The copy I have was new - so I am certain it is back in print.
Who among us can ignore the allure of really funny math puns?
Willow ,'Empty Places'
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."
beth b - Jun 02, 2007 9:00:04 am PDT #2713 of 28176
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
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.
Katerina Bee - Jun 04, 2007 10:01:55 am PDT #2720 of 28176
Herding cats for fun
We did try an ISBN, which did work. However, looking at those closely and typing 'em carefully would take me longer than dashing off the title. Me and numbers aren't all that friendly; not like me and the 26 letters.
amych - Jun 04, 2007 10:03:00 am PDT #2721 of 28176
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
KB, a lot of paperbacks have a bar code on the inside of the cover as well as the one on the back. In those cases, they're two different bar codes, and only the inside bar code is the ISBN (the one on the back is more like a grocery-store bar code, with a completely unrelated number).
(Confusingly enough, if a book only has the barcode on the back, then that one almost always is an ISBN.)
Kathy A - Jun 04, 2007 10:07:00 am PDT #2722 of 28176
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
When I worked at the bookstore, I got really good at typing in ISBN numbers using the keypad and my right hand, so much so that I get confused if I switch over to the phone number keypad, which is reversed (1-3 on the top row instead of the bottom). So, when I was adding in books to my LibraryThing account, ISBNs were the easiest thing to key in.
That reminds me, I have to add in the five books I got at the used book sale last month to my account, so I'm up-to-date.