Xander ,'Empty Places'
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."
three different versions of one novel isn't really too much for one person to own, right?
Looks at the shelf with multiple versions of Dracula
Looks at the shelf with multiple versions of Something Wicked This Way Comes
Looks at the shelf with multiple versions of Tanith Lee's Blood Opera trilogy.
Um, of course not?
I have three copies of "A Year On The Killing streets." One hardback, one beat-to-death soft cover, and the new reissued Anniversary one.
You mean the movie "Becoming Jane Austen?"
I did a quick Amazon check and the book isn't new -- it's just newly out in paperback which is even better for me and my lack of funds.
Yeah, that's the movie I meant, Sumi. In the article they quote someone as saying that Anne Hathaway was cast because she's got a following among young female fans of the Princess Diaries, and those girls are all 15-16 now, and that's the target audience for the movie.
I just signed up for LibraryThing. I'm LarisaG. Just five books in, and there's already one where I'm the only user who owns it. (The Vegetarian Traveler. Basically, it's a few paragraphs for practically any country you might want to travel to about where and how to get vegetarian meals, plus how to say "I'm vegetarian" and "Do you have anything without meat?" and similar things in about 100 different languages.)
Heh. And the one that I was positive would be unique -- the Chemical Rubber Company book of Standard Mathematical Tables -- is owned by 39 other users.
(As a librarian, I can't help but wonder when LibraryThing will be the catalog we all use instead of RLIN or OCLC to find the books our libraries don't own.)
So that libraries can set up some sort of interpersonal loaning thing?
Nyar. This is something I just really don't need to become obsessed with.
Accordingly, I've just signed up and started adding books. At work, right now, so I'm just adding stuff I can remember that's got listings on Amazon. Once I get home I can start adding from the vast stacks of books in the other room.
Oh GOD. I'm doomed.
Heh. I went over to a friend's house this evening, for dinner, and started to tell her what a big geek I was, that I'd spent Saturday putting my books into Library Thing. Turns out, she already has an account!!
Of course, she doesn't have the CueCat, so I've offered to loan it, but she also doesn't have internet at home riht now either, so...