloon by Enid Marx. I'd not heard of her before, but when I looked on LT I see you have several of her books. If you'd care to tell me anything about her, I'm interested.

posted by SaintSunniva at 5:39 pm (EST) on Dec 14, 2008

Oh wait, I may be incorrect -- in one view it said we had 122 books in common (which is too high) but on your profile page it says we have 42 books in common, which is, I believe, accurate.

posted by nautilus_library at 11:31 am (EST) on Sep 17, 2008

Good morning Pythagoras.

I was just perusing your interesting library. Not that it matters on a practical level, but I notice that while we have a lot of books in common I believe LT is overcounting the actual number. I see a number of examples of, what is, in my case, a single copy of what i know is something in my library, being counted a number of times over in numberous editions, when in fact i just may have one copy in one edition. (Although there are titles i do have in more than one edition, but not as many as LT thinks.) But in any case, you have an impressive library!

posted by nautilus_library at 11:29 am (EST) on Sep 17, 2008

Even once one discounts the Nivens, etc. (which belong to my husband and son), we still have an interesting set of books in common. Actually I was looking up C. O. Skilbeck. Apparently we each have one (different)book of his that noone else has.

posted by MarthaJeanne at 2:21 pm (EST) on Jun 3, 2008

It's crazy! Oh well [rolls eyes] I don't guess there is anything to do to fix it -- but it's all good, I get a chance to browse your interesting library.

posted by nautilus_library at 10:46 am (EST) on Nov 26, 2007

Hi! I see we share some books. I did note however that Library Thing for some reason is listing multiple editions of a title as separate items i have, especially the Parson's Handbook, of which i have -- in reality -- only one copy. LT did the same thing with "Common Worship". Which means in actuality we dont share 51 titles in common -- however we still do share quite a few titles and interests. Great minds and all that ... :)

posted by nautilus_library at 4:01 pm (EST) on Nov 2, 2007

Just came to say 'Hi!': it may not last long, but at the moment you're one of only two people to share 4 books with me uniquely.

posted by MyopicBookworm at 4:22 am (EST) on Jul 1, 2007

Hi, I notice that we are the only people on LT that share Lord Berners' memoirs, The Slide Rule a Practical Manual, and Die Münchner U-Bahn. Unterirdisch durch die bayerische Landeshauptstadt (as well as some maps and a couple of other railway books). I'm not sure how many obscure books in (apparently) unrelated genres you have to share in a population the size of LT to be statistically significant, but we must be well on the way!

posted by thorold at 4:37 pm (EST) on Jun 20, 2007

I enjoyed browsing your books. We have a good few in common: mathematics, Folio Society, and printing-related in particular. I notice that your copy of the Old School Press's The Fell Revival appears as a separate work from those that Martyn Thomas and I have, and has a different ISBN. I imagine therefore that it is a deluxe copy. I was going to combine the two works, as I think they fall within the LT guidelines for a single work, but as there are so few copies I thought I could easily check to see if you agreed before doing so.

I noticed your Thomas Bewick strand too; I'm in the last section of Jenny Uglow's biog, and greatly enjoying it - though I have to keep a magnifying glass at hand to see the vignettes properly.

posted by affle at 6:01 pm (EST) on Feb 7, 2007