what do you guys think about wings of fire?

I love this series and read it a lot

>2 MarthaJeanne: ?

Touchstone so people can find the series.

Why don't you enter the books into your account?

>4 MarthaJeanne: ooooh. I just made my account like a week ago

>5 alittleguy: But you can enter books from day one. Depending on what collections you use you would be able to go to the series page and see what books you own, what books you read from the library, and which books you don't know yet.

If I use 9780545349239 to search for The Dragonet Prophecy on Overcat on the Add books page, I see choices from several libraries, so it's about as easy as ant entry can be. Overcat is useful because it shows successful library searches that other members have made. Library data is usually very good. (Amazon varies a lot.)

BTW, on that work page you can see lots of reviews and learn what other readers liked or disliked about the book.

>5 alittleguy: As MarthaJeanne's comment illustrates, there are lots of amenities and features in LibraryThing. I found that info overwhelming when i first joined.

Here's a step by step way to simply add a book to your library:

In the white box above ("Search LibraryThing") enter the title Wings of Fire.
From the results, select the book you want to add.
Up on the top right side is a green +Add button. Click that.
Then at the popup click the green +Add to Your Library.

Voila, you are done adding the title to your library. You can get a whole lot more serious later about which edition, which Collection, what tags, etc. once you learn more about LT's robust cataloguing system.

Or, like me, you can be perfectly happy with whichever exact edition of the title is added to "Your books"

Here's a link to browse for Reviews:
https://www.librarything.com/nseries/10613/Wings-of-Fire

It is much better to use the Add books page. The button on the work page is a short cut with limited control over the quality of data that you get. For one thing many titles have multiple ISBNs. If you want your catalogue to be accurate, you need to be sure that the one you enter actually matches your copy.

>8 MarthaJeanne: That's the key: "if you want your catalogue to be accurate." There are times I don't. Like when I add books I want to read or like when I first started and found the pressure of finding the "right" source daunting (and confusing). The +Add was easier for me, especially since the GR import made a right mess of most editions I had so carefully selected on GR.

Remember that I was very recently a new user. Members that have been around since the beginning don't see the particularness and steps quite the way a newbie does, I think. We newbies usually go for "just get 'er done."

I actually am on the 8th book

Yes, and I see the books I entered any old way back so many years ago and just groan at the fixing that needs to be done.

yep, and what's your opinion on darkstalker?

>11 MarthaJeanne: Do you keep all your books? I don't, so in many cases I can hardly compare with the edition I have in LT with the actual one I read. I bet that makes a difference in our approaches. My "library" is not a library exactly. It's more accurate to say it is "What I've Read and What I Want to Read"--with some exceptions of very, very favorites I have kept.

>12 Marvelfan: the book or the character?

>13 DebiCates: I don't know, that seems even more reason to ascertain that the book you enter *is* the one you read? If you have, for instance, read the 'A' version of Piers Plowman, it is not going to be the same read as the 'B' version or 'C' version.

I've always tried to get the correct version in my own library, even when I have discarded books from my library. I also get photos of my own book covers for quite a few of my books, because I want to make sure it's 'what I have'.

Mind you, I am a bit compulsive about that, and not everyone else is that fussed about it!

>15 MsMixte: I can understand that there are those that care at that deeper level. And LT is a great place for folks that do!

For me, there are few instances where that level matters based on the majority of titles I've read (there is usually only one text version of most of what I read, disregarding things like Introductions).

Besides, all the particularness I took back on Goodreads when I had the book in my hands? That exactness got lost when I imported into LT. (Thanks I think to Amazon's sloppy data source, not GR or LT's fault.) Sigh. So my laissez-faire attitude is serving me well at this point. Otherwise I would be in tears over the state of my LT digital library.

I meant the character darckstalker from wof

This conversation thread is like one of those books where the author keeps switching back and forth between scenes.

>18 Cecrow: Much more interesting that way, isn't it?

>11 MarthaJeanne: I've been working on patching up things up, but I do have a lot of books! Currently working on getting photos of my book covers for those which don't have one yet. Only 22 (currently) left to do!

I just finished the 8th book and now on the 9th

>21 Marvelfan: Then why don't you list them? That's the whole and entire point of Library Thing. It's easy! It's fun!

OK I've read the first book, 3,6,and 8 I've also read the legends book of darkstalker.my library dosn't have all the books so i've had to skip some.

>23 Marvelfan: You can list books even if you don't own them. You knew that, correct?

You have the ability to make 'collections' for your own library. You can create/use one which is 'Read, but not owned'.

Many of us have so many books that often we can't remember what we have. LT offers a way for us to look up a book in our personal library to see if we need to add it to our collection.

We are really happy to have new readers here!

I enter the books my husband buys/reads so he knows which books in his favourite series are new (to him).

>26 im...kms: Why don't you simply try reading one or two books in the series to find out if you'd like them?