Calendar view

I like to look at what I've read in calendar format - it makes me feel like I've accomplished something, and I tend to finish books on Tuesdays more often than Thursdays. Who knew?

Anyways, it seems like all of this data should be available from the "date read" field, and wouldn't be that hard to automate as a page from your profile or statistics page (but I know little to nothing about web programming beyond basic html, so).

So, nothing important; I don't even know if anyone else would appreciate this feature, but just a thought if someone who knows more than i do about writing code (read: anything at all) feels like a project.

THAT is very nearly the coolest thing I have ever seen in my life. I keep a book journal by date and am having only fantasies of logging this way now as I will never probably figure out how.

{we're not worthy!}

Heh, trust me, that html is pretty basic and probably not even done right. I learned all I know by trial and error and a couple of on-line html tutorials-for-dummies. :)

Still, feel free to steal the code... most browsers somewhere have a "View page source" option somewhere, and you can go in and steal the tables, and fill in your own books and images (I just use the book pages here, right click, and copy image address).

I am so jealous that you can read so many books so quickly. Someday, I hope to be retired . . . .

So how does one go about setting this up?

Fyrefly, that is a beauteous thing!! You really don't mind if I steal your code? I'll give you a linkback. :) That is by far the most attractive way to log books I've ever seen...

So, yeah, I'd dig something like that on LT, too ;)

Man, once I'm retired, I'm going to fly through books. I get through so many books in the summer because there are long stretches when I can read on the job, and then during the year because I can listen to audiobooks while I'm working. That one week in August was an anomaly - I took off work and lay around the house reading and doing very little else.

I absolutely don't mind anyone stealing the code since I mainly nabbed it from html how-to websites... actually, here, I'll put it up. I start with blank calendars, based on the day on which a month starts... you have to go through and delete the numbers if a month has less than 31 days. Here's the code, ready to cut and paste.

From there, on a date I finish a book, right after the number goes the code <br><img src="http://images.amazon.com/whatever.jpg" height="150"><br><b>TITLE</b><br>AUTHOR . The image address I mainly get from amazon by right-clicking their covers on the works pages here; the "150" makes them all show up as 150 pixels high, but if you leave that out, the amazon addresses that end in MZZZZZZZ or SCMZZZZZZ are all about 150 to 200 pixels high anyways.

...and with that, I've pretty much tapped my entire store of html knowledge. Code and enjoy (and post your calendars, I'd love to see other people's!)

But, of course, if someone with the knowledge wants to code it so that LT would do this FOR us, that'd be fine too. :)

Whee! I'm going to mess around with the html a bit to integrate it into my site design, and I'll have to add all the data later (luckily, I keep track of when I finish books, but unhappily I don't have the info with me right now) -- but I couldn't wait to put up a bare-bones calendar.

Thanks again! :D