Willow ,'Showtime'
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."
Yeah, I think noticing that you can grab the Amazon link for individual books when browsing people's libraries might just have been a mistake.
But it is amazing, isn't it? I remember the days of stumbling across a book and loving it and finding it was part of a series and despairing of ever finding the rest. Or finding a new author and crossing your fingers that the library might have one or two of their back catalog.
I love me some modern world, I tell you what.
Someone please tell me not to start editing my individual entries and editing them to MARC standard.
Connie, we share a brain.
Connie, we share a brain
I'm itching to correct capitalization. Fortunately, there's no real place to put 440 tags.
That's exactly what I've spent the last half hour doing. It's giving me a headache. I have to stop.
What is Marc standard? Or is it better that I not know?
573 books (579, but I've got a few doubles [EDIT: whoops, found a few more. Make that 575. And I think I have a couple in the car...]). It doesn't SEEM like it's that big a number, really...and knowing that only maybe half to two-thirds of those are books I really like....huh. Perversely, that makes me feel MORE willing to go buy books.
See, I think I was unduly influenced as an impressionable pre-teen. One of my friends had me over to her house, and her stepdad had a library room. Which was shelves on three sides of a room (probably 8 by 8). Floor to ceiling. Basically filled with *exactly* the sort of books I enjoyed reading (scifi and fantasy). I was SO JEALOUS. Becuase of course, he wasn't about to lend his books to some random 12 year old friend of his stepdaughter's. But SHE *lived there*. She could read them any time she wanted! So jealous.
Someday, someday I will have that library...
Marc is the coding that catalogers to make their catalog records readable in different computer library catalogs.
re: MARC standard.
I spent ten of my happiest working years doing retrospective conversion for a company that converts physical card catalogs to computerized catalogs.
There are conventions for punctuation and capitalization and order of information, and I still make notations of books using those conventions. Not the most generally useful skill.
I can read catalogue cards in nearly all the European languages and Latin, used to be able to transliterate Cyrillic and Greek on the fly, and take a fairly confident stab at converting old Miss Grundy's personalized cataloging system into standard. I was the resident expert on Catholicism and medieval/Renaissance history and more than once had to tell people that Pope, Christopher was more than likely referring to the writer, not a resident of the Papal throne.
Yeah, I miss it.
Ooh, there's a new annotated Pride and Prejudice . . . three different versions of one novel isn't really too much for one person to own, right?
Ooh, there's a new annotated Pride and Prejudice . . . three different versions of one novel isn't really too much for one person to own, right?
Of course not. I have at least four copies, and now I want that one too.