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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....
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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
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
The Jesuits, a history by David J. Mitchell
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posted by mta at 7:33 am (EST) on May 20, 2013
posted by melissarochelle at 12:31 am (EST) on May 1, 2013
And is there any way to add books from another person's library as a batch delineated by a tag?
cheers
Alison
posted by AB_Gayle at 12:29 am (EST) on Apr 28, 2013
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
posted by Jeff_Carlson at 5:46 pm (EST) on Apr 26, 2013
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.
posted by Arctic-Stranger at 1:09 pm (EST) on Apr 25, 2013
posted by nessreader at 4:47 pm (EST) on Apr 23, 2013
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
posted by FicusFan at 4:11 pm (EST) on Apr 18, 2013
posted by tomcatMurr at 9:05 am (EST) on Apr 18, 2013
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.
posted by lawecon at 1:22 am (EST) on Apr 18, 2013
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.
posted by amac121212 at 5:10 pm (EST) on Apr 10, 2013
posted by bunwat at 3:02 am (EST) on Apr 8, 2013
posted by azyre at 12:39 am (EST) on Apr 5, 2013
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
posted by Hemmie at 9:33 am (EST) on Apr 4, 2013
S. Mayer PhD
posted by smayer at 7:04 am (EST) on Apr 3, 2013
posted by thelmashelma at 9:03 am (EST) on Apr 2, 2013
I'm sure many regulars would be interested to see!
posted by benuathanasia at 9:18 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2013
Very best,
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
posted by FrugalBookPromo at 4:41 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2013
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
posted by lucifiere at 3:38 pm (EST) on Mar 30, 2013
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
posted by trkravtin at 9:04 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2013
Also thank you for the cool badges you're giving out for our participation.
Thank You! :)
Volodymyr from Ukraine
posted by Vvolodymyr at 11:19 am (EST) on Mar 22, 2013
posted by MichaelGalt at 9:30 pm (EST) on Mar 12, 2013
posted by Clanky at 11:25 am (EST) on Mar 3, 2013
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
posted by boblinfortino at 11:19 am (EST) on Feb 25, 2013
Robert
posted by RobertKellySchleyer at 3:38 am (EST) on Feb 24, 2013
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
posted by GrantOverstake at 8:09 am (EST) on Feb 19, 2013
posted by fuzzi at 2:10 pm (EST) on Feb 9, 2013
posted by Smmceachern at 2:05 pm (EST) on Feb 9, 2013
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
posted by AVoraciousReader at 11:17 am (EST) on Feb 3, 2013
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.
posted by Sagittarian64 at 5:36 am (EST) on Jan 29, 2013
Thank you for the new badge.
Maarten
posted by bommelmj at 8:35 am (EST) on Jan 27, 2013
posted by sryder at 10:40 am (EST) on Jan 18, 2013
Thanks a lot for the badges. Can you give me an example of what I contributed to Common Knowledge.
posted by susieimage at 12:32 am (EST) on Jan 18, 2013
Thank you for the badges but I have no idea what they are and how to view them!
Tommie
posted by Tommie1 at 8:59 am (EST) on Jan 12, 2013
posted by thesmellofbooks at 9:17 pm (EST) on Jan 10, 2013
I have flagged them all, some are suspended, but have come back under new names.
posted by fuzzi at 7:21 pm (EST) on Jan 10, 2013
I'm very surprised.Tanks for the coverup loading badge
Happy New Year!!!
posted by mousse at 9:15 am (EST) on Jan 10, 2013
George
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