Thanks for the spell check - again! I was obviously in greater than usual hurry that day. It's always nice to find that someone is actually reading my reviews!.

skrevet af reading_fox kl. 5:54 am (EST) den Jun 16, 2008

Dann müsste eigentlich die deutsche Ausgabe mit der New Joys kombiniert werden. Na, ich hab auch so erstmal genug zu tun, komme ja nicht mal mehr dazu, meine restlichen Bücher einzutragen. Aber Du darfst Dich gern schaffen ;-)

Liebe Grüße
Almut

skrevet af Anxy kl. 10:56 am (EST) den Apr 7, 2008

Hallo Jim,

da Du in Nürnberg bist, nehme ich an, ich muss mich nicht auf Englisch abplagen. Du hast bei gangleri die Anfrage hinterlassen, ob Leo Rostens "Jiddisch : Eine kleine Enzyklopädie" eine Übersetzung von "The Joys of Yiddish" sei. Der Titel der amerikanischen Originalausgabe ist "The New Joys of Yiddish"

Liebe Grüße
Almut

skrevet af Anxy kl. 11:16 am (EST) den Apr 4, 2008

Yeah, Jane Eyre by UNK. Sorry I took so long to reply, Jim.

Jane Eyre by UNK is a sort of novelization for English Language Learners and/or children . . . it's not the 'real thing'!

Debra

skrevet af booksinbed kl. 6:21 pm (EST) den Apr 2, 2008

Jim, thanks for taking me up on my offer! I suspect my DLS data came from Amazon, since its on my wishlist, but I will clean it anyway.

Personally, I think data error messages are a good thing, at least until Tim can find a way of agreeing canonical data.

Regards

Sarah

skrevet af sarahemmm kl. 1:33 am (EST) den Feb 28, 2008

Thanks for the tip about not putting 'private comments' in the public template. We think we left the default at A when we set that one for our own use - set up a new one now.

skrevet af PandaB kl. 2:38 pm (EST) den Feb 26, 2008

Oops! Thanks for noticing.

skrevet af shmjay kl. 2:34 pm (EST) den Feb 25, 2008

Hi - I use the details from http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk for most of my details. Hope this helps.

skrevet af RedQueen kl. 9:24 pm (EST) den Feb 22, 2008

Dear Jim,
Thank you for the correction. The book was typeset in a German 'gothic' script and the 'tz' combination looks awfully like a 'k'. I wondered about it at the time, but assumed it was a word I didn't know. I should have looked it up.
Regards,
Paul.

skrevet af hinkley kl. 5:15 pm (EST) den Feb 20, 2008

Hi Jim,

Thanks so much for pointing that out. I'm always getting that sort of thing wrong! I've corrected it now :-)

skrevet af LizT kl. 7:03 am (EST) den Feb 16, 2008

Hi Jim

thanks for that - I think I probably just accepted one that was there already but if I put it in wrongly I apologise! Thanks for sorting it out. It was such a long time ago that I read it that I can't remember which was right. (I am adding from a list, not the books themselves). Much appreciated,

Cheers

Sarah

skrevet af sarahhayman kl. 7:18 pm (EST) den Feb 15, 2008

Have fun! Looks like the books we share are in the boring, predictable parts of our respective catalogs.

skrevet af oregonobsessionz kl. 5:46 pm (EST) den Feb 4, 2008

Virgil vs. Vergil. Yes, I did intend to, although I should probably cross reference them. P. Vergilius Maro is his Latin name. The Italians spell it Virgil. English spells it either way, though there is a tendency now to revert to the Latin spelling Vergil, which is my preference. However, in indexing my books I've used whichever spelling the author of the book uses in his/her title.
Sorry about the long delay. I haven't been on this website for a while.
Annabel

skrevet af robinsoa kl. 10:59 pm (EST) den Feb 2, 2008

Thanks Jim! i have updated my profile accordingly. Let me know if i owe you any royalties.

skrevet af MrAndrew kl. 10:08 am (EST) den Jan 27, 2008

Jim,
Thanks for finding the typo (using linguisitics, rather than linguistics). About 2-3 weeks ago, I went through my tags for spelling errors, and found about ten, but obviously didn't find this one, and I'm sure I have more. I did do a search on tags and found that someone has actually combined these two tags, and there are a few people who still have this error.

skrevet af vpfluke kl. 11:39 pm (EST) den Jan 25, 2008

Halló Jim! Vielen Dank für Deine Nachricht! Während der letzten Monate habe ich ausschließlich über Fremdrechner (z.B. in einem Internetcafé) Zugang zum Internet. Das Buch auf das Du Dich beziehst habe ich zu Hause. Es kann einige Tage dauern, bis ich eine kompetente Antwort geben kann. Gruß aus München lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט

skrevet af gangleri kl. 5:22 pm (EST) den Jan 23, 2008

Hi Jim,
Only just saw this. Thanks for this information - I've made the corrections.

skrevet af Devatipan kl. 10:34 am (EST) den Jan 20, 2008

Hi Jim

Have now fixed - hasty typing never works.

skrevet af dorisdayrules kl. 9:49 am (EST) den Jan 19, 2008

Hi Jim

Thanks for the information about the French-English dictionary. I will enter the author straight away.

Regards

Lizzy

skrevet af lizzylu kl. 10:24 pm (EST) den Jan 17, 2008

Also, has your wife read Candace Robb and her Owen Archer series? I'm reading one now and enjoying it, though at first I thought it was a knock-off of Ellis Peter's Cadfael series. I'd like to know what she thinks if she has read them, this is my first.

skrevet af MrsLee kl. 2:55 pm (EST) den Jan 11, 2008

Hangman is fixed, thanks for pointing it out. When I first entered books here, I didn't always use the ISBN, so came up with some odd editions. I've been meaning to go through and fine tune it all, but I get distracted into chatting. :)

skrevet af MrsLee kl. 2:52 pm (EST) den Jan 11, 2008

Wow, that was a silly mistake! Thanks so much for catching this!!

skrevet af ireed110 kl. 5:41 pm (EST) den Jan 8, 2008

Jim,
This is my initial entry, and I am trying to enter as much information as I can, such as tags and covers, but I must have missed a few. Thanks for letting me know about this!
~Lily

skrevet af lilyfyrestorm kl. 10:08 am (EST) den Jan 3, 2008

Oh, man, I knew nothing about that. Thanks for alerting me.

skrevet af languagehat kl. 1:48 pm (EST) den Dec 29, 2007

I just tried to edit some of the Original Language information and kept getting "editing error" messages. Bah. I'll try again later...

skrevet af languagehat kl. 10:15 am (EST) den Dec 29, 2007

Good point -- I should do that!

skrevet af languagehat kl. 9:54 pm (EST) den Dec 28, 2007

Hey thanks! And, doh! *makes mental note to log-out and check links* ;-)

skrevet af dodger kl. 12:25 pm (EST) den Dec 27, 2007

Jim,

re. Emma Lathen, Going for the Gold

>You probably got bad data from amazon.com.

Yep. I think you're right. I fixed it. Thanks.

Mike

skrevet af michaelhenderson1 kl. 8:49 pm (EST) den Dec 10, 2007

Hi he started writing them in the early 40s but it was 24 years before they were published in English so it depends once the early ones were published if the new ones were written in English. But the grooks mist and moonshine/motes and beams list being the first English editions in 1973(they first being printed in 1972). And say in the title page with the assistance of Jens Arup which would suggest translation rather then co-written

skrevet af ablueidol kl. 9:38 am (EST) den Nov 30, 2007

Thank you sir. No, I did not intend to say that the moon was using makeup. As you can imagine, with so many books, I entered many of them quite quickly. I didn't always catch mistakes from the sources. Title fixed. Thanks again.

skrevet af inkdrinker kl. 10:19 am (EST) den Nov 28, 2007

[grin] No, I'm not being over-sensitive after the recent conversation in SiteTalk. I was already feeling twitchy about that review link, simply because I hang out on various writer forums where we try to teach the newbies how not to look like clueless idiots, and plastering good reviews of your books around the net is one of the things where it's very easy to cross the line.

skrevet af JulesJones kl. 5:28 pm (EST) den Nov 22, 2007

Thanks for the heads-up on the 404, Jim. It was bad formatting that ran two links together, but I've decided I'd rather just delete it. Always made me feel a bit "should I be doing this?" linking to reviews of a book I was in, anyway...

skrevet af JulesJones kl. 11:40 am (EST) den Nov 22, 2007

Thanks (again!) for the compliments on my reviews. And I certainly don't expect everyone to agree with my opinions - that's what makes the world go round.

skrevet af hyperpat kl. 5:51 pm (EST) den Nov 15, 2007

Thanks for the heads up about the copying of my review of Pangborn's Davy by Delmonte. I've occasionally run into plagiarism issues before (I've been reviewing on Amazon for about six years and elsewhere previously), which is why I now sign all my reviews at the bottom (Amazon's feed allows associates to use posted reviews, and they often strip off the author attribution at the top of the review). I've flagged this review as a violation of terms of service.

skrevet af hyperpat kl. 5:13 pm (EST) den Nov 15, 2007

Thanks for letting me know about the "not a review" tag on my 'Gift From Earth' record. I did indeed add a little to it. Who has time to criticize other peoples' reviews? Sheesh.

- Will (wenestvedt)

skrevet af wenestvedt kl. 11:49 am (EST) den Nov 13, 2007

Hi,
no, it was mainly your impressive collection of linguistics books that I wanted to mark for perusal. I hope you don't mind if I browse there. And I also live in Landkreis Lüneburg. Thanks for the correction, I will get onto it immediately.
dempsterstreet.

skrevet af dempsterstreet kl. 4:47 am (EST) den Nov 9, 2007

Thank you on the insight about the missing authors. I'm working on the problem. Cheers!

skrevet af hairballsrus kl. 3:04 pm (EST) den Nov 3, 2007

Thanks for the heads-up about the typo in my 'On a Pale Horse' review.

skrevet af ryner kl. 10:39 am (EST) den Oct 29, 2007

Thanks for the info. I corrected it tonight.

skrevet af ESCAPE kl. 2:44 am (EST) den Oct 26, 2007

Thanks Jim,
Yours was the first feedback I got for reviews. It's good to see somebody actually reads them. ;-)

skrevet af Ravic kl. 6:27 pm (EST) den Oct 23, 2007

Thanks for advising me that I'd left the author off my Castle Roogna entry. I've adjusted it...

skrevet af onetrooluff kl. 10:55 pm (EST) den Oct 21, 2007

If I add a book and no one else seems to have it, I usually check the author page to see if the title needs combining. But I'm rather at sea with combining anonymous works, so someone else will have to sort out the Dutch bibles!

skrevet af MyopicBookworm kl. 6:30 am (EST) den Oct 12, 2007

thanks Jim, my plan is to get them all listed then go back and do reviews etc I hadn't realised about last name, first name. so does anyone have The Bone People? or is is just me?

skrevet af ladysunshine kl. 12:07 am (EST) den Oct 12, 2007

Thanks for your suggestion about fixing the title of the first volume of The Principles of Sociology by Herbert Spencer.

After some trouble, it got fixed.

skrevet af wirkman kl. 3:21 pm (EST) den Oct 9, 2007

Thanks for your corrections on Phil Dick and Tolkien!

skrevet af jotoyo kl. 6:59 pm (EST) den Oct 8, 2007

Thanks very much for noticing the broken link -- I'll go fix it now.

skrevet af languagehat kl. 9:08 am (EST) den Oct 6, 2007

Thank you for the heads-up on my catalog. Did you check every entry? That is an impressive amount of work if you did. Anyway, thank you.

skrevet af xenchu kl. 7:10 pm (EST) den Oct 4, 2007

Regarding "The Case of the Crimson Kiss"--Your translation is missing the final story in the collection, "At Arm's Length", featuring Jerry Marr, special investigator.

skrevet af Harry_Vincent kl. 8:49 pm (EST) den Oct 3, 2007

You asked why sometimes authors are entered frist name last name and other times in reverse. When I was originally entering my books I did not notice that the author field asked for last name first. I just automatically did firtst name first, which I find easier. Those times the entry has last name first is probably when the book has been scanned in.

skrevet af mitchellray kl. 3:55 pm (EST) den Oct 2, 2007

Yes I have....

skrevet af ksbioteacher kl. 9:39 pm (EST) den Sep 30, 2007

Yes Iam not consistant on the use of editors' names I very occasionally note a reason for the inconsistancies, at present my feelings are against it. pending expansion of that field. "BB", Watkins-Pritchard's pen name expects the quotation marks, but off the top of my head I cannot tell you about the "Sarban" I have a feeling I entered it by hand which would mean the quotation marks should be there but from memory I dont recall them. the misplaced commas and their effects on names are well caught. Thanks for pointing them out. Thought I had corrected all those. Wonder when and how they crept back.

Simon

skrevet af SimonW11 kl. 3:27 am (EST) den Sep 30, 2007

The contents of anthologies in my library tend to be in alphabetical order of title rather than the order in the anthology. This is because I have impoted the information from a spreadsheet which is regularly resorted. The exception is Analog magazine where the data has been borrowed from another user or OCRed from the contents list (which is not in order of appearance).

That said you're welcome to copy, as i say I,ve done the same with Analog.

skrevet af ringman kl. 9:27 am (EST) den Sep 27, 2007

Duh. blame it on not enough tea. Thanks.

skrevet af reading_fox kl. 7:34 am (EST) den Sep 27, 2007

Missing words - yep in addition to poor spelling my other sin is typing fast and not checking too closely. I know what I'm expecting to see so it looks right!

I really am in Manchester UK. Just in the southern suburbs. Oswaldtwistle is a ways north? I don't tend to get to that side of town very often. I'm not really a big city person, but being just on the edge gives the advantages of both worlds.

Whereabout is Niedersachen? I was around Hamburg for my placement year, another fun city, best experienced from the edges.

skrevet af reading_fox kl. 5:00 pm (EST) den Sep 19, 2007

I did of course mean metastasize - the concepts of the first story become widely spread and comonplace and also grown in size for the basis of the second etc. It seemed apt to me.

Yep, profile is fair game too, despite reading widely I've never been good at spelling.

How've you managed to get all the series' to come out in order without tagging them? Is it just carefully entereing in the correct order? (although of those we share your Inspector Morse books are higgelty pigglety).

Are you a visitor in Germany or native? I've some family out there, and also spent a year on placement there which I really enjoyed - hence the few german books in my collection, sadly I don't get the opportunity to refresh my language skill much any more.

skrevet af reading_fox kl. 10:09 am (EST) den Sep 19, 2007

Hello - that books on my wish list, so I have only the information provided on-line. If I find a copy I will let you know what I have.
Best,
Eileen

skrevet af RedQueen kl. 6:59 pm (EST) den Sep 18, 2007

Thanks for you comment - I'll have a look at the Harry Potter link thingie when I get a chance.

The Pratchetts aren't listed because at present I only have a "free" account, so I only listed my TBR books and complete the reviews as I read them. Once I upgrade I'll probably get round to adding them all on though...

skrevet af Kell_Smurthwaite kl. 4:53 pm (EST) den Sep 18, 2007

Hallo,
von Robert van Gulik haben Sie sowohl Nächtlicher Spuk im Mönchskloster als Das Phantom im Tempel. Sind das wirklich unterschiedliche Bücher? Wenn nicht, wäre es gängiger Praxis bei LibraryThing, sie zusammenzufügen.
MfG Jim Roberts

Moin,
sowohl Nächtlicher Spuk im Mönchskloster (ISBN: 3-257-21866-4) als auch Das Phantom im Tempel (ISBN: 3-257-21768-4) sind eigenständige Bücher.
Was ich jetzt neugierigerweise wissen möchte ist: Wieso sollten diese beiden Titel zusammengehören?

Mit freundlichem Gruß

Riveda

skrevet af Riveda kl. 4:32 pm (EST) den Sep 10, 2007

Thanks Jim. The mistakes one can make using the power editor!

skrevet af LizzySiddal kl. 9:49 am (EST) den Sep 8, 2007

LOL! Thanks, Jim. =)

skrevet af sweetdissident kl. 1:28 am (EST) den Aug 31, 2007

Caught me out with bad tagging. I actually find the screen layout very clumsy for tagging and often make mistakes. Now if my physical shelves were well ordered I would not have this problem. But guess what?

skrevet af m.a.harding kl. 3:40 pm (EST) den Aug 30, 2007

Jim, I took the first three books in my catalog, and editied the authors' names by putting first name last ex) Rogers, J.A. However, in the catalog it is still displayed as first name first. Does this mean the edit didn't take? Or should I remove all and do over from beggining?

I don't expect you to take the time to be my private tutor here, but didn't think you'd mind my asking since you pointed it out in the first place. Hope I'm not annoying you. =)

~Sweet Dissident

skrevet af sweetdissident kl. 4:38 am (EST) den Aug 30, 2007

Hi Jim!

Thanks for telling me about the manual entry mistake! I should have recognized as much; that the author's last name should come first. Thanks.

Do you enjoy Chomsky's writings on linguistics? From what I gather, he was quite a pioneer in that field, before, during, and after he became interested in U.S. foreign policy.

Thank you again for pointing out things that help we "newbies."

skrevet af sweetdissident kl. 4:38 pm (EST) den Aug 29, 2007

Jim,
Thank you for your note! This comes because most of my entries are imported from Amazon and other users and there is, alas, all too often, inconsistency in cataloguing. Because of my huge library, I have too little time to spend on each entry. But I will certainly fix this one.
I have several copies of most Gardner books. About 5-6 years ago, I purchased in eBay and entire collection of Erle Stanley Gardner Mystery Library collection (2 novels or books per volume). I estimte that I have entered about 20% of my entire library in Library Thing and despair of ever completing this task.
Best regards,
Enrique F. Bird

skrevet af EnriqueFBird kl. 3:14 pm (EST) den Aug 29, 2007

Hello Jimroberts!

I am new to LT, and I love it. I believe we corresponded in posts.

I see you have a Chomsky title, one of his works on linguistics.

I have not read much of his work in linguistics, but I do enjoy his library of books written about U.S. foreign policy. He is one of my favorite authors.

Anyway, nice to meet you here!

skrevet af sweetdissident kl. 6:43 pm (EST) den Aug 27, 2007

Yep, and with ones that old, you'd be lucky to find it. Would have to hope some project like The Compleat Adventures of Peter the Brazen, but with Speed Dash instead, failing some library having a nice collection they would actually let a normal person look at, or had digitised.

Jess Nevins has a book, or is going to have a book Pulp Holdings in the Northern Hemisphere (USA/UK) I tihnk, which might be worth a look, if you are keen.

skrevet af bluetyson kl. 12:26 pm (EST) den Aug 24, 2007

also, http://www.grooviespad.com/esg/works/Bib...

But I suppose you found those anyway, you might have to ask an ESG guru?

skrevet af bluetyson kl. 8:33 am (EST) den Aug 24, 2007

Hi jim, I am no expert on this I am afraid, I believ this is where I saw it, for list making purposes :-

http://pulprack.com/arch/2002/12/erle_st...

skrevet af bluetyson kl. 8:31 am (EST) den Aug 24, 2007

Sorry about that. I hadn't noticed it. I'll be going through my books with an eye to that problem. Thanks for letting me know.

skrevet af Fourpawz2 kl. 12:17 pm (EST) den Aug 22, 2007

Understood. I would actually prefer not to have a private library, but I have information in the comment field that I do not want to share with the whole world.

Being private has its drawbacks - I can find others with similar libraries, but no one is going to contact me with suggestions. All of my reviews are invisible, so I can't participate in the early reviews program.

Private comment fields have been promised since I have been on LT, and are rumored to be in the new user interface that they have been working on. I hope so.

skrevet af oregonobsessionz kl. 7:04 pm (EST) den Aug 18, 2007

"{thanks for the calm reply. Sorry for the rant, I didn't realise you were just passing on the publisher's information about the book, and there are a couple of subjects that I easily get worked up about when tired. Do you know James Moffat's translation? It's a bit old and I can't really judge how good it is, but it definitely takes a very different view of the individual words."

I have not looked at Moffat's translation in a very long time. It has been a number of years since seminary. Appology accepted on the rant. I don't have a large library, but a number of people from my congregation do like to borrow books from it so that is why I have it on LT. It also keeps me organized a little more. Enjoy the day my reading friend.
John

skrevet af mrdrjohn kl. 4:21 pm (EST) den Aug 18, 2007

Thank you Jim for your words on the ESV bible. I am a polyglot... three years of Greek and one year of Hebrew as well as 2 years of Spanish. The review that I put on the site is a direct quote from the publishers of the ESV. As you can also see from my collection. I read and study from more than one version of the scriptures. God's blessing to you as you seek His face and discover His truth which is all truth. John

skrevet af mrdrjohn kl. 2:39 pm (EST) den Aug 16, 2007

HI Jim
Matthew Parris sorted

thanks
Andrew

skrevet af scotsguyinwales kl. 6:49 am (EST) den Aug 16, 2007

Hi Jim,

I don't believe I know the other two titles so I cannot verify or deny that combination. Just based on the titles, my gut reaction is to say no. But that's almost a meaningless response.

Cheers,
Alex

skrevet af AlexTheHunn kl. 7:48 pm (EST) den Aug 15, 2007

Not familiar with those titles. Are those also books that are subtitled "The Best of Don Marquis"?

skrevet af burnit99 kl. 9:34 pm (EST) den Aug 14, 2007

No, "The Best of Don Marquis" is a collection of many of his writings other than the Archy and Mehitabel stuff, although there are selections from that. I don't know how to do a disambiguation (sounds like a bookish exorcism), so if you wouldn't mind...

Thanks,

Mike

skrevet af burnit99 kl. 5:07 pm (EST) den Aug 14, 2007

Hello jimroberts.

Your list looks completely accurate to me. I’ve posted a fuller reply in the Combiners! Thread.

Regards,
TabbyTom

skrevet af TabbyTom kl. 8:41 am (EST) den Aug 14, 2007

You did the right thing in separating "The Probability Broach" book and graphic novel. They are distinct works and should be treated as such. To go down the road of combining works because one is based on another might bring us silliness such as combining Shaw's Pygmalion with Ovid's. Thanks for taking the time to separate the two.

skrevet af chickitychina kl. 10:16 pm (EST) den Aug 13, 2007

Hi Jim,

It's interesting that you are going through people's libraries and commenting on the completeness of their tags. In my case, your comment was helpful, but I'm not sure all users will appreciate this sort of suggestion, nor would I appreciate it if all users were to take up this sort of vigilance.

skrevet af thelee kl. 8:34 pm (EST) den Aug 13, 2007

Thanks Mr Roberts! All now present and correct!

skrevet af lizzy_bb kl. 8:57 am (EST) den Aug 13, 2007

Thanks, I've corrected it!

skrevet af booksinbed kl. 1:53 pm (EST) den Aug 7, 2007

The name is from a favorite book of mine, one I regard as one of the first 'modern' (in the sense of psychlogical) novels - James Hogg's 'The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner'. In case you haven't read it the book is a powerful portrayal of the influence of evil in which a young Calvinist is led down the path of corruption, convinced of his freedom from sin by his elect status. In my case the tag is meant more as an ironic comment than a statement of religious belief.

skrevet af justifiedsinner kl. 11:33 am (EST) den Aug 4, 2007