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Ancient Rome on five denarii a day por Philip Matyszak

The living god por Dave Duncan

Face to face por Ellery Queen

Tooth and claw por Doranna Durgin

Callahan's crosstime saloon por Spider Robinson

Boris Yeltsin : a political biography por Vladimir Solovʹev

More tales of the black widowers por Isaac Asimov

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Autores favoritosCecil Adams, Piers Anthony, Isaac Asimov, Gillian Bradshaw, Jack L. Chalker, Arthur C. Clarke, Robertson Davies, Lindsey Davis, L. Sprague de Camp, Dave Duncan, Raymond E. Feist, R. Austin Freeman, Winston Graham, Michael Grant, Kerry Greenwood, Desmond Morris, Frederik Pohl, Terry Pratchett, James Randi, Andrew A. Rooney, Steven Saylor, Robert Silverberg, Charles Todd, Anthony Trollope, Peter Turnbull, Harry Turtledove, John Updike, Jack Vance, Gore Vidal, Lawrence Watt-Evans, David Wishart (Favoritos partilhados)

Sobre mimI am a cataloguer in an academic library. I hope this will elucidate to those of you who have heard from me why I have an obsession with keeping the LT data accurate.

Sobre a minha bibliotecaI am part of that eccentric minority that includes books they read-but-not-own in the LT list. My library currently lists everything I have read since 1985, when I was a teenager. I think such a list provides a better guide to my interests than a list solely of what I own. I get most of my reading material from libraries, since I don’t have an infinite amount of money to buy everything I decide to read, and even if I did have that much money, a lot of what I read would not be worth buying. (Though if I had an infinite amount of money, this wouldn’t matter.)

I am finally cataloguing the piles and shelves of books I own. Books I own are in the “your library” collection; books I read are in “read but unowned”; books which I haven’t confirmed ownership of are in “provisionally owned”. Some books may be more than one collection.

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Hello shmjay,
Thank you for adding my collection to your interesting libraries list. I have to confess that your occupation caused me an “oh dear, what might have I done wrong” moment as far as my tagging and cataloging is concerned ;)
Like everyone else I haven't read more than a few pages, but if you refer to the title, no, "uppgörelse" is pretty threatening in this context. Or perhaps it just sounds that way because we know who wrote it.
thanks for note - the quick & dirty entries from Amazon (or others) aren't always great. My kids are adding some of the basement titles while here for the summer; we'll see how that goes (they stop to read) - the Bridge edn of Hubbard was the one of a dozen copies they added - no doubt more errors will follow.

my goal is to get all the covers & edition info etc right - someday . . . when time allows
No. Dishonest marketing.
"Catalogue of Crime',has been entered in the new Collections under 'Wishlist'. I am experimenting with this at the moment as I am still unsure of the usefulness of it to me. Your query is in fact a good pointer in helping me to decide the way to go.
AACR1, yes that was so. And we had ONE dumb terminal that was connected to a computer about 500 km away, and that was operated by floppy disks. Those were the times! Britt Sofi
Yes, it would be useful in the other direction as well, but it is an English grammar, not a Swedish grammar, so as a learner of Swedish you would catch glimpses of Swedish grammar in a haphazard way, rather than learning anything systematic.
The grammar takes care to highlight differences and contrast Swedish and English throughout the book, inclusing "false friends", use of prepositions etc. Quite useful, actually, especially if you are a translator.
I found traces of your author splitting when I catalogued my copy of William Shaw's Memoirs of the life and writings of the late Dr. Samuel Johnson; containing many valuable original letters.... Nice work. If, by any chance, you'd like to help us with listing the Boswell library, drop me note.
Hi shamjay, Swedes do not THINK that the letters V and W are the same, we just use W for fun. Seriously, W is not included in the Swedish alphabet, and in Swedish both letters sound the same, that's why we treat both of them as V. - I'm a cataloguer at an academic library, too, the University Libraries of Lund, Sweden. I started cataloguing online in 1976 and am right now doing my last few days before I retire. Best wishes! BRitt Sofi
hello, regarding the book of Barzun, it says "jacket design by Cloud Studio" without giving the name of the designer.
I got the new book as an early reviewer so I thought to read this last one.

I've met Ray. The best man at my wedding is who Tomas is modelled after. I just think that Midkemia and Pug have seen too much play. When Talon came out, and we didn't even hear of Pug or the Kingdom, we had a chance to show the world without having to bring all the other stuff into it. Now it is just very tired/
What is the source by which you refer?
I hope I did not offend you. It was not my intention to do so.
Thank you for your reply. I will check for this title in my public library system.
It appears both you and I misspelled the action word (catalog). Oops!
Heh. In Swedish V and W are just graphical variations of the letter V. W has no separate pronunciation and there are no two words that differ in meaning because one is spelled with V and the other with W. W is only used for archaising purposes and in loanwords from German and English.

That notwithstanding, the Swedish Academy a couple of years ago announced that they will treat V and W as separate letters from now on, so you will see Sweden go over to that if you wait long enough. Hmph.

-j
Oh yes, that work is a modern turkey classic. Haven't got it or read it, though.
I liked the first Pennyfoot and so brought the next 8. This is years ago, but all I can see is she just wanted to crank them out and it is worse and worse. I hope my reviews will warn others of the things I feel are so horrible about this author. She lacks skill at mystery, and history. She has no voice.
You have catalogued "End of an era" http://www.librarything.com/work/2625835
This is being attributed to a "Robert Sawyer" http://www.librarything.com/author/sawye...
It should instead be attributed to "Robert J Sawyer" http://www.librarything.com/author/sawye...
and combined with the proper work http://www.librarything.com/work/1889260
Thanks for the info about Amazon's data for Rituals of dinner. I try to get LC metadata whenever possible, or LC-derived copy. I am also a professional cataloger in an academic library, so I'm with you on accuracy. LT is -so- not about accuracy, but it's worth doing our best anyway.
Thanks I deleted and fixed the Robert Frank book to get the Robert H Frank author. Looks like you are catching a lot of errors!
Thanks for the heads up on that error with Dreams of the Raven. I didn't catch it when I entered it. Have it correct in my other database at least don't have to correct it twice. Rolena
Thanks for the fix on The Rituals of Dinner, which I've corrected in my library, and sorry for the delay in responding.
Thanks for the author correction for Dreams of the Raven. I've fixed my record. I notice from your comments that you must do quite a bit of LT data correction. I think it's terrific that you let others know about the problems you've found.

Thanks again,

Amy
Hi shmjay, changed the author of my Dreams of the Raven copy to "Carmen Carter". Thanks for the pointer.
Thank you for the clarification on Dreams of the Raven by Carmen Carter. -- JSemenza
So it is (Carmen, not David A.). Thanks.
Thanks for the catch on my book! I don't know if I ever would have noticed...
Thanks for the info on my erratic (heh) listing. I fear that a few of my other books are equally incorrect, through one means or another -- at the very least, some of the Japanese-language ones. Thats what I get for coding them all through the cuecat without paying much attention as I went!
RE: Carmen Carter: Fixed, thanks for letting me know! I entered the Trek books in a big rush, I fear that's not the only error. (And I'm going to assume that you're working on combining here, and I should keep my itchy fingers off that works page. :D )
Thanks for your comment. Yes, I do intend to eventually show the date read for all the books for which I have that information--which means for all the books read since 1943. That will leave about 125 books without the date finished. All my reviews (really 'comments') are based on my reaction to the book right after I read it. I agree with you that a list of books read is much more significant than a list of books possessed. I can't tell you much about a book I possess but haven't read.
Effectivement, "L'auteur de Humanité est Jerry Oltion". Dans la foulée de la saisie, cela m'avait échappé. Merci de la correction.
Thanks for catching the error and taking the time to alert me!
Thanks so much for pointing out the error in the Rituals of Dinner entry! Have amended it. Good work!

Sue aka thewordygecko
Thanks for giving me the correct author information on Mighty Minutes!! You rock!
Wow - if the comments here are any indication, you're very thorough. I would like to add my thanks for pointing out the error in the Rituals title information. Corrected in my library!
Thanks much for your comments regarding "The rituals of dinner".
thank you very much (re: Visser)
Yes, cushla is the anglified spelling of cuisle, a part of the endearment "a chuisle mo chroí" - "Oh, beating of my heart!" (or in more idiomatic English "Oh, my heart's delight").

We do have a few books on Ireland. I'll continue to feed them into LT today.
I've removed the bk. 3 from the Miss Zukas title. I did not put it in. It came that way from the source. Perhaps you should notify Amazon.com or the Library of Congress of their mistake.

ezappas
Thanks, shmjay. I've removed the bk3 from Final Notice. --clarkwright
Simply sort by the secondary criterion first, and then by the primary criterion. So, if you specify sort by 'Date finished' first, and then sort by 'Date started', the result will be sorted by 'Date started', but any entries that have identical 'Date started' values will be sorted by 'Date finished' within 'Date started'. Of course, this assumes your question was related to sorting within catalogue view.

Hope I have been sufficiently clear - sometimes I run on a bit in my explanations ...
I can't double check right now because I'm packed for moving. But, as I always include the title as I see it on the title page, if it doesn't say a particular volume then you can assume this is not a part of a whole.
Thank You for pointing out an error with my Sparks, Catcher in the Rye book. It is deeply buried in a box do to moving recently as is my scanner lol. Soon as I get back to managing my librarything I'll make the change.
Thanks for the heads up. Spark Notes author changed accordingly.
Amazing Times amended as requested.
Thanks for identifying the erroneous Amazon entry on E. A. Wallis Budge.

Bill
Thanks, re Franny & Zooey. I think I may have entered the wrong book - I meant to add the book itself. I did it by memory, rather than by looking at my book. so, errors crept in! I'll check it next time I have a chance.
Thank you for pointing out the wrong-author entry on my Sparks notes book.
Hi,
Thanks for adding me to your list of 'Interesting Libraries'. Always glad to find someone doing this as it shows that I must be doing something right with the way I am putting my collection together.
All the best.
Ho! My bad.
It IS "We Always Mention Aunt Clara" rather than the first line of the song, i.e. "We never mention Aunt Clara..."
Ta, MMcKay
Thanks for the information.
Cleda
Thanks for the heads up in the book World War II, not by Budge. I've fixed that in my library.
Thanks for the correction on Trollope's Granpere, which I just found after a few weeks not LibraryThinging... it's not the only typo in my library, I'm sure.
Also removed the "Book 3" from the Miss Zukas mystery, but that's what came up when I added that ISBN. So it'll come up that way for anyone who enters that title by ISBN using Amazon as the source, I think.
I removed the bk 3 from the "the Final notice", Miss Dukas book but I don't think it's my summary. I think I just copied it from someone else. You are right it's not bk 3.
I changed "Grobte" changed to "Größte". Thanks for noticing.
Hi, looking at our shared books, I see that a couple are out of order when sorted alphabetically, namely Pyramids, which has author "Terry Pratchett" instead of "Pratchett, Terry", and Clouds of Witness, which has "Dorothy Sayers".
Many thanks re Rachel Ray..
I managed to buy some Folio Society Trollope's which I didn't own,
and entered them to LT from the bookseller's list. How careless!

P
Been a long time since I was on LT.... just now checked out my copy of fillyjonk who believed in disasters, doesn't seem to have the wrong author any longer, hope the confusion didn't last for too long while I was absent. thanks for noting!
Yes, I saw that they had been uncombined. I guess we know which side we each fall on in the lumper/splitter debate! ;)
Hi!

Yeah, I thought the Partridge Family books were long gone, but last year my Mom found them in her house and gave them to me...I haven't read them yet, but I gotta try 'em and see how bad (or not) they really are.
Thanks for that - Amazon UK had the title spelt wrong, and I hadn't checked it against the actual book.
Thanks for the info about LC numbers. I just couldn't remember what I was taught about those LC numbers in the 70's. I'm 42 yrs. old and that was way too long ago. :D
Thanks for catching that. I do most of my lists by name so that could have eventually been a problem for me.
I added the author for Terror Castle -- thank you! -- Amy
Aha! "edit book" is that pencil icon
at the right of each line on the search results page. Thanks.
I like the part where I spend two minutes "fixing" this so that instead of it being shared with 14 people its shared with two people - and you're not one of them - because you need to use Arkadi's full middle name.

Your welcome.

- Barney Dannelke
>So, could you please edit your copy...

sure thing
Thanks for the heads-up. I'll fix it.
fixed Steve Golden to Goldin. Thanks for the note.
The significance of bosco is that it is the nickname of one of my favourite characters from my favourite show, Third Watch.
Thanks for letter me know about the mis-volume-numbering of Asimov's Understanding Physics.
Re: Descent
Thanks for telling me. I honestly did not know that it was labeled wrong. I had just put in the ISBN number and let it fill the info out for me. I'm going to go fix it now.
Ok, j'ai changé pour une autre version. C'est bien Bruce Sterling qui a écrit Mozart en verres miroirs.
I have changed it to Leacock. (Normally when the book is a anthology, the Editor is listed, and it is tagged with tha author. Not important, execpt when it is short works from a number of authors.
Descent author fixed. Thank you for being even more anal than I am.
Thanks, I've fixed it [Descent, by Diane Carey].
my edition of Asimov's Foundation is a trilogy of the entire series :)
Ok. I planned to uncombine them, but I see that you just did that. Thanks!

Now, there is still some confusion as to exactly what books belong to that work. The edition I have is indeed an omnibus one, by Heineman/Octopus, 864 pages, and the mainly green cover that currently dominates its LT work page. All the six titles are listed on the cover page, which also has "complete & unabridged" printed at the bottom. There is no ISBN printed in the book itself.

However, some of the covers shown clearly belong to different editions, and LT keeps suggesting the work should be combined with editions of its constituent titles, including The Foundation Trilogy proper, probably because of LT users entering the wrong ISBN for their books. Or maybe they have the correct ISBN, but they have picked the wrong title? I guess we can't really tell without hearing from them.

Previously I have tried to minimize the confusion by identifying and separating out "hybrid" works, i.e. those where I believe the error is. We would still need the assistance of individual book owners to correct those errors, so that their books can be recombined with the appropriate works. Do you have some other idea that we could try?
You are right. The ISBN 3453313844 "Zerschmetterte Welt / The shattered world" is from J. Michael Reaves, but it is listed in Amazon.de under the ISBN 3453313852. "Das Lied der Macht" is from Greg Bear, but I do not know the original title. I scanned the bar code and Amazon.de added the wrong author. Thank you for the advice. Regards, Marcus
Thanks for the info. I changed the author for "Mozart en verres miroirs" to Various. Bruce Sterling is the editor and the author/co-author of different novels in this book. Various make more sense to me. what do you think ?
Thanks for pointing out my mistake. I have now corrected it
Thanks for catching "Hrolf Kranki" - the whiny viking!
Sullivan corrected.
Thanks! I just picked from the entries offered and didn't notice the spelling.
Treaty's Law author order changed as requested.
Friesner corrected, thanks.
I checked 'The Fillyjonk who believed in Disasters' and the author I have listed is Tove Jansson, in fact.... I'm not sure where the mix-up is. Sorry i't taken me so long to respond - I haven't checked in for many months
-alvilda
Do you have "Cold is the grave" or "The summer that never was"? They are actually two different books. Or do you have one book that contains both?

It's one book that contains both novels.
Thanks. I'm going to go through and make corrections on all the titles and authors when I'm done, but my library isn't complete yet.
WOW! You must be the 'correcterer in chief'.

It crossed my mind (only briefly),to say that it was a 'deliberate mistake' etc. But I kinda had the feeling that you wouldn't buy that.

Anyway, thank you for taking the time to put me right.

Colin
Driekantige wiel author - thanks, edited!
Thanks -- I've edited the author name.
Thanks for catching that! I'll change it right away.
Craig Brown corrected to Robert Craig Brown
In reply to your note,I have adjusted the Agatha Christie Crime Collection titles to show books included in the individual volumes.Makes sense.
devenish
I changed the author entry on the Boswell Journal. Thanks for catching that.
Thanks for the comments; the data's right in my input-by-ISBN file, so I assume it's LT that botched it somehow. My Friesner-to-Tilton and Vornholt-to-Friesner errors have been corrected.
allo, i will edit the "Craig Brown" entry. Thanks.
I changed the Keating/Governess entry, but you might want to have Amazon fix it on their end as well. Amazon has the original error.
Thank you, much appreciated.
Author to be changed from Thomas to Alice M.
Alice continues as a member of the Fleming family.
Enjoy life! LOL

turtle
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Have now made the appropriate change.
I made the change. I have noticed this problem with several entries (pulling from Amazon gives incorrect info) but haven't had time to thoroughly check my whole library yet. Thanks.
will do, thanks for letting me know
OK.
Will make the change. I enter via ISBN, so that's where the error is creeping.
I will make that change. Thanks

bhowell
Well, thank you for your comment. Perhaps you should also contact Amazon.com so that it can be changed when one enters the ISBN! I'll definitely make the change when I have a moment. Thanks again.
(Re: Histoire générale du Canada)
Done! Cheers.
Turns out I didn't have any author listed. I changed it to Robert Craig Brown as requested.
I edited Illustrated History of Canada as you requested.
Author listing of Treaty's Law changed. Thanks for the info. My listing came up from scanning the UPC. Wonder why it was non-standard.
I've edited my listing.
Thanks for letting me know. I changed in right away on 2/14/07.
done, thanks
Thanks for the heads-up, it's been duly changed.
Correction made as requested. Details were originally added straight from Amazon.
I changed "Probe"'s author to MWB, but I kept Gene DeWeese as co-author, since he rewrote the entire book before it was published. I also exchanged K.W. Jeter for Peter David as the autor of "The Siege" (that must have been false information by Amazon, which I used to catalogue my collection.

Cheers,
Michael
Sure. That is one of my spousal unit's, I will have a look at it.
I've changed *my* listing to Twain although I'm not sure how that effects the Vonnegut LIBRARY THING database as a whole. He was listed (by someone else - not me) as the author, mistakenly, because he and S.F. Fishkin wrote the supplemental material to the Oxford uniform HC edition.

Regards - Barney Dannelke (Any & All Books)

Unmuddled, PA.
I have edited my listing to show it as Cicero: On the Good Life "Translation by Michael Grant" which should correct the problem. Thanks.
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