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CollectionsYour library (8,610), Comic book collection (3,654), Decision List (25), Read but unowned (186), Currently reading (6), Wishlist (4), All collections (12,444)

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Tagscomic books (3,673), fantasy (2,865), manga (2,399), science fiction (1,116), dummy tag for export (1,093), magic (655), anthology (510), action (474), urban fantasy (469), romance (436) — see all tags

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About meWorking in my college library sparked the cataloging instinct in me. After college I taught myself MS Access(tm) and created my own database. It grew over the years, but I've never learned enough programming to grab data directly from the libraries, so LibraryThing is a great time saver.... I take it back. LT is a time sink. Hours and hours spent adding books, verifying data, reading messages, etc.

I have many interests: books, bookmaking, fantasy, science fiction, cats, beading, crochet, embroidery, anime, math, astronomy, folklore, etc. It will be interesting to see how my reading habits reflect the above when I've finished cataloging.

About my libraryWill the library ever be organized?! Answer: Not if I keep buying books.

I catalog my comic books in comicbookdb.com, since it is better suited to cataloging comics than LT, but I regularly import them here so that I can export all the info into PalmThing!

When collections were first discussed, this was the only collection I thought I'd use. However, as I purge, I've decided to move books to the Read But Not Owned collection. Currently reading may have useful features in the future. I don't plan on using any others at this date, but we'll see.

I'm still verifying data and hoping for the illusive organized library and catalog.

GroupsAlmack's, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, BEA 2008, Book Arts, Book Care and Repair, Bookends, Bookmarks, Books in 2025: The Future of the Book World, Books on Books, Booksellers —show all groups

Favorite authorsNobuyuki Anzai, Patricia Briggs, Steven Brust, Lois McMaster Bujold, Emma Bull, Rich Burlew, Jim Butcher, Don Callander, Louis Cha, C. J. Cherryh, CLAMP, Susan Dexter, Debra Doyle, Diane Duane, Clare B. Dunkle, Ru Emerson, Richard Feynman, Phil Foglio, Alan Dean Foster, Esther Friesner, Neil Gaiman, Shaenon K. Garrity, Simon R. Green, Bisco Hatori, Dorothy J. Heydt, Georgette Heyer, Grace Livingston Hill, P. C. Hodgell, Diana Wynne Jones, Narumi Kakinouchi, Hajime Kanzaka, Barbara Kesel, Makoto Kobayashi, Tite Kubo, Mercedes Lackey, Sharon Lee, Gail Carson Levine, Willy Ley, Kara Lim, Anne Logston, Wang Du Lu, Ron Marz, Anne McCaffrey, Patricia A. McKillip, Robin McKinley, Hiroyuki Morioka, John Morressy, C. E. Murphy, Lisanne Norman, Andre Norton, J. Calvin Pierce, Tamora Pierce, Wendy Pini, Terry Pratchett, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Brandon Sanderson, Josepha Sherman, Will Shetterly, Linnea Sinclair, Raymond M. Smullyan, Wen Spencer, Christopher Stasheff, Yukiru Sugisaki, Natsuki Takaya, Howard Tayler, James Trefil, Mark Waid, Yuu Watase, David Weber, Tian Beng Wee, Michelle Sagara West, Aaron Williams, Patricia C. Wrede, Jane Yolen, Jack Zipes (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresBay Books, Comics MD, Daedalus Books and Music - Belvedere Square, Manteo Booksellers

Favorite librariesLibrary of Congress

Other favoritesNational Book Festival, Baltimore Comic-Con 2008, Balticon 43, Baltimore Comic-Con 2009, Balticon 44, Balticon 42, Balticon 46

LocationCalifornia, MD

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URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/trollsdotter (profile)
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Member sinceNov 29, 2005

Currently readingThe way of kings by Brandon Sanderson
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Bay books is closing? WOW! I'll need to swing by there sometime this week. Sorry to hear that.

posted by gilroy at 10:29 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2011

You may be interested to hear that, after more then 2 years waiting, finally issue 12 of Tom Beland's True Story, Swear to God, is published.

posted by Papiervisje at 2:31 pm (EST) on Mar 7, 2010

Cool about logging the convention programs. I notice you don't use the ultb tag. Do you know how to use the power edit feature. It makes it a snap to tag a larger list of books/programs. If you don't want to no problem.

posted by misericordia at 2:21 pm (EST) on Dec 16, 2008

I just found LT. I never could bring myself to learn MS Access, so my library was always handwritten. It is nice to see another profile that shares similar interests and investment.

posted by Snowcube at 5:51 pm (EST) on Oct 13, 2008

I love your profile picture! :)

posted by kiri_wren at 5:57 pm (EST) on Aug 19, 2008

It was kinda a shock when I looked at the calendar and saw it was already August. No, I didn't have a chance to write a review, this was the first time I logged in since it came out. It wouldn't have been a very good review anway, I've never seen a fan base turn against an author so fast as they did for this one. It was awful. She broke the rules of the world and then made it wayyyyyy to adult for the younger readers. I was all ready to absolutly love it, but I ended up wishing the series had ended at Eclipse. Everyone on the internet hates it.
I still enjoyed reading it though, since we got it at midnight and came right home, Meghan and I were racing and Becky just fell farther and farther behind, so one of us would read a part and make some sort of remark, and then when the other caught up she would make some sort of comment about seeing what the other meant, and Becky would throw something at the both of us. =^-^=

posted by storm_alchemist08 at 11:05 pm (EST) on Aug 15, 2008

Hey! Sorry I didn't reply sooner, I haven't had a chance to enter any more of my books in, so I hadn't logged in for awhile. I should enter most of them tomorrow, but if I don't get them all the rest of them will go up over the year or when I come home for Christmas or Thanksgiving. I ended up putting off packing, and all of a sudden I'm leaving on sunday. It came up really fast!

posted by storm_alchemist08 at 8:50 pm (EST) on Aug 15, 2008

I like the name, and it has a bit of a magic air to it. Also, I like the ending -dotter witch is kind of rare. Most people in Sweden have a -son name, meaning,of course, "the son of". Not only is it nice for PC-resons, so to speak, but it's a mutch more beutifull word.

posted by kokplatta at 6:47 am (EST) on Jun 19, 2008

Interessting name for an American, Trollsdotter. Daughter of a troll in Swedish. Where did you pick that up?

posted by kokplatta at 7:51 am (EST) on Jun 13, 2008

Did you name your cat from the Westing Game? That's wonderful!

posted by EmScape at 2:44 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2008

Sometimes I can be patient :-) It depends on the book. When I requested Vampire Knight I had just started reading manga and had a few different series I was actively reading so it was easy to wait. I've also had some instances where I've gotten sick of waiting for the library books to come in and just order them from the book store or Amazon.

The library I go to shelves the manga in the front room of the library where the periodicals are. Their manga/graphic novel collection keeps growing and it has pretty much taken over that particular wall. The young adult books used to be in the same place, although the "teen" section is in a separate room over in the children's wing. Now they've moved the YA section to a back corner past the reference books, but the teen section is still in the same place. I'm not quite sure how they differenciate between teen and young adult, but I think it might be a space matter more than anything else.

I can't imagine a library having so small a fiction section that they're just all mixed together!

posted by Jenson_AKA_DL at 4:27 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2008

I hope it gets there soon, sometimes it takes a while. It took 6 months for my reqeust for the first Vampire Knight manga to come in.

posted by Jenson_AKA_DL at 8:41 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2008

Hi! I was looking at my shared libraries and looking at what books we share. There are quite a few. I love your kitty riding the dragon, is that new? It totally cracked me up :-) Just had to let you know. I have a pic on my computer of Spiderman riding my cat, maybe I should put it up too.

BTW-Still waiting on xxxHolic volume 1 to come in from the library *sigh*

posted by Jenson_AKA_DL at 11:48 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2008

Thanks a ton!! I feel so stupid that I put volume 1 up on BookMooch (I've been taking the rest of the series out from the library). It was one of the first manga I read and didn't really get into it at the time. I should of given it more of a chance before doing that.

posted by Jenson_AKA_DL at 7:45 am (EST) on Mar 13, 2008

Hi! I was re-reading a comment you had made on the CLAMPers group and was wondering if you could tell me which volume Watanuki goes to get that hangover remedy from the Legal Drug store. I really want to go back and read it, but I have to get it from the library and knowing which volume would make it tons easier than just guessing on which one to request.

posted by Jenson_AKA_DL at 10:43 am (EST) on Mar 12, 2008

Thanks for your answer!

posted by koffieyahoo at 8:43 pm (EST) on Feb 5, 2008

Hi,

You seem quite active with combining the books of mangaka. Therefore, I have a question you might be able to answer: I some times run into the work of some mangaka while doing some combiningseparating. Now the problem is I don't really dare to do combiningseparting for those artists, as somtimes the volume numbers of the translations don't match with the volume numbers of the originals. For example, today I came across Takehiko Inoue and some of his books seem to have been translated in English, German, and French... So here comes the question: do you know of any good resource from which I can found out this information?

posted by koffieyahoo at 1:26 am (EST) on Feb 5, 2008

The first time I see a library with a (much) larger Manga content then my own. I am impressed. Just wondering where you store your books.

posted by Papiervisje at 5:34 pm (EST) on Jan 8, 2008

OK, two things. First - one reason HanDBase is so good is that it can import .csv files - so all my many years' attempts at cataloging stuff went in relatively easily. Note the relatively - I'm still setting up some of my databases.

Second - your cataloging sounds a lot like mine! I have had all my SF books cataloged several times, but until LT came along I never managed to completely catalog the rest of my books, and I'm still not quite finished (a shelf here, a box there...and then there's the new purchases...). But with LT's help I've got a better catalog than ever before, and have started tracking stuff I never could before (reading dates, for instance). A wonderful thing - and an enormous time sink, you got that right!

posted by jjmcgaffey at 11:40 am (EST) on Dec 2, 2007