Connie, we share a brain.
Inara: I think she looks adorable. Mal: Yeah, but I never said it.
'Shindig'
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."
brenda m - Mar 17, 2007 1:56:16 pm PDT #2231 of 28175
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Connie Neil - Mar 17, 2007 1:58:43 pm PDT #2232 of 28175
brillig
Connie, we share a brain
I'm itching to correct capitalization. Fortunately, there's no real place to put 440 tags.
brenda m - Mar 17, 2007 2:00:18 pm PDT #2233 of 28175
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
That's exactly what I've spent the last half hour doing. It's giving me a headache. I have to stop.
meara - Mar 17, 2007 2:58:17 pm PDT #2234 of 28175
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...
Sue - Mar 17, 2007 3:12:10 pm PDT #2235 of 28175
hip deep in pie
Marc is the coding that catalogers to make their catalog records readable in different computer library catalogs.
Connie Neil - Mar 17, 2007 3:59:45 pm PDT #2236 of 28175
brillig
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.
sumi - Mar 18, 2007 4:44:31 am PDT #2237 of 28175
Art Crawl!!!
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?
sj - Mar 18, 2007 4:47:06 am PDT #2238 of 28175
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
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.
Kate P. - Mar 18, 2007 7:05:39 am PDT #2239 of 28175
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I went ahead and added my name to the Buffista LibraryThing group -- I'm risingtide, for them that's curious. Don't know when I'll get around to actually putting in more books, but this gives me a little more incentive now.
Sue - Mar 18, 2007 7:14:43 am PDT #2240 of 28175
hip deep in pie
Sumi, there was an article in the Globe and Mail this weekend that talks about the new round of Austen interest. One thing I thought was interesting was that they are republishing the books with covers to attract teenage girls, and the new biopic, Jane Austen in Love (or soemthing like that) is being targeted to the same demographic. I guess it makes sense, most people are probably introduced to Jane Austen in their teens, but it still strikes me as odd.