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posted by anglemark at 3:46 am (EST) on Oct 29, 2009
my goal is to get all the covers & edition info etc right - someday . . . when time allows
posted by bookstopshere at 12:41 pm (EST) on Aug 2, 2009
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posted by fang at 11:10 am (EST) on Apr 24, 2009
I've met Ray. The best man at my wedding is who Tomas is modelled after. I just think that Midkemia and Pug have seen too much play. When Talon came out, and we didn't even hear of Pug or the Kingdom, we had a chance to show the world without having to bring all the other stuff into it. Now it is just very tired/
posted by DWWilkin at 1:01 am (EST) on Apr 12, 2009
I hope I did not offend you. It was not my intention to do so.
posted by debra3schalbertme at 8:38 pm (EST) on Mar 30, 2009
It appears both you and I misspelled the action word (catalog). Oops!
posted by debra3schalbertme at 10:54 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2009
That notwithstanding, the Swedish Academy a couple of years ago announced that they will treat V and W as separate letters from now on, so you will see Sweden go over to that if you wait long enough. Hmph.
-j
posted by anglemark at 5:25 am (EST) on Mar 29, 2009
posted by anglemark at 8:28 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2009
posted by DWWilkin at 8:15 pm (EST) on Feb 21, 2009
This is being attributed to a "Robert Sawyer" http://www.librarything.com/author/sawye...
It should instead be attributed to "Robert J Sawyer" http://www.librarything.com/author/sawye...
and combined with the proper work http://www.librarything.com/work/1889260
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Thanks again,
Amy
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Sue aka thewordygecko
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posted by suchstuff at 11:09 pm (EST) on Jun 28, 2008
We do have a few books on Ireland. I'll continue to feed them into LT today.
posted by anglemark at 3:25 am (EST) on May 17, 2008
ezappas
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posted by clarkwright at 9:27 pm (EST) on Apr 6, 2008
Hope I have been sufficiently clear - sometimes I run on a bit in my explanations ...
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Bill
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posted by cnrenner at 2:53 pm (EST) on Mar 16, 2008
Thanks for adding me to your list of 'Interesting Libraries'. Always glad to find someone doing this as it shows that I must be doing something right with the way I am putting my collection together.
All the best.
posted by devenish at 9:49 am (EST) on Mar 13, 2008
It IS "We Always Mention Aunt Clara" rather than the first line of the song, i.e. "We never mention Aunt Clara..."
Ta, MMcKay
posted by mmckay at 9:42 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2008
Cleda
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posted by jimroberts at 6:27 am (EST) on Jan 29, 2008
I managed to buy some Folio Society Trollope's which I didn't own,
and entered them to LT from the bookseller's list. How careless!
P
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posted by timepiece at 6:24 pm (EST) on Sep 26, 2007
Yeah, I thought the Partridge Family books were long gone, but last year my Mom found them in her house and gave them to me...I haven't read them yet, but I gotta try 'em and see how bad (or not) they really are.
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at the right of each line on the search results page. Thanks.
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Your welcome.
- Barney Dannelke
posted by Dannelke at 8:59 pm (EST) on Jul 23, 2007
sure thing
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posted by DMitchell at 7:39 pm (EST) on Jul 1, 2007
Thanks for telling me. I honestly did not know that it was labeled wrong. I had just put in the ISBN number and let it fill the info out for me. I'm going to go fix it now.
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posted by tamlynleigh at 1:32 pm (EST) on May 19, 2007
Now, there is still some confusion as to exactly what books belong to that work. The edition I have is indeed an omnibus one, by Heineman/Octopus, 864 pages, and the mainly green cover that currently dominates its LT work page. All the six titles are listed on the cover page, which also has "complete & unabridged" printed at the bottom. There is no ISBN printed in the book itself.
However, some of the covers shown clearly belong to different editions, and LT keeps suggesting the work should be combined with editions of its constituent titles, including The Foundation Trilogy proper, probably because of LT users entering the wrong ISBN for their books. Or maybe they have the correct ISBN, but they have picked the wrong title? I guess we can't really tell without hearing from them.
Previously I have tried to minimize the confusion by identifying and separating out "hybrid" works, i.e. those where I believe the error is. We would still need the assistance of individual book owners to correct those errors, so that their books can be recombined with the appropriate works. Do you have some other idea that we could try?
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-alvilda
posted by alvilda at 9:28 am (EST) on Apr 3, 2007
It's one book that contains both novels.
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posted by marag at 4:31 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2007
It crossed my mind (only briefly),to say that it was a 'deliberate mistake' etc. But I kinda had the feeling that you wouldn't buy that.
Anyway, thank you for taking the time to put me right.
Colin
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Author to be changed from Thomas to Alice M.
Alice continues as a member of the Fleming family.
Enjoy life! LOL
turtle
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bhowell
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Done! Cheers.
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Cheers,
Michael
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Regards - Barney Dannelke (Any & All Books)
Unmuddled, PA.
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