Member: timspalding

So much for "Raise a child in the way he should be." One of you didn't make it.

posted by Citizenjoyce at 11:04 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2010

I have a confession to make. When I first started looking at the pro and con groups I thought oakspalding was your wife. Sorry, but I do have to laugh now whenever I see you posting in the same groups.

posted by Citizenjoyce at 5:14 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2010

Thanks Tim. I'm originally from Maine, the Belfast area. Moving back to Maine the end of this week, East Machias.

~Virginia

posted by Virginia_Wright at 11:39 am (EST) on Aug 30, 2010

Talking to the researchers and seeing if there's a way to export LT Covers to them or have them fetch images.

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

very nice library!

posted by Lililu at 6:22 pm (EST) on Aug 28, 2010

Is there any way to apply http://www.alipr.com/ to the CoverGuess database?

posted by infiniteletters at 10:23 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2010

So I did break, 'LibraryThing'. Ooops! Sorry about that.

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

Gratsi!!!

posted by LE.Draqonoviicht at 3:45 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2010

Hey Tim -

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

So happy I checked out your page so now I see all that Library Thing can do. Thank you for setting it up. jean grant

posted by expatjean at 2:21 am (EST) on Aug 25, 2010

Hi Tim! Any updates on Tag Watch? It has said "work in progress" for a while now. I really liked it, and I hope that it won't go away forever.

Thanks!
Debbie--a very happy LibraryThing user!

posted by VenusofUrbino at 10:59 am (EST) on Aug 23, 2010

I was wondering if we were supposed to make the attempt, and wanted to see if it would work. It did. :-)

posted by andejons at 2:24 am (EST) on Aug 19, 2010

Thanks, Tim. Interesting piece indeed.

Cheers!
John

posted by johnthefireman at 12:58 pm (EST) on Aug 18, 2010

Thanks so much, Tim! The second one worked - I had to go to Content and Exceptions and remove the LT address so the photos weren't blocked. Great!

- Joe

posted by jnwelch at 5:42 pm (EST) on Aug 17, 2010

Hi, Tim. I'm not sure you're the right guy to ask, but I mistakenly blocked all my photos on my Profile (via right click while trying to delete a duplicate) and now I can't unblock them! I've tried everything I can think of, and now need the help of someone wiser in the ways of the site.

Best - Joe

posted by jnwelch at 4:16 pm (EST) on Aug 17, 2010

Hi Tim,
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

Tim, we have MARC records. I can use Terry Reese's MarcEdit to transform them into some other formats. Thanks Dave (@ USRA)

posted by USRA at 1:12 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2010

Tim

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

Tim, there is something very weird going on.

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

Sorry, Tim, I neglected to upload my logos for Future Psychiatry Press and Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Institute Press. All should be present now or so I hope

posted by LHPress at 9:35 pm (EST) on Aug 13, 2010

Tim,
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

Tim,

Thanks for the badges. Great website you have!

~Virginia

posted by Virginia_Wright at 8:31 pm (EST) on Aug 11, 2010

Tim,

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

Hello Tim,

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

Hi Tim,

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

I just double-checked to make sure that I didn't actually combine two authors with lots of books. Nope. I combined a mispelling ("Willism Shakespeare") that had no books and (I believe) no CK data, with the main author (which, of course, has lots and lots of books and plenty of CK data). I wouldn't think that would cripple the system or anything...

posted by SilentInAWay at 3:15 pm (EST) on Aug 4, 2010

Only a single author combination -- but for William Shakespeare!! -- It finished.

posted by SilentInAWay at 3:09 pm (EST) on Aug 4, 2010

Old reviews are posting all over wall at FB
NOT just for me..
LT issue or FB?
kath

posted by mckait at 4:35 pm (EST) on Aug 3, 2010

Tim

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

MrsYoung would be great! Thanks for your help!

posted by HeatherYoung at 12:40 pm (EST) on Jul 28, 2010

I want to unsubscribe to this website and see no link to do so. Can you help? Thanks.

posted by PatDuBose at 9:32 pm (EST) on Jul 27, 2010

Not a lot! The original had just the right dreamlike quality, sometimes tedious, sometimes blissful and sometimes downright scary.
Alistair

posted by Chalkoi at 7:07 am (EST) on Jul 27, 2010

Oh, TIm, That's great.

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

Hi Tim,
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

Hi Tim,

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

I noticed a typo on the community helpers page under Spam Catching: "develoted" should be "devoted." Sorry to nitpick but I just couldn't keep quiet :)

posted by wisewoman at 4:42 pm (EST) on Jul 20, 2010