Member: vpfluke

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About meRetired. Formerly, Manager of Planning and Scheduling for Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE), and before that Manager of Scheduling for MTA Long Island Bus.

About my libraryMy collection includes books that my wife owns. I have about 5,000 books, and am in the process of cataloging them, about 100 a week. My interests include public transportation (rail, buses, scheduling), travel, linguistics and languages, some fantasy and science fiction, Oulipo, religion, Episcopal church, Enneagram, mathematics, almanacs. I also collect city maps and public transport timetables.
Flash! By Memorial Day, 2007, I have now reached over 4,000 books.
Since the beginning of 2008, I have 4600 books, some of my catalog includes books withdrawn, or "library books".
I reached 5,000 entries on July 4, 2008 Imnow cycling books out of storage (and some back), but also withdrawing.
I am at 5,600+ entries from the beginning of January 2010.
6,000 books from Nov 2011.
6,449 books in Nov 2014
6,586 books in Nov 2015
6,717 books in Feb 2018

Groups25 technical nonfiction books per year, A Pearl of Wisdom and Enlightenment, All Things New England, Amazon's Kindle, Archivists on LibraryThing, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, Bestsellers over the Years, Book Listers UNITE!, Books in 2025: The Future of the Book World, Books on Books —show all groups, Bookstore Tourism, Bug Collectors, Build the Open Shelves Classification, Buses Enthusiasts, Catholic Tradition, Christian Worship and Liturgy, Christianity, Church Libraries, City-Related Books, Classical Greek, Combiners!, Dewey Decimal Challenge, Dictionaries, Dictionaries & other reference books, Dictionaries and guide books, DORIS LESSING DIALOGUE, E. F. Benson, Enneagram personality types, Episcopalians, futures studies, Genealogy@LT, Google Book Search, Gospel Talk, Gregorian Chant, Hobnob with Authors, I Love Gov Docs, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Inklings, Labyrinths and the Walking Meditation Practice, Language, LC Classification Challenge, Learning Ancient Greek, LibraryThing Gatherings and Meetups, Librarything Local, Librarything Railroad (The LTR), Lingua Latina, Love the Library, Magical Realist and Fantastic Literature, Mensans of LibraryThing, Monks, Monasteries and Monasticism, Museums of the World!, Music to read by, My 50 favorite science fiction books, Myers-Briggs: All Types, Mythology, New York Times readers, Non-Fiction Readers, One LibraryThing, One Book, Oulipo's Virtual Headquarters, Paulo Coelho, Philadelphians, Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, Progoff's Intensive Journal, Reading Globally, Reviews reviewed, Robertson Davies, Singleton Showcase (Books!), The City and the Book, TinyCat, Too Obscure, top 20, Train Readers, Unique Library Thing Book Group, What's in your suitcase, bricks?, World Religions

Favorite authorsPatrick M. Arnold, Robert Bly, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavia E. Butler, Moyra Caldecott, Italo Calvino, Orson Scott Card, Agatha Christie, Paulo Coelho, Susan Cooper, St. John of the Cross, Robertson Davies, Diana L. Eck, Shūsaku Endō, Episcopal Church, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, David Hackett Fischer, Northrop Frye, Malcolm Gladwell, Rumer Godden, Edward T. Hall, Roy Harris, Edward M. Hays, Mark Helprin, Frank Herbert, Susan Howatch, Jan Karon, Morton T. Kelsey, Katherine Kurtz, Mercedes Lackey, Madeleine L'Engle, Doris Lessing, C. S. Lewis, Kevin Lynch, George MacDonald, Anne McCaffrey, Gita Mehta, James A. Michener, Desmond Morris, Kathleen Norris, Helen Palmer, Georges Perec, Chaim Potok, Michelin, Raymond Queneau, J. K. Rowling, John A. Sanford, Jack E. Schramm, Moacyr Scliar, Paul Scott, Nancy E. Shaw, Massey Hamilton Shepherd, Dan Simmons, Jane Smiley, Richard Tames, Shashi Tharoor, Phyllis Tickle, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, World Almanac, Arthur M. Young (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstores192 Books, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Country Glen Center, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Main Store, Book Revue - Closed August/September 2021, Borders - Manhattan - Penn Plaza, Idlewild Books, The Concord Bookshop

Favorite librariesEast Meadow Public Library, North Bellmore Public Library, North Merrick Public Library

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Real nameRobert (Bob) Campbell

LocationDurham, NC

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Member sinceDec 10, 2006

Currently readingMachines like me : and people like you by Ian McEwan
A beginner's guide to Japan : observations and provocations by Pico Iyer
Sea power : the history and geopolitics of the world's oceans by James Stavridis
Anatomy of Hatha Yoga : a manual for students, teachers, and practitioners by H. David Coulter