tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post114359273961147195..comments2023-12-08T00:54:27.168+11:00Comments on Sorrow at Sills Bend: spine-blindnesslucy tartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1146112183876091222006-04-27T14:29:00.000+10:002006-04-27T14:29:00.000+10:00This thread is long-forgotten now but it is one mo...This thread is long-forgotten now but it is one month you since you created the monster in me that could only be satisfied by cataloging my books at LibraryThing. At last I'm almost finished except for two bedrooms which I am going to do at my leisure. It's going to be so nice to finish the day and not have to shower just to declog the dust!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04094574872650885802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1144197820101025972006-04-05T10:43:00.000+10:002006-04-05T10:43:00.000+10:00OMG Kate 'never be able to divide the collections ...OMG Kate <BR/>'never be able to divide the collections again' - that is TRUE 'commitment', there should be something on it in the Marriage Vows.BwcaBrowniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11500142856655553009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143801315993786952006-03-31T21:35:00.000+11:002006-03-31T21:35:00.000+11:00Unless I could take the catalogue into the book sh...Unless I could take the catalogue into the book shop with me, it wont stop me buying second copies of things I've forgotten I have. If I was unsure, and was inclined to check first (I'm a 'see a book, fall in love, buy it' kinda gal), I can find things quickly on my shelves. Unless it's one of the books Himself has moved on purpose to disrupt The System. Apart from those incursions, my books are Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143715452613938112006-03-30T21:44:00.000+11:002006-03-30T21:44:00.000+11:00Well you know I'm not a librarian, Val, but I do l...Well you know I'm not a librarian, Val, but I do like libraries. (Genevieve from <I>You Cried For Night</I> is a librarian, I believe.) <BR/><BR/>I have to confess that I don't use Endnote. *covers head, ducks* I gave it a decent tryout but we just never hit it off. That was some time ago, so it might all be different now (I didn't know it was so easy to import library records. But by the lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143707802827185732006-03-30T19:36:00.000+11:002006-03-30T19:36:00.000+11:00I should have just downloaded a scanned book cover...<I>I should have just downloaded a scanned book cover and wrapped it round a couple of Weetbix.</I><BR/><BR/>Hmm, I'll have to be on the lookout for this sort of thing in the library shelves. <BR/><BR/>So hands up, how many of us here are librarians or ex-librarians, or even should have been librarians?<BR/><BR/>Library Thing vs Endnote: if you have cheap/free access to the Endnote software (i.e.Valhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04456736523331076619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143706148547610932006-03-30T19:09:00.000+11:002006-03-30T19:09:00.000+11:00I think it depends on how many books you own, Kate...I think it depends on how many books you own, Kate. I have so many now that I no longer know what I do have and a few times I have re-bought or borrowed books from the library that I already own. The cataloging should solve that problem.<BR/><BR/>A second benefit I am finding too is that the books and shelves are getting a good and belated dusting. My nose is tickling tonight from all of Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04094574872650885802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143700260880814122006-03-30T17:31:00.000+11:002006-03-30T17:31:00.000+11:00to reveal my anal museums training here - what's t...to reveal my anal museums training here - what's the point of cataloguing things if you don't connect them to a shelf space? <BR/><BR/>in the end, if the shelves aren't orderly, no amount of cataloguing will help.<BR/><BR/>and as most of us leave our books in boxes/under the coffee table/on the floor beside the bed/in a handbag etc that can be a challenge.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143698784952158062006-03-30T17:06:00.000+11:002006-03-30T17:06:00.000+11:00OMFG, this librarything is amazing. I may inadvert...OMFG, this librarything is amazing. I may inadvertantly be revealing the Uluru-ic proportions of the rock that I have been living under lately but frankly I'm surprised that none of my recent editions of Anal Retentive monthly informed me of this wonder.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143684860522771332006-03-30T13:14:00.000+11:002006-03-30T13:14:00.000+11:00TRACKBACK<A HREF="http://www.mountainmurmurs.com/2006/03/30/library-thing/" REL="nofollow">TRACKBACK</A>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04094574872650885802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143673686992372552006-03-30T10:08:00.000+11:002006-03-30T10:08:00.000+11:00Dang, I forgot all about the shades of Pemberley. ...Dang, I forgot all about the shades of Pemberley. Please insert wherever you think appropriate.<BR/><BR/>I'll see your three copies of P&P and raise you six of <I>Wuthering Heights</I>. (See Kate's solution to the missing <I>Middlemarch</I>.)<BR/><BR/>I know I'll end up subscribing, but my current challenge is to choose which books I'd keep if I were only allowed to have 200.Kerryn Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143672054744298482006-03-30T09:40:00.000+11:002006-03-30T09:40:00.000+11:00Laura - please tell me you have my letter with the...Laura - please tell me you have my letter with the cash in it?<BR/>Sent about 2 weeks ago.<BR/>I did email you to warn it was coming.<BR/>xxxBwcaBrowniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11500142856655553009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143664576277819282006-03-30T07:36:00.000+11:002006-03-30T07:36:00.000+11:00Some added guilt for you, Laura: I am now scannin...Some added guilt for you, Laura: I am now scanning covers when they are not available elsewhere.<BR/><BR/>What have you done to me?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04094574872650885802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143630279180534872006-03-29T22:04:00.000+11:002006-03-29T22:04:00.000+11:00This is precisely why I ignored the laughter of my...This is precisely why I ignored the laughter of my friends and partner and shelved everything in order. It's not Dewey, but I can find things for a change.<BR/><BR/>I once had to buy a second copy of Middlemarch because the first was in storage. It was easier to buy a new one than to retrieve the old one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143627459676480622006-03-29T21:17:00.000+11:002006-03-29T21:17:00.000+11:00Good books get stolen. It's a fact of life. I've l...Good books get stolen. It's a fact of life. I've lost at least 20 copies of Lord of the Ring over the last 30 years :) I've also lost more copies of 'The wind in the Willows' than I can count; I don't mind. People steal them without knowing they steal. I seem to remember nicking a copy of the 'Go Between' recently on the same principle. Good literature propogates...<BR/><BR/>So when do we get Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143624913714512262006-03-29T20:35:00.000+11:002006-03-29T20:35:00.000+11:00MurmursSorry, can't stop to talk ... got hundreds ...Murmurs<BR/><BR/>Sorry, can't stop to talk ... got hundreds and hundreds and hundreds more to catalog! ;-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04094574872650885802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143623718527528562006-03-29T20:15:00.000+11:002006-03-29T20:15:00.000+11:00You're good at laying on the guilt trip aren't you...You're good at laying on the guilt trip aren't you Ron?? My only excuse is somebody did the same thing to me...I mean, <I>got me hooked</I>.<BR/><BR/>I wasn't smart enough to mark the books as I went. I went shelf by shelf. And I know I missed some.<BR/><BR/>It's fun finding out who else has copies of your favourites...and seeing what other books they have....and so on.<BR/><BR/>What ID have lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143622902036916812006-03-29T20:01:00.000+11:002006-03-29T20:01:00.000+11:00And I'm adding a tiny dot on the inside cover to i...And I'm adding a tiny dot on the inside cover to indicate to myself that I've catalogued it. Do you do something similar?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04094574872650885802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143622810600525112006-03-29T20:00:00.000+11:002006-03-29T20:00:00.000+11:00Oh ... what have you done to me? After commenting...Oh ... what have you done to me? After commenting above, I signed up and have now added seven books and it's TOTALLY addictive: by the time I add a cover, check other members who have the same book etc etc<BR/><BR/>I hope one day I will find time to sleep again!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04094574872650885802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143622179984431522006-03-29T19:49:00.000+11:002006-03-29T19:49:00.000+11:00I meant to add that you can try librarything for f...I meant to add that you can try librarything for free - up to 200 books.lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143622025371447032006-03-29T19:47:00.000+11:002006-03-29T19:47:00.000+11:00I haven't lent them, that's for sure. Everyone li...I haven't lent them, that's for sure. Everyone likely to want to read it already has a copy of their own, right? <BR/><BR/>Sometimes when my parents come and visit, my father steals some books. But probably not this one. <BR/><BR/>It took several sessions of a couple of hours duration to enter the ISBNs, Ron. Unless your book collection has lots of old / rare items it's pretty fast to enterlucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143620834092419642006-03-29T19:27:00.000+11:002006-03-29T19:27:00.000+11:00You have loaned all three copies to people like me...You have loaned all three copies to people like me who seem trustworthy (being ex-librarians and all), but are not. Write your name in your books - it doesn't guarantee their return, but it does at least embarrass people every time they open the book and see your name there.<BR/><BR/>PS my word verification is sloshpu<BR/>way better than the one I had at Pavlov's Cat's a few week's agoThirdCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17961559066632251691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143619354084495292006-03-29T19:02:00.000+11:002006-03-29T19:02:00.000+11:00How long did it take you to catalogue 1,368 books?...How long did it take you to catalogue 1,368 books?<BR/><BR/>That's the thing that stops me signing up: I don't want to spend the rest of my life cataloging and, like you, finding I have two or three copies of everything because I can never find a book when I want it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04094574872650885802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143606041464858812006-03-29T15:20:00.000+11:002006-03-29T15:20:00.000+11:00What a nice summary. Please, can I tack on the en...What a nice summary. Please, can I tack on the end "Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?"<BR/><BR/>If you turn up to teach a class on a book, without holding onto a copy of the book, they all immediately jump out of their chairs and start running round on the tables, and not in a Dead Poets Society kind of way. Or so I've heard. But yes, you're right. I should have just downloadedlucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1143605515522164692006-03-29T15:11:00.000+11:002006-03-29T15:11:00.000+11:00What, you mean you don't know it by heart, like so...What, you mean you don't know it by heart, like someone wandering around in the woods muttering at the end of <I>Fahrenheit 451</I>? "Truth universally acknowledged, single man, fortune, want of a wife. Due to an unaccountable prejudice in favour of beauty, he found himself the husband of a very silly woman. Mary, you have delighted us long enough. Oh, cried Elizabeth, I am excessively diverted! Kerryn Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.com