ita is me. Typing in an ISBN and it finding the right book is still so satisfying! I've only stumped it once (out of, say, 30 books so far), but since the book is in Greek that's forgivable.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
flea - Mar 16, 2007 12:20:37 am PDT #2200 of 28175
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Connie Neil - Mar 16, 2007 4:55:25 am PDT #2201 of 28175
brillig
You realize, of course, that all of this is just a gateway into people psycho-analyzing us--because of course *I* would never dream of studying everyone's catalogues and pondering what it reveals about them, along with their cataloging practices.
(And I keep having arguments with myself about avoiding the really trashy books and misrepresenting myself. Then I found out how many other people have "Fanny Hill" et al.)
Fred Pete - Mar 16, 2007 4:57:10 am PDT #2202 of 28175
Ann, that's a ferret.
Then I found out how many other people have "Fanny Hill"
I not only have a copy, I read it for genuine academic purposes. (History class -- paper on the court battles over pornography during the '60s.)
flea - Mar 16, 2007 4:57:42 am PDT #2203 of 28175
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I have tagged books belonging to my husband that I wouldn't own if I hadn't married him "Husband's". I have NOT specially tagged books belonging to my husband that I might have acquired if I had not married him, or at least which don't embarrass me to own.
Just in case you were wondering.
Connie Neil - Mar 16, 2007 5:00:29 am PDT #2204 of 28175
brillig
All my husband has--that I know of :)--are various military-themed SF/Fantasy books. The smut is mine. And I can't claim I have Fanny in the house for her historical relevance.
Hayden - Mar 16, 2007 5:42:03 am PDT #2205 of 28175
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I may adopt Flea's practice of labelling Mrs. Industries' books as such.
flea - Mar 16, 2007 5:47:16 am PDT #2206 of 28175
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Does Mrs. Industries own a copy of "How to Analyze Handwriting?" That's the only one I'm actually embarrassed about (so far). Otherwise, I just don't want people thinking I know anything about Differential Equations.
Kathy A - Mar 16, 2007 6:06:17 am PDT #2207 of 28175
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I used to have that book, flea! It got donated in the latest purge just because I never really read it and was being strict in getting rid of stuff I probably was never going to read, but that's the only reason it's not in my catalog.
Hayden - Mar 16, 2007 6:16:17 am PDT #2208 of 28175
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Actually, it's pretty easy to tell my books from Mrs. Industries's books, because mine are the books of a public policy wonk with an undergrad degree in philosophy and literature and hers are the books of a biologist in a book club that mostly reads chick-lit and young adult books. I'm not embarrassed about her books, but I've never read some of them. Those I've read were either great or (at least) ok.
P.M. Marc - Mar 16, 2007 6:52:42 am PDT #2209 of 28175
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
So I'm mohmlet at Library Thing.
Curse that, "Hey, don't we have a cat thingy in the basement somewhere?"
Not that I've dug it up yet.
Mostly, adding books from memory.