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Favorite authorsErnst Badian, George Ewart Bean, Walter Burkert, Callimachus, Lisa Carey, C. P. Cavafy, C. W. Ceram, Robertson Davies, M. I. Finley, Robin Lane Fox, Paul Fussell, Edward Gorey, Paul Graham, Herodotus, Ibn Khaldūn, Jaron Lanier, Longus, Arnaldo Momigliano, Peter Morville, Vladimir Nabokov, Ovid, Saint Photios, Tim Spalding, Mark Twain, David Weinberger (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresAvenue Victor Hugo, Books Etc. (Portland), Brattle Book Shop, Brookline Booksmith, Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Carlson & Turner Books, Dawn Treader Book Shop, Eren Kitabevi, Harvard Book Store, Longfellow Books, Maine Coast Book Shop, McIntyre and Moore Booksellers, Pages, Porter Square Books, Raven Used Book Shop, Rodney's Bookstore, Schoenhof's Foreign Books, Second Run Bookstore, Shakespeare & Company, Shaman Drum, Strand Bookstore, The Green Hand Bookshop, Trident Booksellers & Cafe, Waterstone's Boston USA
Favorite librariesCambridge Public Library - Main Branch, Maine Charitable Mechanic Association Library, McClintic Public Library, Pocahontas County Free Libraries, Portland Public Library, Portsmouth Athenaeum, The Boston Athenaeum
Other favoritesLibraryThing H.Q., Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (museum and shop)
Favorite publishersCandlewick Press, Mercer University Press, Orbit Books, Osprey Publishing, Penguin Australia, RAND Corporation, Shire Publications
About meI am the founder and lead developer of LibraryThing.
About my libraryMy interests run to ancient history, Greek and Latin. So far I've done maybe 1/4-1/3 of what I have. Frankly, it's also gotten a bit mixed-up and redundant, as I use this account for testing. (There are a couple books I test out with, because I know they have certain fields or are in certain libraries.) That said, I've got a good chunk of my history, religion and archaeology in. Greek, Latin and novels to come....
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Member sinceAug 21, 2005
Currently readingA marginal Jew : rethinking the historical Jesus by John P. Meier
Mesopotamia: Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians by Enrico Ascalone
Philip II of Macedonia by Ian Worthington
A history of warfare by John Keegan
Greeks and Romans in the modern world by Roger-Paul Droit
A chronicle of the last pagans by Pierre Chuvin
Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Western languages, AD 100-1500 by Philippe Wolff
An imperial possession : Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC-AD 409 by D. J. Mattingly
The Downing Street years by Margaret Thatcher
The English Language: A Historical introduction (Canto) by Charles Barber
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posted by Citizenjoyce at 11:04 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2010
posted by Citizenjoyce at 5:14 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2010
~Virginia
posted by Virginia_Wright at 11:39 am (EST) on Aug 30, 2010
If it works, voila, more keywords for LT, and they have a larger set of testcases.
posted by infiniteletters at 11:21 pm (EST) on Aug 28, 2010
posted by Lililu at 6:22 pm (EST) on Aug 28, 2010
posted by infiniteletters at 10:23 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2010
Thank you, for fixing it.
Much appreciated!!!!!
I just acquired a bunch of books and am incorporating them into my collection. I don't seem to have the most recently published books in my collection. Therefore my books tend to NOT be in most internet databases.
LibraryThing is a HUGE and wonderful resource!
Thanks again.
- L. E. Draqonoviicht
posted by LE.Draqonoviicht at 3:54 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2010
posted by LE.Draqonoviicht at 3:45 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2010
I think I just broke LibraryThing. HAHA
Something seems to have CRASHED!!!!
I'm not able to pull-up the lists of my books. It keeps telling me that. 'If this persists', to contact you. So here I am, contacting you.
What's my next step?
Thanks -
- L. E. Draqonoviicht
posted by LE.Draqonoviicht at 3:25 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2010
posted by expatjean at 2:21 am (EST) on Aug 25, 2010
Thanks!
Debbie--a very happy LibraryThing user!
posted by VenusofUrbino at 10:59 am (EST) on Aug 23, 2010
posted by andejons at 2:24 am (EST) on Aug 19, 2010
Cheers!
John
posted by johnthefireman at 12:58 pm (EST) on Aug 18, 2010
- Joe
posted by jnwelch at 5:42 pm (EST) on Aug 17, 2010
Best - Joe
posted by jnwelch at 4:16 pm (EST) on Aug 17, 2010
I think I'll leave things as they are and keep my halo!
oldstick.
posted by oldstick at 7:13 am (EST) on Aug 17, 2010
posted by USRA at 1:12 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2010
I know you don't like people writing directly to you but I have posted this twice under "separators". When will the true count be reflected here?
Top 50 edition separators (log)
timspalding (9,398)
I know I have done over 3000 already
Thanx
posted by bergs47 at 8:54 am (EST) on Aug 16, 2010
Several books in one library seem to have wrong URLs attached to them
http://www.librarything.com/topic/96817
posted by MarthaJeanne at 3:02 pm (EST) on Aug 15, 2010
posted by LHPress at 9:35 pm (EST) on Aug 13, 2010
Thanks for the superfast approval on Scapegoat - I'm promoting the page now on the social networks. Thanks for fixing the URL typo. Underworld Amusements is a small Print-On-Demand project, so most of the titles aren't listed with any proper listers of information. I'll be working on that though, and I'll resubmit later when I think you can get some info.
Thanks,
Kevin I. Slaughter
posted by kevinislaughter at 7:29 pm (EST) on Aug 12, 2010
Thanks for the badges. Great website you have!
~Virginia
posted by Virginia_Wright at 8:31 pm (EST) on Aug 11, 2010
The Lunar and Planetary Institute publishes quite a bit. We hold conferences and publish the abstracts and sometimes the proceedings. Most of these publications have no ISBN. The LPI Library catalog lists over 500 titles we have publilshed. We have also published technical reports and have dual published several books with the University of Arizona Press. Not sure the ins-and-outs of dual publishing on LibraryThing for Publishers yet so I'm waiting to see how it goes. Universities Space Research Assoc. also has other divisions that publish things like Proceedings of the Workshop on Nervous System Plasticity in Relation to Long-term Exposure to Microgravity Environment. That's why I set up the publisher as USRA and the imprint as LPI. I can add the other divisions later.
A question about the ISBN match, does it have to be correct? We published a book with a bad ISBN (too many numbers) and almost everywhere it shows up with that number. Matching on the correct number would be next to useless.
posted by USRA at 4:09 pm (EST) on Aug 11, 2010
Thank you very much for the shiny medals. (My wife was . . . amused.)
I've noticed that Lawrence Durrell has entries under "Durrell Lawrence" and "Lawrence Durreell." Should these be removed?
Thank you for your effort in creating and maintaining LibraryThing. I enjoy it immensely.
Chris
posted by cdonegan at 4:07 am (EST) on Aug 10, 2010
Just checking in to see if there is anything else I need to do to change my username to MrsYoung. Thanks so much for all of your help!
Heather Young AKA Dharmayng
posted by HeatherYoung at 8:46 am (EST) on Aug 9, 2010
posted by SilentInAWay at 3:15 pm (EST) on Aug 4, 2010
posted by SilentInAWay at 3:09 pm (EST) on Aug 4, 2010
NOT just for me..
LT issue or FB?
kath
posted by mckait at 4:35 pm (EST) on Aug 3, 2010
I like to do what I can to help but I am only home about 3 days a month. I drive a truck.
If you could make it so I could delete empty folders and delete covers that are duplicates
I would be happy to do so.
Thanks for the great site
Jeff
posted by jefbra at 3:07 pm (EST) on Aug 2, 2010
posted by HeatherYoung at 12:40 pm (EST) on Jul 28, 2010
posted by PatDuBose at 9:32 pm (EST) on Jul 27, 2010
Alistair
posted by Chalkoi at 7:07 am (EST) on Jul 27, 2010
I'm thinking that we could work with this website.
http://www.operationpaperback.org/
Operation Paperback collects gently used books and sends them to American troops deployed overseas. Since 1999, they have shipped over 1.1 million books to locations around the globe.
We could all pack our books and have a list of where we can send, maybe on wiki or somehow centralized. Or we can send them all to Operation Paperback and let them take it from there.
It still needs some research but I wanted to see if we could have any account for them before we started.
Maybe we could even have a badge for it for books donated after we got started.
Let me know what you think.
Cheli
posted by cyderry at 11:36 pm (EST) on Jul 26, 2010
Thanks for recommending Solaris, I hope I still have it, we moved house about three years ago and I'm still unpacking books! Incidentally, the Russian film still rates as one of my all time favourites.
Alistair (Chalkoi)
posted by Chalkoi at 6:29 pm (EST) on Jul 26, 2010
I was going to install the screensaver according to your video instructions BUT I don't have a "Mobile Me and RSS" option in my screensaver list. My mac is running snow leopard 10.6.4. Any ideas?
Thanks!
anne :)
(sorry about the earlier post - wasn't supposed to be "private")
posted by anniedoe at 11:45 pm (EST) on Jul 20, 2010
posted by wisewoman at 4:42 pm (EST) on Jul 20, 2010