Hi!

Since you've added to the CK for some of the Star Wars series books, could you explain or point me to an explanation of the numbering you're using? I'm using List of Star Wars books (I hope I'm linking correctly) as my reference for adding more of the chronological order to the Series order. But I don't know where the numbers after the decimal come from.

For example, I edited The Changing of the Guard to add the series tag of "Star Wars (24 BBY)" as well as "Star Wars: The Rise of the Empire Era (24 BBY)". How do I determine the correct decimal to match your format?

Thanks!

Anne.

inlägg gjort av annekaelber vid 1:05 pm (EST) Aug 2, 2008

Hello! I just added Unity, a BSG novel, and saw your review. I just recently started getting into fantasy novels. I enjoy The Wheel of Time, The Sword of Truth, and A Song of Ice and Fire series so far; is there anything else you'd recommend?

~Jenny

inlägg gjort av goddessladyj vid 12:58 am (EST) May 28, 2008

You have a missing tag in your Exile review that totally messes up your reviews page:

http://www.librarything.com/profile_revi...

Well, maybe not totally, but it is distracting and I want to read your LotF reviews so I can see how wrong they are.

inlägg gjort av Stevil2001 vid 6:18 pm (EST) Apr 21, 2008

Hi Andrew, Thanks so much for your answer about how to use the 'dates read' functionality!

inlägg gjort av NativeRoses vid 7:02 pm (EST) Apr 10, 2008

I don't even count audio dramas. Even though I totally should. Because they're not books, and this is a list of my books! But I would like to catalog them!

inlägg gjort av Stevil2001 vid 9:49 pm (EST) Mar 10, 2008

Thanks for doing the work! I added the book to my catalog (hadn't done so for reasons similar to Steve's), but I had to search Amazon.com's catalog to find it. Imagine my surprise when there was no mention of anybody named Mollmann as the author. :D

inlägg gjort av MichaelS vid 3:15 pm (EST) Mar 10, 2008

I haven't put my eBooks into my LibraryThing. I guess because I don't count them as books? What sort of terrible hypocrite does that make me? One wonders if I should plump for one of those shiny author badges now.

And there's a reason the foreigner goes second...

inlägg gjort av Stevil2001 vid 1:59 pm (EST) Mar 10, 2008

You want to do Shaman Drum or shall I? :)

inlägg gjort av timspalding vid 9:47 am (EST) Mar 3, 2008

Hey! How's it going? I haven't talked to you in over a month. I got into Wayne State's pharmacy school, so I'm going there! (Must...avoid...senioritis...) I've also discovered that having twice-weekly acupuncture across the street from a giant Barnes and Noble is quite nice, especially when your parents alternate driving you and therefore don't know that you just got half a dozen books two days ago. Now, I just have to find the time to *read*...though I did finish four books over the weekend. Do you know if any new Star Trek is coming out soon? It's been a long time since anything except the SCE books, and I reallllly wish there was some Ds9 or NF to look at.

Btw, I just ordered a new computer (my dad wants to steal my current laptop.) I got a 4200 rpm, 200 GB hard drive. Is that okay (remember, I use the computer primarily for Sims 2, writing, iTunes, and hopefully Spore)? Or should I buy a faster hard drive and plunk it in the new computer when it gets here? I wanted the big hard drive, and Dell didn't offer it at a faster speed in the Inspiron.

inlägg gjort av julieryc vid 12:41 pm (EST) Feb 12, 2007

Hmmm...

As it turns out, I couldn't *find* Enchantress upstairs when I went to look, although I swear I had it earlier. (It really makes me wonder: exactly what did I enter for that second ISBN when I did the manual ISBN entry? I know I came downstairs with two books from that series, and I didn't think I grabbed a random one. Just one of those I-am-slowly-going-crazy things, I guess.)

Yeah, the needing-to-finish thing was what got me through Voyager, although it couldn't keep me to the point where Enterprise apparently got better. I think what did it was two bad series from the same people back-to-back. New Frontier comes out so infrequently that I don't mind picking the latest book up; besides, there's usually at least one thing to guarantee a laugh per book, and usually more. It's not as if they've gotten *that* bad, although I am annoyed at the bits-and-pieces approach to filling us in on background. Also, the future-Kebron bits kind of disappoint me, in that they kind of give away things (like, for example, that Zak will survive the series), although Peter David's probably perverse enough to kill him off just because. Most of his stuff is pretty good, although I did read Knight Life and found I wasn't interested enough to buy its sequel. (Any idea when the next NF book is coming out - or DS9, or something not related to TOS? It kind of annoyed me that there weren't any Star Trek books this year that I was interested in, excepting SCE, and those aren't that great. Also, the NF books with their skipping around didn't annoy me so much as the DS9 relaunch's wtf? Jake marriage, which seemed really fast as well as a "oh, look aren't we clever with using continuity from a parallel universe" kind of thing.

Have you been watching Battlestar Galactica? How is it? I've read all the critical "this is the best sci-fi series ever" reviews, but haven't actually gotten around to trying to watch it. (I also haven't read Dune, which ought to be second on my should-read book series, after Shogun and its sequels/prequels.) I guess it's like "Heroes": one of those shows where I probably should watch a few episodes from curiosity but haven't found the time/inclination.

I suppose that my grad school worries are different from college application worries in that I really didn't have any of the latter: I applied to U-M and MSU only (the latter not because I doubted getting into Michigan, but felt weird applying to only one school), and had virtually no worries about getting in. Also, both apps were in by October, and I had both acceptances back before Christmas break. So, not so much worry the first time around.

Hey, sifting through used textbooks could be worse than the alternative: you have to buy all new because there are new editions out/professors are using a different book, and you know that your nice shiny $160 microbiology book will probably be worth $20 after this semester, if they'll buy it back, that is. (I also annoyingly had to buy new copies of all the Austen books for my Jane Austen class, but, on the other hand, I guess it's time for some new copies anyway.) Also, when you buy your books, I take it your apartment/car isn't far from the bookstore. Dollar Bill Copy, Michigan Book and Supply, Shaman Drum, and Accucopy are all far enough away from each other (and the parking structure) to make the difference in temperature a definite factor in making buying books a happier time when it's warm. (Of course, this means I now have to go get a head start on all the reading when I've got a stack of books I'd rather be looking at, but that's unavoidable.) Are you not working at Eastern's campus bookstore, then, or are they just too cheap to give employee discounts?

Also, on a random note: didn't evil Willow look a lot like evil Jean Grey in X3? I listened to the director's/writer's commentary of X3 over break, and they said something like "We took a lot of time choosing how she would look. We looked at about 20 different things," and I basically thought, "Hmmm...or someone's watching Buffy and not admitting it." Ironically enough, Wikipedia says that "Willow's dark turn in Season Six is explicitly compared to X-Men's Dark Phoenix Saga, of which Joss Whedon is a huge fan," but X3 was (obviously) done after Season Six of Buffy, making the coincidence in looks even weirder. Apparently, dyed darker hair + dilated pupils + bulging veins = surefire indicator of evil.

inlägg gjort av julieryc vid 1:57 pm (EST) Jan 6, 2007

Hey,

The two pairs of books I have the problem with are:

Merchant Prince vol. 1 and Merchant Prince vol. 2: Outrageous Fortune by Armin Shimerman,

and

Enchantress and Spellbinder by L.J. Smith.

The latter bothers me more than the former because the Merchant Prince is at least a trilogy (of which I should probably buy the last book to finish it - finishing even so-so series is sort of a obsessive-compulsive trait I have), so they could plausibly be listed together, where the L.J. Smith books are only set in the same universe and have unconnected plots. (On an unrelated note, the author quit writing with ONE FRICKIN' BOOK - the one that would tie all the others together - left in the series back in the late nineties. No one seems to know why she never finished, although she's apparently still alive, which is insanely annoying because of the above obsessive-compulsive trait that makes me want to read the last book in this series which, unfortunately, doesn't seem to exist. What was really annoying was that, at the time, Amazon.com had preorders, a title, and a plot summary available for said final book, and then it all *poof* disappeared. But I'd at least like to have the two books catalogued as non-duplicates.)

On an unrelated note, I don't mind the nice, warm weather at all. It's a lot better to go buy textbooks in 50 degree weather than 10 degree weather. And I've always enjoyed break; Christmas was nice this year (particularly not having my annual Christmas cold, and remaining cold-free despite the best attempts of my 4 and 9-year-old cousins to infect me on both Christmas and New Year's.) They're also really cute and fun to play with, although you'd swear someone gave them a bottle of Mountain Dew each on New Year's Eve; I think confetti and the promise of staying up until midnight works the same effect as caffeine in little kids.

Break did seem to go by way too fast, although I suppose breaks always do. I've always liked Christmas break more than Easter, since there's usually an exam to study for or a paper to do over that break, and Easter break (I should probably call it spring, since it never actually falls on Easter weekend) is of shorter duration. Of course, I had to study for (and take the first part of) Wayne State's speech exam and do second-round grad school apps over Christmas, but that ended up being only a small part of the two-and-a-half week break itself, with plenty of time to write (actually, work on editing some old stuff), watch movies, read, and generally take a real break from school, which is always nice after the overload that comes at the end of the semester. I also started acupuncture for my headache over break, which is surprisingly relaxing; at one point, I actually fell asleep with 15-20 needles stuck in me. Of course, I'd stick pins in a voodoo doll if I thought it would help, but this actually seems to work [at least some of the time, which is more promising than most other things I've tried. And it does have at least some scientific basis, as apparently sticking needles into muscles can relieve spasm and therefore help pain.] (And about the voodoo doll, who knows? My History of Witchcraft prof has promised to teach us some ancient Egyptian spells, although he's said he can't guarantee their effectiveness :-p )

Here's to hoping I can pass the second part of that speech exam in two weeks: I actually have to give a speech, which is harder than doing the written part (yay for an easy textbook to read through, and it did actually answer a useful question I never thought to ask: the difference between font types (e.g. serif).) Of course, for it to mean anything, I've got to get into WSU's pharmacy school, and pass the interview on the 10th (the speech exam gets me out of doing summer speech at Madonna.) Does Eastern have a speech requirement for undergrad? I remember you said something once about the graduation requirements being different from U-M's. You're lucky you can do what you want with a B.S., if only because it's a little nerve-wracking to be worrying about getting into a first-choice school (mine's Wayne State), or any school, for that matter. Here's to hoping I'm being all nervous for nothing.

inlägg gjort av julieryc vid 10:50 pm (EST) Jan 5, 2007

> FYI: You have Babylon 5 #6: Betrayals listed in your library as being by Neil Barrett, Jr. While he was the author of #5 (The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name), Betrayals is actually written by S.M. Stirling. =)

Thanks -- just joined and loaded by ISBN and haven't checked them all like that. Have no updated the record.

inlägg gjort av lewispike vid 5:42 am (EST) Jan 5, 2007

Oh, you're so lucky you get the extra couple days off. I go back tomorrow. How's your break been? Mine's been way too short.

I saw that you're in a Combiners! group that talks about splitting/combining authors and such. Do you know if there's any way to split books (i.e. books by same author that are different works with different ISBNs but show up as duplicates of one another)? I've got that problem with two pairs of books; even removing them from my library and re-cataloging by ISBN, they show up as still being duplicates, which bugs me terribly, since they're not.

inlägg gjort av julieryc vid 6:45 pm (EST) Jan 3, 2007

Hey, I see someone else has joined! And you've actually tagged some of your books - something I've never quite gotten around to (yet, although my major achievement this break was getting everything I own into LT.)

inlägg gjort av julieryc vid 5:43 pm (EST) Jan 2, 2007

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inlägg gjort av MichaelS vid 6:06 pm (EST) Dec 16, 2006