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.)
Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?
Xander ,'End of Days'
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."
Hil R. - Mar 18, 2007 2:00:57 pm PDT #2245 of 28175
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil R. - Mar 18, 2007 2:44:19 pm PDT #2246 of 28175
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.
Sparky1 - Mar 18, 2007 2:56:59 pm PDT #2247 of 28175
Librarian Warlord
(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.)
sumi - Mar 18, 2007 3:19:21 pm PDT #2248 of 28175
Art Crawl!!!
So that libraries can set up some sort of interpersonal loaning thing?
JoeCrow - Mar 18, 2007 4:38:13 pm PDT #2249 of 28175
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
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.
meara - Mar 18, 2007 6:41:14 pm PDT #2250 of 28175
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...
Sparky1 - Mar 19, 2007 4:48:19 am PDT #2251 of 28175
Librarian Warlord
So that libraries can set up some sort of interpersonal loaning thing?
I was thinking more along the lines of confirming something exists, which I seem to do all time. Suddenly, it's tempting to create a LibraryThing of all the books I wish had been written, but never were...
Dana - Mar 19, 2007 4:50:39 am PDT #2252 of 28175
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
That's the library in The Dreaming.
t /Sandman
shrift - Mar 19, 2007 5:05:30 am PDT #2253 of 28175
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Oh GOD. I'm doomed.
Yeah, I have a bunch more manga to add, nearly all of my comics, and I totally forgot to add my cookbooks, and now I just want to go out and buy many, many more books.
Polgara - Mar 19, 2007 8:19:32 am PDT #2254 of 28175
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Evil addictive toy.
now I just want to go out and buy many, many more books
This! Mostly, I want to go to Out of the Closet, and buy back all the books I parted with last fall.