**Master Thread** Personal Reading Journals - UPDATED

https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/**Master_Thread**_Personal_Reading_Journ...

Many thanks to everyone who has worked on this over the years, especially @SylviaC, @humouress and @AHS-Wolfy.

If you are unsure of how to update/add your info here are the instructions:

The following are to be completed if you don't already have an entry...

Step 1: Follow the link at the top of this post.

Step 2: On the Contents list, click on the corresponding letter of the first letter in your username.

Step 3: On the right side of the page click edit that is on the same line as the single letter (may have to scroll up just a tiny bit to see it.

Step 4: Find where you fit alphabetically and just copy and paste the formatting of an existing title (changing it to your own name obviously).

Step 5: Open your own reading journal thread in a new tab and copy the link (excluding from the # mark at the end (if there is one).

Step 6: Return to the wiki and paste your thread link on the line under your name that you've previously added (see step 4) and also add a year denominator at the start of this line.

Step 7: click in the captcha box (near the bottom of the page where it asks you t confirm you're not a robot) and complete any captcha that is required.

If you think you've messed up badly at this stage then you can always press Cancel. Once you're sure everything is okay...

Step 8: Press Save Changes.

You're done!

If you already have an entry...

After step 1 click on your name from the contents list, press the edit on the same line as your name, then follow steps 5 through 8 above.

>1 GreenDragon: Big thank you to you, Clare, for being there for us and minding the pub.

>2 pgmcc: You're most welcome.

I just want to bump this up a few times so the previous thread dies a natural death.

Darn, I missed the piffle party.

>1 GreenDragon: You’re welcome.

Also:

*bump*

>3 GreenDragon:
Will it be in pain?

So, where do we keep dead threads ?

>6 suitable1:
At a loose end.

>5 suitable1: That would be a very grave matter.

*bump*

Just bumping this up as a reminder. For once I remembered on my own!

>10 YouKneeK: Smart!

didn't we used to have a joke a day thread? sorely in need of one

>12 cindydavid4: You might be thinking of this one: https://www.librarything.com/topic/325334#n7415545

ahh thank you.

Am I missing something, or did we all stop updating this in 2018?

>15 Karlstar: What are you looking at? You have to click on the link in the first post. I have been updating my own links, as have a bunch of people. I have told people if they don't know how to do it themselves they should ask for help. I can see yours was last updated in 2020.

>16 clamairy: At the time I posted that, the link in the first post was giving me a 504 error, consistently, so then I went to the old link at the top and tried to find a new page and failed. It works fine now. Must have just been a LT issue and I was being impatient.

Ok! Ok! I have updated mine. Thank you for the reminder.

>1 GreenDragon: I'm getting a Gateway Time Out error message for the link in the OP.

Yup, me too. Wiki not loading.

>19 fuzzi: >20 Bookmarque: Seems to be a site-wide issue with wikis. There is a bug report open.

ETA: https://www.librarything.com/topic/356222#n8330046

>21 humouress: thanks!

Looks like the wikis are working again.

Don't forget to update your info with your 2024 thread.

https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/**Master_Thread**_Personal_Reading_Journ...

>24 clamairy: Oh did they fix the wiki finally?

>25 gilroy: They did!

>24 clamairy: thanks, done.

Boy, looking through that list and seeing so many names from years ago...

>27 fuzzi: It's a bit depressing. We have a lot of wonderful new members, thankfully.

Just a reminder, quite a few of you have not updated your person thread links here:

https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/**Master_Thread**_Personal_Reading_Journ...

If you can't remember how to do it, or are unsure about it, you can just post a reply here (or send me a note) and I will take care of it for you.

Done and done.

>29 clamairy: I don't know how to do this (yet?), so some help would be appreciated :)

>29 clamairy: I've been particularly remiss in updating it this year as I haven't even started a thread of my own as yet).

>31 Alexandra_book_life: It's pretty easy and I'll try and step it out here for you (and anyone else who hasn't done this before).

The following are to be completed if you don't already have an entry...

Step 1: Follow the link in clam's post above (this one).

Step 2: On the Contents list, click on the corresponding letter of the first letter in your username.

Step 3: On the right side of the page click edit that is on the same line as the single letter (may have to scroll up just a tiny bit to see it.

Step 4: Find where you fit alphabetically and just copy and paste the formatting of an existing title (changing it to your own name obviously).

Step 5: Open your own reading journal thread in a new tab and copy the link (excluding from the # mark at the end (if there is one).

Step 6: Return to the wiki and paste your thread link on the line under your name that you've previously added (see step 4) and also add a year denominator at the start of this line.

Step 7: click in the captcha box (near the bottom of the page where it asks you t confirm you're not a robot) and complete any captcha that is required.

If you think you've messed up badly at this stage then you can always press Cancel. Once you're sure everything is okay...

Step 8: Press Save Changes.

You're done!

if you already have an entry on the wiki for preceding years then after step 1 click on your name from the contents list, press the edit on the same line as your name, then follow steps 5 through 8 above.

Hope this helps. Can send me a message at any time if you need to ask a question or require further help (though I usually only check back once or twice a day). Or post here and I'm sure others will be more than happy to help out too.

>32 AHS-Wolfy: Thank you very much! I'll try it and see what happens :)

>32 AHS-Wolfy: I think it worked! Thank you very much once again.

>32 AHS-Wolfy: I hope you don't feel like these threads are your responsibility. Most people can figure out how to to it, and many of them just forget.

>34 Alexandra_book_life: Yay!

>34 Alexandra_book_life: Glad you got there and you're very welcome.

>35 clamairy: Not at all. Always happy to help out and I know others have stepped into the breach too. Hopefully with the step-by-step guide more people will realise it's not such a daunting task after all. Maybe you could add it to the opening post of this thread too so it doesn't just get lost with ongoing posts.

>29 clamairy: so many familiar names missing...

>37 fuzzi: I know. It's depressing. Quite a few of them still post in the Green Dragon on Facebook, at least. But some, like @aviddiva and @-pilgrim-, are gone.

>36 AHS-Wolfy: Great idea! I'll try to remember to do it tomorrow.

Just a quick question: when I make a new thread (it's time to do that soon), do I put it in the wiki too?

>32 AHS-Wolfy: Thanks! I've added the instructions (without step 1) to the top of the wiki - though I'm not wearing my glasses, so I hope my editing makes sense :0)

ETA: I'm thinking about thinking about starting a thread for this year.

>41 humouress: Thinking about thinking is always a good start.

I've added mine! Thanks for the reminder, Wolfy!

>40 Alexandra_book_life: People just tend to put their 1st thread of the year as if you use the continue thread option to continue your own thread then it will automatically be linked there.

>38 clamairy: I knew about @-pilgrim- but not @aviddiva. Shucks.

>44 AHS-Wolfy: Ok, thanks! :)

I added mine, thanks for the reminder!

>47 Karlstar: You're welcome.

I realized people just forgot, and I was NOT trying to make anyone feel badly.

>32 AHS-Wolfy: thanks for the steps, I have added my journal link

Thank you @AHS-Wolfy for updating all of the reading journal info. (The edit history seems to be pointing to you. LOL) Every time I tried to edit my wiki the whole thing was down. I think it's all fixed now.

Yes, thank you!

>50 clamairy: I'd fortunately updated most before the wiki troubles started so luckily only had to do some small catch-up edits afterwards. Think everyone's should be up-to-date now but apologise if I've missed anyone.

>52 AHS-Wolfy:
Your labours are much appreciated. Thank you.

>52 AHS-Wolfy: Many thanks for your hard work!

>52 AHS-Wolfy: Thank you!

To whoever already updated my journal information, THANK YOU.

I don't fully understand and added a date to mine when I last updated it. The only page I have is included, thanks for that, and wow!!! what a list, which must have taken some work.

It's brilliant to see all the personal journals in one place.

I hope it's okay to make this suggestion - as you have tis page that is like a content / index to all our personal journals, and as mythology is a vast area, it would be really helpful if we could add a very very short desc that gives an overview of what we read / what we are interested in.

I know I would find this helpful, and it's just a suggestion.

>57 AnishaInkspill: That's not a bad suggestion but I have no idea how to do that.

>58 Karlstar: of course, this would be a ver big task and a difficullt one.

This is just an idea, as we can edit or add link, than maybe just a few guidelines from you, like the option is there for us to add a brief / v brief descrition of our page after the link.

Maybe set a max number of words.
And a suggestion that it doesn't have to be complete sentences, could just mention the authors / myths / etc that page focuses on

So it's really up to us to describe our own page.

>57 AnishaInkspill: You could link your name in the list back to your homepage.

I feel that adding bios to the Master List wiki would make it bulky and unwieldy but you could create another wiki list for that and link it back.

>60 humouress: That sounds like a more doable idea.

>60 humouress: I didn't mean bios, literally a very short description of the page next to the link on the wiki page. so a page description but not a bio.

Yeah, I can appreciate this can get bulky which is why I suggested a max word limit.

And thanks for your suggestion, I will look into this when I get a chance, I'm still newish here and still getting the hang of things.

Thanks to all who have helped in doing this!

List has been updated with '26 journals so far. Nice to see a couple of returnee's to the pub as well as a new addition.

>64 AHS-Wolfy: Many thanks! I completely spaced on reminding people to do their own, or to even do mine.

>64 AHS-Wolfy: Thank you so much! 🥰

>64 AHS-Wolfy: Thank you!

>64 AHS-Wolfy: Thank you, that's awesome.

>64 AHS-Wolfy: Thank you so much! :)

>64 AHS-Wolfy: Muchly ta!

>64 AHS-Wolfy: Dang. I knew I forgot something.
Thanks Wolfy

Noob here - I apologize in advance if my question has an obvious answer (which, I image it likely the case) or easy to find answer (which I will discover to my embarrassment when someone responds to this post)...is "My Personal Reading Journal" simply a thread I create on the Green Dragon Talk page listing the books I've read and/or am reading in 2026?

>72 Gatoruss:
Yes! You are correct.

Welcome to The Green Dragon!

Look at some of the threads on the Talk page and you will get an idea of how different people use their thread. There is a lot of talk about books, but then conversations may wander onto holidays, wine and cheese, the nature of wild animals, etc...

Good luck with your new thread and I hope you enjoy it.

By the way, embarrassment is banned here. There is no such thing as a stupid question. We all do things that warrant embarrassment, but no one allows us to be embarrassed.

>72 Gatoruss: On the pub's home page, on the left just above the list of topics is a blue button marked "Post a new topic".
Click on that and it should bring up a new page with a space ffor the title of your new thread and a space for your first post. IIRC they're self-explanatory.

Don't worry, you haven't dropped a clanger. For one thing the locals always try to be helpful, and for another I had to open a second LT window to remind myself of what to do next!

>73 pgmcc:
>74 hfglen:

Thank you both!

>64 AHS-Wolfy: thank you!!!

To whoever put a flower by MrsLee's last thread, thank you.

Could you add a flower to pilgrim's last thread, too?

>77 fuzzi: I'm not sure* who added the rose to @MrsLee's thread, but I added roses to @majika's, @aviddiva's and @-pilgrim-'s last threads.

If anyone can think of someone I missed please let me know.

*I think it might have been @humouress.

I didn't know about @majkia or @aviddiva 😔

I met @majkia once, we met at a B&N when she was traveling through the area.

Thank you for adding the roses.

>77 fuzzi: You’re welcome. It seemed the right thing to do.

>78 clamairy: Thank you for adding the flowers.

>80 humouress: I was only following your example. A nice tribute. Thank you.

I forgot I could check the editing history on the wiki. Otherwise I'd still be wondering who did it.

>80 humouress: & >78 clamairy: Thank you. A beautiful touch.

>78 clamairy: Thank you for doing that.

That is a lovely tribute. Thank you both.