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.
Buffy: You tossed that vamp like he was a... little teeny vamp. Riley: You wanna go again? C'mon. I bet this place is just teeming with aerodynamic vampires.
'Help'
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."
Katerina Bee - Jun 04, 2007 10:01:55 am PDT #2720 of 28176
Herding cats for fun
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.
Gris - Jun 04, 2007 10:20:59 am PDT #2723 of 28176
Hey. New board.
I'ma have to LibraryThing. Darn it.
Necesito mas bookshelvos.
Aims - Jun 04, 2007 12:03:56 pm PDT #2724 of 28176
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I think we'll do the Library thingie when we move into our place.
Provided that ever happens.
meara - Jun 04, 2007 3:54:30 pm PDT #2725 of 28176
Raq, do you want to borrow a CueCat? I've got one...
sumi - Jun 04, 2007 4:26:36 pm PDT #2726 of 28176
Art Crawl!!!
Hey, timeline stuff for Harry Potter. (I don't know why I think this is important - but apparently I do and need reassurance that I have it right.)
50-some years prior to HP - Hagrid and Tom M. Riddle were at Hogwarts.
Almost 50 years prior to HP - Eileen Prince was at Hogwarts.
At least 10 years after that - Snape, J. Potter, Lily, Remus and Sirius were at Hogwarts.
Is that right?
Amy - Jun 04, 2007 4:31:45 pm PDT #2727 of 28176
Because books.
Oooh! While we're asking HP questions, someone remind me what a squib is?
sumi - Jun 04, 2007 4:33:14 pm PDT #2728 of 28176
Art Crawl!!!
Somebody with wizarding parents who displays no magical talent.
megan walker - Jun 04, 2007 4:35:59 pm PDT #2729 of 28176
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I have to admit that the most exciting thing about my day was signing up for HP7 at my new local bookstore.