David, have you read The City, Not Long After ? I read it this weekend and it seemed like something you'd like.
I got stupid. The money was too good.
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
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 - Jun 01, 2007 4:40:58 pm PDT #2710 of 28176
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
DavidS - Jun 01, 2007 4:51:15 pm PDT #2711 of 28176
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
David, have you read The City, Not Long After ? I read it this weekend and it seemed like something you'd like.
Good call! It's a book I never have on my shelves because I'm always giving it away as a San Francisco memento to visiting friends.
This started back when my friend Ann was doing her residency in Minnepolis and I sent her War of the Oaks (which is set there). She returned the favor with The City Not Long After.
It's not always in print, so I tend to scan for it on the used shelves.
Consuela - Jun 01, 2007 6:48:07 pm PDT #2712 of 28176
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I think it's back in print--I saw a number of copies in the dealer's room at Wiscon last weekend.
I really need to read Pat Murphy's other stuff.
beth b - Jun 02, 2007 9:00:04 am PDT #2713 of 28176
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
The copy I have was new - so I am certain it is back in print.
Katerina Bee - Jun 03, 2007 12:37:48 pm PDT #2714 of 28176
Herding cats for fun
I have been playing with my new CueCat. Yay Library Thing, for it is the coolest thing ever. I think I will make a poster of my cover collection.
I've found the CueCat's scanning capabilities don't always recognize the 80's paperbacks I tried to feed it, but I figure the time I'll save cataloguing the newer stuff will make up for having to type in some of the titles.
-t - Jun 03, 2007 12:54:04 pm PDT #2715 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Look for codes on the inside of the front covers, Katerina. Sometimes they are they are weird lengths and dont' really look like UPC codes, but scan just fine. And sometimes you just have to enter the codes by hand, of course.
Volans - Jun 04, 2007 5:57:39 am PDT #2716 of 28176
move out and draw fire
My plan was to enter all my books into Library Thing when they came out of storage, as I was shelving them.
Too bad I forgot to pack the CueCat.
amych - Jun 04, 2007 6:46:33 am PDT #2717 of 28176
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
LibraryThing has added a friendslist-like feature. It is quite possible that I will never get anything done again ever.
Katerina Bee - Jun 04, 2007 9:39:37 am PDT #2718 of 28176
Herding cats for fun
The issue with my 80's paperbacks wasn't that they didn't have bar codes - at least, some of the late-80's ones did. Neither Amazon nor Library of Congress recognized those I scanned. Alas. Then I typed in the titles, and bam! THERE they were.
Fortunately, I'm a superfast typist, so entering a bunch of titles doesn't seem like hard work to me. The trouble will mainly be a) accessing all the books and carting them over to the keyboard/workspace, and b) finding that pesky motivation to do so.
Kathy A - Jun 04, 2007 9:43:48 am PDT #2719 of 28176
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Did they not recognize the ISBNs either? If you key that into LibraryThing, it should recognize it.