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skrevet af jglassow kl. 3:37 pm (EST) den Aug 15, 2008
Thanks,
Jonathan
skrevet af jglassow kl. 2:16 pm (EST) den Aug 15, 2008
Actually, if you read how Tim describes a series, "Classic British Literature" is not a "perfectly legitimate series". He specifically excludes publishers series from the definition. He says, "Also avoid publisher series, unless the publisher has a true monopoly over the "works" in question. So, the Dummies guides are a series of works. But the Loeb Classical Library is a series of editions, not of works."
I exchanged comments with the programmer of that template, and he agreed with me on all but one point. (The point of disagreement concerned how volumes in a series are numbered in the "Series" field.)
The series in question were "World Perspectives" and "City Lights Pocket Poets". Both embrace volumes by different authors; and some in the first might exist as editions outside the series (even those in the series having the same publisher are at times of different sizes from one another). Otherwise, distinguishing by editions hasn't been done, though I hope soon it is. Ideally, one should be able by search find all instances of a particular book, regardless edition. And, able to find only the volumes within a given series (however one otherwise classifies them).
There are other problems with classifying every edition as "the same," as that isn't always the case, and there are other reasons to distinguish by edition. In the first instance, there are many different forms of (as example) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: some have all the original illustrations; some have only some of the original illustrations; some have no illustrations; and some have modern illustrations instead of the originals.
There can also be significant differences in front and back matter which can be sufficiently significant to be noteworthy (I've always included introductions, forwords, prefaces, though not [yet] appendices). "The Oxford Mark Twain," as example, has 29 volumes, each of which has (1) the series editor's Foreword, (2) an Introduction specific to the particular volume written by a famous writer or a Twain scholar of note (the Introduction to Huckleberry Finn is by Toni Morrison; Kurt Vonnegut wrote an Introduction for another; and Hal Holbrook, famous for his one-man Twain performance, wrote that for the 29th volume, Speeches), and an Appendix. And if the volume has illustrations, there is a back-essay about those. (Once my entire library is online, I'll consider going back and including Appendicies, at least where they are of immediate importance.)
As for the volumes themselves, in particular Huckleberry Finn, and in addition to the issue of illustrations, the text is not always "the same" volume-to-volume. Within the last ten years or so, the long-lost, and assumed permanently-lost, half of Twain's final MS was found in a trunk in an attic in California. (It was rejoined with the other half, which is in Buffalo, NY.) That MS has textual content that was deleted immediately before publication of that which is known as the official "first" edition, which makes it a different edition (on several grounds). Yet there is no way to distinguish it, except by disambiguation notice -- but that notice attaches to all editions/copies of Huckleberry Finn.
I've been experimenting in effort to find a way to distinguish by edition, at least within my catalog, but at present it isn't possible to do so, in part because there are those who insist that which is not a series -- "Tom Sawyer" -- is a series simply because the several volumes inserted into it happen to have a few of the same characters.
skrevet af JNagarya kl. 8:35 pm (EST) den Aug 8, 2008
1. My consistent standard is Turabian.
2. I stick strictly to the information provided in the actual book. I don't add any "missing" information, or omit relevant information which is included.
3. When dealing with elements of an existing entry I'm using by default -- title/subtitle, ISBN, etc. -- I ensure that they conform to those in the actual book. (Amazon is riddled with errors, which I correct whenever I've time*. And I only do that directly from the book; if I haven't the book, I make no changes.)
3. As a published writer -- an author -- and victim of copyright interference/infringement -- I have a thorough understanding of copyright law. In addition, I'm a legal professional.
_____
*There is an entry for a Denise Levertov volume on LT which is identical to that on Amazon. The "title" consists of three volumes by her, which are included in a 3-in-1 -- which has an actual title, but is not that given. (I suspect it was entered that way by a seller who wanted to hype the book, or didn't know better.) Whenever I come across that "title" on Amazon, I've insufficient time to correct it; and whenever I come across it on LT, I wish I could correct it.
(In some such instances I've posted comments to the cataloger requesting corrections be made, but haven't seen or heard a thing in response, in any instance.)
skrevet af JNagarya kl. 2:20 pm (EST) den Aug 8, 2008
The thing that really bothers me, is that a New York Times reviewer recommended it, while having the same qualms that you do in your review.
Sorry to ramble. It just feels good not to be the lone dissenting voice...
skrevet af randoymwords kl. 5:14 pm (EST) den Aug 4, 2008
I had a question about your quarentine critera because you quarentined my photo of Flannery O'conner & Walker Percy. I took an original photo of an open book & several of my books together. The books had a photo of the author. But it is an original photograph, only one photo of its kind. I do not see it as any different than posting the thousands of book covers we see on LibraryThing. Are not all the bookcovers copyrighted? What if I post a bookcover for the author's photo, will you quarentine that?
Sincerely, Jonathan
cc: Abbey Blachly
KingRat flagged for this reason: nice try. it's still a derivative work of a copyrighted work, which means you need permission.
lilithcat flagged for this reason: A photo of a copyrighted photo is still a copyright violation.
inge87 flagged for this reason: agree
skrevet af jglassow kl. 11:48 am (EST) den Jul 23, 2008
-Jennifer
skrevet af inge87 kl. 12:56 pm (EST) den Jul 22, 2008
Twoey the Bad Cat has gotten by on his cuteness for lo these eight years. The vet gushes over him and laments that he can't be bred (his fur is particularly bright red-gold, although you can't tell it from this photo). Then there are the vet techs who argue about whose turn it is to deal with him.
skrevet af stringcat3 kl. 2:17 am (EST) den Jul 22, 2008
thanks -
stringcat3
skrevet af stringcat3 kl. 2:12 am (EST) den Jul 21, 2008
Debra
skrevet af booksinbed kl. 11:35 am (EST) den Jul 17, 2008
Debra
skrevet af booksinbed kl. 12:47 pm (EST) den Jul 16, 2008
skrevet af muzzie kl. 10:42 am (EST) den Jul 9, 2008
skrevet af deniro kl. 8:39 pm (EST) den Jul 8, 2008
Thank you for looking up the other bookshop. I made it to Top Shelf in Palatine today. They were closing so I will have to go back soon when I have more time to browse.
Ponder
skrevet af ponder kl. 7:42 pm (EST) den Jun 21, 2008
Also my library is a work in progress!
I write you from Genova, Italy do you know?
Bye or CIAO!
skrevet af dzog kl. 3:02 am (EST) den Jun 18, 2008
http://www.librarything.com/profile/lili...
Enjoy!
skrevet af farmershat kl. 11:05 pm (EST) den Jun 7, 2008
skrevet af gangleri kl. 4:57 pm (EST) den May 6, 2008
skrevet af gangleri kl. 4:34 pm (EST) den May 6, 2008
regards gangleri
skrevet af gangleri kl. 4:10 pm (EST) den May 6, 2008
See you in the combining helpers log.
Moe
skrevet af moekane kl. 4:14 pm (EST) den Apr 10, 2008
Thanks, I'll do that: but since the image is unequivocally PD, is any credit at all really necessary? For instance, I've never credited the National Archives and Records Administration on any of the public domain USHMM photos I've uploaded.
P.S. What does "Clear" copyright mean?
skrevet af BOB81 kl. 9:44 pm (EST) den Mar 24, 2008
I am new to LT just joined yesterday and paid dues. I read your posts on the Etiquette forum talk and you made some posts along with others in Feb about combining and problems with amazon etc. You also made some very insightful comments about language and how to approach communicating with people online which I really appreciated being a language teacher ( French). You seemed pretty understanding and interested in the topic so I was hoping maybe you could explain to me what that was all about? I ask because I have a lot of French books and some books in English with no ISBNS and when I started adding books last night sometimes when I typed in the ISBN I could find the book in both Amazon and Library of Congress- I always check LC first but then sometimes could only find it via aazon or amazon.fr - I also noticed what seemed to be errors or confusion either on my part about what cataloguers had entered for some books on every single one of those sites. For example even on LC for one of my French art books the author listed was actually the editor and in French you have publishing and printing series and editor's series that all follow different names and there is no field provided for that in English since it doesn't seem to really correspond. How the books are really known by what seris or grouping is done a little differently over there as well for art books so it doesn't quite translate. It has been done inconsistently across LC amazon and amazon.fr and some university sites. I am not quite sure how to correct it in the data I imported via LT when adding the book? and what is considered bad data that we new users should be aware of to that it doesn't cause problems for others? I really appreciate your help and response back. My email is
cherlyng@earthlink.net Thank you/merci bien,
Cheri Glanville
skrevet af cherlyng kl. 2:05 am (EST) den Mar 21, 2008
I'm the librarian.
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skrevet af lilithcat kl. 6:15 pm (EST) den Feb 12, 2008
skrevet af whitewavedarling kl. 8:49 pm (EST) den Feb 10, 2008
Kind regards,
Marie-Thérèse
skrevet af marietherese kl. 2:14 am (EST) den Jan 8, 2008
I always did love a good set of fantasy books, and quite frankly, the reason I picked up the boxed set in the store was for the fact the set was entitled "His Dark Materials," so I figured it was about something dark and mysterious, so I'm guessing I will end up liking them a lot. :)
skrevet af Jessa0711 kl. 9:58 pm (EST) den Dec 20, 2007
Thank you for your input on "The Golden Compass"!
Based on what you have said, I do believe you are correct, that the best I can do is read the books for myself and then decide or not how I feel about them.
And you recommend all three books, you'd say?
skrevet af Jessa0711 kl. 1:10 am (EST) den Dec 20, 2007
AKF
skrevet af akfarrar kl. 2:29 pm (EST) den Dec 6, 2007
I am so sorry. I wanted to look at your reviews so I came to your profile and my mouse clicked on something that now says "invitation sent." I don't know what it is I am inviting you for, or to do, but I didn't mean to click. So if you're wondering who I am and why I am inviting you to whatever, all I can say is that I am a Librarythinger with a loose mouse!
skrevet af nbmars kl. 4:54 pm (EST) den Nov 16, 2007
skrevet af bjorker kl. 4:14 pm (EST) den Nov 13, 2007
Thank you for leaving a note about your confusion.
Caroline
skrevet af Caroline_McElwee kl. 12:05 pm (EST) den Nov 13, 2007
I finally made it Powell's bookstore. Do I need to say I love it?
Ponder
skrevet af ponder kl. 6:44 pm (EST) den Nov 3, 2007
skrevet af LiterateHousewife kl. 9:52 pm (EST) den Oct 29, 2007
skrevet af markell kl. 9:50 am (EST) den Oct 26, 2007
(And, actually, I do have one specific question. Are your shelves around 35" wide? Are they fixed or adjustable? And have you had any problems at all with the shelves sagging when fully loaded?)
Thanks - Patchen
skrevet af markell kl. 1:47 pm (EST) den Oct 25, 2007
I`ve just added posted some DLS-related info that might interest you - Message # 16 under `Tell Me What You`re Collecting` in the Book Collectors group.
Hope you are well,
Nick
skrevet af nickhoonaloon kl. 1:45 pm (EST) den Oct 6, 2007
I hope you don't mind, but I copied your "seven swans" and "spam" haiku from the Pirate Haiku blog comments to the Wiki.
In the "spam" haiku, I wasn't sure if the (?) was intended to be part of the poem. I took the liberty of removing it, but could easily re-insert it if you'd like. Let me know.
skrevet af SilentInAWay kl. 3:23 pm (EST) den Oct 2, 2007
skrevet af VictoriaPL kl. 4:47 pm (EST) den Sep 19, 2007
skrevet af randoymwords kl. 10:58 pm (EST) den Sep 15, 2007
Jim
skrevet af jwhenderson kl. 2:01 pm (EST) den Sep 15, 2007
I am still trying to figure out how I post a picture of my current reading in my profile. I went back to your instructions on my page from a few months ago and I am not understanding. Do you have time to help?
Ponder
skrevet af ponder kl. 5:59 pm (EST) den Sep 12, 2007
skrevet af wunderkind kl. 2:52 am (EST) den Sep 8, 2007
skrevet af randoymwords kl. 10:17 pm (EST) den Sep 7, 2007
http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...
I noticed you have quite of the few titles I covet, and you're more than welcome to comment!
skrevet af desideo kl. 9:01 am (EST) den Sep 5, 2007
No, I didn't check the original source... *blush* So thank you for being so observant :-) It is best if the original source is credited :-) I have changed it.
skrevet af Ketutar kl. 4:14 am (EST) den Aug 13, 2007
skrevet af tylercurtain kl. 9:38 pm (EST) den Aug 10, 2007
skrevet af TheresaWilliams kl. 2:49 pm (EST) den Aug 3, 2007
skrevet af VictoriaPL kl. 6:48 pm (EST) den Jul 23, 2007
skrevet af VictoriaPL kl. 3:57 pm (EST) den Jul 23, 2007
Thank you for the warning Lilithcat. I thought it would be enough to identify the photo's link source.I had found such great photos... But copyrights first!
:-)*
skrevet af Moranga kl. 10:13 pm (EST) den Jul 22, 2007
Would you be able to send me directions on how to upload the book cover to my profile? I see that you are asked frequently. Thank you for the help.
Ponder
skrevet af ponder kl. 7:10 pm (EST) den Jul 19, 2007
skrevet af rgustafson kl. 2:22 pm (EST) den Jul 12, 2007
skrevet af rgustafson kl. 12:00 pm (EST) den Jul 12, 2007
Thanks a ton, Lilithcat!
skrevet af thegreattimsbooklist kl. 9:59 am (EST) den Jul 10, 2007
A quick question regarding those pics you posted under currently reading. I followed the advice you had given to another thingamabrarian and it works great however, when amazon has no pic of the book on file, I've tried using other sites pics (or even LT's user pics) and always come up with a broken picture box when I save my profile using the non-amazon address.
Any suggestions/ideas? I appreciate your help! Thanks.
skrevet af thegreattimsbooklist kl. 9:09 am (EST) den Jul 10, 2007
Thank you for the link tip.
Ted
skrevet af papyri kl. 6:22 pm (EST) den Jul 8, 2007
Catalog
skrevet af catalog_theLTcat kl. 5:22 pm (EST) den Jul 7, 2007
- Bill
skrevet af willmize kl. 11:37 am (EST) den Jul 4, 2007
skrevet af thegreattim kl. 8:07 pm (EST) den Jul 1, 2007
skrevet af thegreattim kl. 1:07 am (EST) den Jul 1, 2007
Thanks for the info!
Sincerely,
John
skrevet af SpacemanSpiff kl. 7:49 pm (EST) den Jun 24, 2007
Very nice collection!
And I understand about "work in progress." I'm still in the process of adding books to my LT library as well, and am not even half-done yet.
Anyway, I'm wondering if I may ask how you were able to post the book images under "I'm currently reading" in the About Me section, above...? Is there a particular code needed for displaying the images?
Thanks!
John
skrevet af SpacemanSpiff kl. 6:13 pm (EST) den Jun 24, 2007
skrevet af randoymwords kl. 11:02 pm (EST) den Jun 2, 2007
I read some of your posts under 'Recommended Site Improvements' and thought you might be able to help. How do you input pre-ISBN books, especially *very* old books which only have the publisher address, no date or other info. For example, the first book I've tried to catalogue with this issue is Andersen's Fairy Tales, but all I know is that it was printed in Great Britain by Blackie and Son. I'm afraid to think how many books I have that also lack info.
Thanks for your help!
miranda
skrevet af MIRV kl. 10:16 pm (EST) den Jun 1, 2007
skrevet af xtien kl. 3:15 am (EST) den May 23, 2007
is your "I'm currently reading" a widget? I have a widget on my website but that one won't work when i enter it in "about me".
X10
skrevet af xtien kl. 8:30 pm (EST) den May 21, 2007
the pic is there again, it wasn't earlier today when I checked. Apparently it has been put back.
Xtine
skrevet af xtien kl. 7:43 pm (EST) den May 20, 2007
We're Livejournal neighbors at that. No more booksales for me until I find a new job, alas. And the Ravenswood Manor massive garage sale is this weekend. sigh.
skrevet af randoymwords kl. 9:43 pm (EST) den May 19, 2007
skrevet af randoymwords kl. 9:10 pm (EST) den May 19, 2007
"Reading your comment, I had what turned out to be a brilliant idea (if I do say so myself). I looked on the French wikipedia site! And, lo and behold, those two titles are listed under ""Arcadi et Boris Strougatski", so it must be a typo (or an error at the source from which someone took the info). I'm off to combine them. Thanks for giving me (however unintentionally) the idea!""
I suspect you wanted to post that to jjlong
I've no idea what combining problem you are talking about. Have fun with it anyway!
skrevet af reading_fox kl. 7:47 am (EST) den May 18, 2007
I guess we could post the question to Combiners, or to an SF group. Hmm.
skrevet af jjlong kl. 6:40 am (EST) den May 18, 2007
I discovered that Janny Wurts had no picture, I went to her website, and left a request.
By the time I got back, the next day, permission had been granted and another forum member had registered on LT and uploaded the photo - crediting copyright as requested - but unaware of the issues involved in permissions... I'll see if I can upload a second copy with a link to the permission.
skrevet af reading_fox kl. 2:58 am (EST) den May 18, 2007
Trusted Wikipedia. :-(
skrevet af DromJohn kl. 6:58 pm (EST) den May 17, 2007
thanks for finishing up Arkady & Boris for me. Ran out of time this morning..
of course, it'll never TRULY be finished, will it?
skrevet af jjlong kl. 4:53 pm (EST) den May 17, 2007
"Hi fox -
wow, I really appreciate your taking the time to post this here - any resource that can help an author be discovered is invaluable.
Yes, you can have a picture - not all the ones shown on my website are able to be posted elsewhere, for copyright issues, but the one with the horse next to the author was taken by my husband, Don Maitz, and may be used with appropriate credit.
"
skrevet af reading_fox kl. 4:53 am (EST) den May 17, 2007
skrevet af EncompassedRunner kl. 9:44 pm (EST) den May 16, 2007
Thanks anyway!
skrevet af mujahid7ia kl. 12:47 pm (EST) den May 14, 2007
Thanks
skrevet af mujahid7ia kl. 12:45 pm (EST) den May 14, 2007
"This author is Alfred Wainwright, almost always identified as A. Wainwright, the British author of walking guidebooks and sketchbooks of Great Britain. If the author of your book is not this person, please re-enter the full name in the author box instead of the surname and first initial only. Then your book will show up on the correct author page. Thank you for your help."
How does that sound?
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skrevet af RicketyCat kl. 7:54 pm (EST) den Mar 12, 2007
Still feeling my way around not sure what all the benefits are just yet, I noticed you are in Chicago I love the Harold Washington Library such a cool place. Bye for now really enjoy this site. Barry
skrevet af Mojoworken kl. 6:52 pm (EST) den Mar 5, 2007
(I've been working on not saying something snappish and envious when I hear about other people's good fortune.. ;)
Welcome back.
skrevet af jjlong kl. 7:59 am (EST) den Feb 22, 2007
Hope you had a great vacation! Being away from computers is a good thing from time to time - but how fun it is to return!!
I'll let you know how the book covers go!
Cate
skrevet af bleuroses kl. 7:31 pm (EST) den Feb 21, 2007