For someone who goes to see one movie a year on average, I have a lot more DVDs than I thought. I was entering them into my Library Thing catalog today and it turns out I have 36. Thirty-six! Eight Harry Potter movies and eight Star Wars movies bumps the total up fast, but still, …
Taken way too soon at age 33, here’s Eva Cassidy from “Live at Blues Alley” singing Paul Simon’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water.”
Last night I found an old Joni Mitchell cut. Joni, of course, is from Saskatchewan. Let’s hear one (well, four, really) from the Winnipeggers. Enjoy the patter between songs.
More CD cataloging music. From Joni’s 1974 Court and Spark album. I’m pretty sure that’s Tom Scott on the horn. I’ve got 301 CDs in the database so far. Maybe another 100 to go? I’m not sure.
A while back Library Thing made some programming changes which allowed its users to catalog their music and movie libraries. I have heretofore been keeping a spreadsheet of my CD and Vinyl music collections, but the widget I used to use to convert Excel to HTML doesn’t work with Open Office spreadsheets and it’s a …
And it’s celebrating! 99 million books cataloged by 1,980,643 members! Even better, for its 10th birthday it’s figured out how to allow its members to catalog not only their books but also their music and their movies, too. This has been on the wishlist of a lot of us for years, and now it’s here. …
I haven’t plugged Library Thing in a while. Let me point out the amusing and mostly useless statistics the system keeps about my library: Item: There are 256 different “series” to which my books belong (quotations because series is kind of free-form. Your books may become part of a series if some other Library Thing …
Library Thing has added a new feature which advises the library cataloger which of his/her books are part of a series. I foresee problems for those of us who are compulsive “completists.” The feature allows the user to determine which parts of a series he doesn’t yet own, which could lead to excessive book purchasing. …
Uh-oh. It’s bad enough I still haven’t read or reviewed Dream Lucky, which I got through Library Thing’s Early Reviewer program a week or so ago, but now I’ve been notified that I’m about to receive Barrie Sherwood’s Escape from Amsterdam as well. The To-Be-Read pile grows and grows.
If you’re up for a new book, are not intimidated by 600 pages of dense material, and like science fiction/fantasy, you should rush out and get a copy of Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. It was selected as a group read at Library Thing (discussion of Chapters 1-15 here and Chapters 16-30 here). One of the …