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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....

GroupsAccessibility on LibraryThing, Alexander the Great, American Civil War, American History, Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts, Ancient Egypt, Ancient History, Arab, North African and Middle Eastern Literature, Archaeology, Arr, me hearties!show all groups

Favorite authorsKate Auspitz, Ernst Badian, George Ewart Bean, Walter Burkert, Callimachus, Lisa Carey, Constantine Cavafy, C. W. Ceram, Josh Christie, Michael H. Crawford, Robertson Davies, M. I. Finley, Robin Lane Fox, Paul Fussell, Edward Gorey, Paul Graham, Peter Green, Peter Green, Daniel J. Harrington, Herodotus, Saint I, Patriarch of Constantinople Germanus, Ibn Khaldūn, Ludwig Koenen, Jaron Lanier, Nicholas Lash, Longus, John McWhorter, Jon Meacham, John P. Meier, Arnaldo Momigliano, Peter Morville, Vladimir Nabokov, Ovidius, Tim Spalding, Tim Spalding, Mark Twain, David Weinberger (Shared favorites)

Favorite publishersCandlewick Press, Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors LLC, Mercer University Press, O'Reilly Media, Orbit Books, Osprey Publishing, Penguin Australia, RAND Corporation, Shire Publications, W.W. Norton

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Real nameTim Spalding

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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
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Thanks for the helper award! :-)
Just saw that you recommended And the Band Played On as a similar read for World War Z -- I agree completely! I read both books around the same time and was stunned by how similar I found them to be. Definitely wasn't expecting it.
Hi, thanks for the "award" re adding covers, but I'm intrigued as to why the Amazon books don't have their covers automatically attached.
And is there any way to add books from another person's library as a batch delineated by a tag?
cheers
Alison
Hey, Tim, I hope spring has sprung in your part of the world. It's green and disgustingly warm here in northern California. ;)

Many months ago, re: my upcoming novel INTERRUPT, you wrote:

>> Come Spring be in touch and we'll do an interview, and, if your publisher agrees, Early Reviewers.

That sounds great. May I cc you in an email to my publicist?

Thank you.

Jeff
jeff@jverse.com
You did hear that Pippin is opening on Broadway tonight? I am wondering if they dong the shorter, sanitized version, or the original Fosse ending?

It was the first Broadway play I ever saw, and was at the beginning of my first trip out of the South, out of small towns, and into the world that had existed only in the music I heard. It was 1974, and when I heard the show tunes this morning on Here and Now, it ALL came back to me--the smells of the streets, riding the subways, buying liquor (at age 16), and finding a store that carried David Essex's Rock On LP. Ahhhh, golden days of youth.
Thank you
Hi Tim,

Something bad just happened. I am in NH same time zone as LT.
I was trying to add a book to my Read 2013 collection and it took a long time, and then there was a wifi dump (on my end). When I got back on my collection had shrunk to 3 books. I was not in power edit, I never deleted any, but they are gone. I logged out and in again still no change. It was at 47 and I was adding 48 (which is the correct total). Help !

Will also post in bugs.

Thanks
FicusFan
no. do your own police work.
Tim, you and I often post to the same threads. Often the most blatant unmistakable violations of TOS are a few posts from your posts. You expect me to believe that you don't see them? You expect me to take your message seriously? Get real.

Now if you ever get serious about cleaning up these forums, I will be the first one to cheer. But in the state they're currently in, don't send me such messages. It just makes you look ridiculous.
Hi, Tim ~
Just wanted to say I loved speaking with you and hearing you speak at CIL2013. LibraryThing is wonderful! I'm really hoping to wade through the bureaucracy and get my library subscribed to LTFL.
Sure, I will try to throw together some thoughts.
Thanks for filling my email with 130 copies of the same welcome message sent 1 minute apart. Please fix this, one welcome message is sufficient
Hi Tim
It's lovely to be here, but I am being sent a welcome message from you every minute - so far I have received well over 100. Please can you stop this. I have posted your messages as 'junk' so they don't fill up my intray.

I hope you can solve this quickly.

Regards

Hemmie
I am looking for an English lending library in Tel Aviv where I live. Are you my answer"
S. Mayer PhD
well from the ancient writings from our forefathers our present writer came about. the university of Nigeria has a great writers club for more info on this writers club visit www.unn.edu.ng
Anyway to find out how many more people (than usual) joined LT since the Goodreads overthrow?
I'm sure many regulars would be interested to see!
Thank you for your message. And thank you for the free-bie year. I was a member once before but that seems to have gotten lost (probably my fault!). I used a LT as a widget on my blogs and liked that it constantlyc changed. Love having a trial run to see if I can make this work for me.

Very best,
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
I like this website.
Really, it's wonderful. But my library is more extensive than 200 books, and I was under the impression that it was free. Finding out after cataloging 102 books is kind of depressing.
Can't find another website to do it on, but I have to admit I'm kind of disappointed that people have to pay. But since it's a pay what you want kind of thing, what would you say would be an alright price? It says $25, but I don't have the money for that.
Please let me know.
Thanks,
Mickayla
Tim,

Thanks for your welcome message. Since I just left Goodreads after the announcement of the pending Amazon purchase, I thought I would try out LibraryThing. It's helpful to know right up front that there is a charge for posting in excess of 200 books. I wish you the best. LibraryThing is most likely not a good fit for me.

Teresa
Hello! I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for this wonderful web-site where I can keep my books organized and become connected to other readers from the world over.
Also thank you for the cool badges you're giving out for our participation.

Thank You! :)

Volodymyr from Ukraine
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Hi all. I'm Mike and I'm also new here. I am pursuing a Library Technical degree and the class I'm taking (LIBR 105 Library Technology) has this Web 2.0 assignment, and I picked LibraryThing as one of my projects. The thing is is I was already building my collection on one of my Pinterest boards now I have to redo everything from scratch for this site. Tried to see if I could import to no avail..ugh! Oh well, I think this place may prove to be a better place to serve as my anchor. We'll see.. Happy reading! ;-)
Thanks for the medal.
Tim,
I've tried to figure this out on my own but just can't...
Why doesn't any library (okay, I haven't checked them all, but I have checked many) recognize an ebook's isbn? One would think amazon would recognize the isbn on a book purchased from them for their kindle! I would like to add ebooks to my library without having to manually change everything.
Help!
Linda
Tim: I'm currently cataloguing my library of around 5,000 books. Very slow going, having to input the ISBNs by hand. Is it not possible to use a scanner? Also, I'm having to use Tags to identify the location of the books. Would be nice if there was a seperate box for location, so Tag would be free....

Robert
Tim,

Imagine my surprise to find a bronze medal waiting for me in my email this morning! Thanks! I'm really looking forward to becoming an active and productive member of LibraryThing. Thanks for the encouragement.

Grant
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I love the swirls of snow sculpted by the wind...
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Hi! I am setting up an author page under my pen name, S.M. McEachern - although my friends call me Susan. I am technologically-challenged, so I am finding adding my book to LT a little vexing. I just thought I would put it out there that I never turn down help... or friend requests. Good to be here!
Hi Tim,

Thanks for the badge. I've been adding past reviews from my blog a bit at a time. I didn't realize there were badges we could earn. I'm happy to share the covers where they're needed. :) Besides, it bugs me a bit not to see the covers on my shelf. lol

AVR
Hi!

I hope you can help! I've been trying to upload my Kindle book, Two Weeks in May, onto the LibraryThing site (both by using the manually-add option and by 'Import')from both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, as suggested, and cannot do so even after following all the help advice listed. As far as I'm aware, the book has never been assigned an ISBN number. The 'Import' option seems to throw up an ISBN number, but this doesn't seem to be recognized. Also, I'm unable to set-up a direct link between LibraryThing and Amazon!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Weeks-in-May-ebook/dp/B00ASCTHLS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&...

http://www.amazon.com/Two-Weeks-in-May-ebook/dp/B00ASCTHLS/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-...

A Big Thank You if you are able to help!

With kind regards

Adam Pietrowski.
Dear Tim,

Thank you for the new badge.

Maarten
This is a test comment.
Dear Tim,
Thanks a lot for the badges. Can you give me an example of what I contributed to Common Knowledge.
Tim

Thank you for the badges but I have no idea what they are and how to view them!

Tommie
Smile. Hard to believe you don't move with an associate of the age pictured above.
HELP! We're being spammed in Westerns (http://www.librarything.com/groups/westerns).

I have flagged them all, some are suspended, but have come back under new names.
How nice.!
I'm very surprised.Tanks for the coverup loading badge
Happy New Year!!!
Thank you for the 'Cover Uploading' badge. I did not know there were such awards available. I do appreciate it!

George
Thanks for the badges
Thanks for the badges!
Thanks for the cover uploading badge!
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