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Om mig I 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.

Om mit bibliotek I 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.)

Someday when I get around to doing the cataloguing, it will include all the piles and shelves of books I own.

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Medlem sidenNov 3, 2006

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Thanks for catching the error and taking the time to alert me!

skrevet af Jambyfool kl. 5:56 am (EST) den Jul 5, 2008

Thanks so much for pointing out the error in the Rituals of Dinner entry! Have amended it. Good work!

Sue aka thewordygecko

skrevet af thewordygecko kl. 9:31 pm (EST) den Jun 29, 2008

Thanks for giving me the correct author information on Mighty Minutes!! You rock!

skrevet af mshue kl. 5:26 pm (EST) den Jun 29, 2008

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!

skrevet af twacorbies kl. 4:18 pm (EST) den Jun 29, 2008

Thanks much for your comments regarding "The rituals of dinner".

skrevet af ML2 kl. 3:59 pm (EST) den Jun 29, 2008

thank you very much (re: Visser)

skrevet af suchstuff kl. 11:09 pm (EST) den Jun 28, 2008

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.

skrevet af anglemark kl. 3:25 am (EST) den May 17, 2008

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

skrevet af ezappas kl. 7:47 pm (EST) den May 9, 2008

Thanks, shmjay. I've removed the bk3 from Final Notice. --clarkwright

skrevet af clarkwright kl. 9:27 pm (EST) den Apr 6, 2008

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 ...

skrevet af Noisy kl. 6:00 pm (EST) den Mar 30, 2008

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.

skrevet af bezzalina kl. 8:34 am (EST) den Mar 23, 2008

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.

skrevet af isamama kl. 1:14 am (EST) den Mar 23, 2008

Thanks for the heads up. Spark Notes author changed accordingly.

skrevet af reverends kl. 6:20 pm (EST) den Mar 20, 2008

Amazing Times amended as requested.

skrevet af caldara kl. 10:29 am (EST) den Mar 20, 2008

Thanks for identifying the erroneous Amazon entry on E. A. Wallis Budge.

Bill

skrevet af bejart7092 kl. 11:09 pm (EST) den Mar 19, 2008

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.

skrevet af kokipy kl. 8:24 pm (EST) den Mar 17, 2008

Thank you for pointing out the wrong-author entry on my Sparks notes book.

skrevet af cnrenner kl. 2:53 pm (EST) den Mar 16, 2008

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.

skrevet af devenish kl. 9:49 am (EST) den Mar 13, 2008

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

skrevet af mmckay kl. 9:42 pm (EST) den Mar 11, 2008

Thanks for the information.
Cleda

skrevet af Cleda kl. 8:28 pm (EST) den Mar 10, 2008

Thanks for the heads up in the book World War II, not by Budge. I've fixed that in my library.

skrevet af ddlibrary kl. 1:06 am (EST) den Mar 10, 2008

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.

skrevet af Tonysbooks kl. 4:44 am (EST) den Feb 26, 2008

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.

skrevet af 4hounds kl. 11:53 pm (EST) den Feb 24, 2008

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.

skrevet af cc1158 kl. 2:24 am (EST) den Feb 24, 2008

I changed "Grobte" changed to "Größte". Thanks for noticing.

skrevet af benjfrank kl. 10:18 am (EST) den Feb 19, 2008

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".

skrevet af jimroberts kl. 6:27 am (EST) den Jan 29, 2008

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

skrevet af pdougl kl. 8:26 pm (EST) den Jan 28, 2008

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!

skrevet af alvilda kl. 7:28 am (EST) den Dec 26, 2007

Yes, I saw that they had been uncombined. I guess we know which side we each fall on in the lumper/splitter debate! ;)

skrevet af timepiece kl. 6:24 pm (EST) den Sep 26, 2007

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.

skrevet af randomarbitrary kl. 4:12 pm (EST) den Aug 26, 2007

Thanks for that - Amazon UK had the title spelt wrong, and I hadn't checked it against the actual book.

skrevet af cynick kl. 7:37 pm (EST) den Aug 15, 2007

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

skrevet af tpgames kl. 1:46 am (EST) den Aug 14, 2007

Thanks for catching that. I do most of my lists by name so that could have eventually been a problem for me.

skrevet af lawn2000 kl. 8:52 pm (EST) den Aug 10, 2007

I added the author for Terror Castle -- thank you! -- Amy

skrevet af amysisson kl. 6:00 pm (EST) den Aug 4, 2007

Aha! "edit book" is that pencil icon
at the right of each line on the search results page. Thanks.

skrevet af bertilak kl. 1:41 pm (EST) den Jul 25, 2007

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

skrevet af Dannelke kl. 8:59 pm (EST) den Jul 23, 2007

>So, could you please edit your copy...

sure thing

skrevet af AsYouKnow_Bob kl. 8:15 pm (EST) den Jul 23, 2007

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll fix it.

skrevet af tarpfarmer kl. 8:08 pm (EST) den Jul 23, 2007

fixed Steve Golden to Goldin. Thanks for the note.

skrevet af EowynA kl. 6:55 pm (EST) den Jul 16, 2007

The significance of bosco is that it is the nickname of one of my favourite characters from my favourite show, Third Watch.

skrevet af jaynebosco kl. 7:07 pm (EST) den Jul 14, 2007

Thanks for letter me know about the mis-volume-numbering of Asimov's Understanding Physics.

skrevet af DMitchell kl. 7:39 pm (EST) den Jul 1, 2007

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.

skrevet af Qtheallpowerful kl. 1:09 pm (EST) den Jun 18, 2007

Ok, j'ai changé pour une autre version. C'est bien Bruce Sterling qui a écrit Mozart en verres miroirs.

skrevet af JackosSub kl. 2:29 pm (EST) den Jun 17, 2007

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.

skrevet af michtelassn kl. 5:09 pm (EST) den Jun 10, 2007

Descent author fixed. Thank you for being even more anal than I am.

skrevet af stiber kl. 10:21 pm (EST) den May 20, 2007

Thanks, I've fixed it [Descent, by Diane Carey].

skrevet af paperkingdoms kl. 8:13 pm (EST) den May 20, 2007

my edition of Asimov's Foundation is a trilogy of the entire series :)

skrevet af sylver kl. 1:32 pm (EST) den May 19, 2007

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?

skrevet af sm5por kl. 6:09 pm (EST) den May 17, 2007

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

skrevet af rotwang kl. 2:27 pm (EST) den May 15, 2007

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 ?

skrevet af adulau kl. 1:51 am (EST) den May 14, 2007

Thanks for pointing out my mistake. I have now corrected it

skrevet af topdrawer kl. 9:20 am (EST) den May 13, 2007

Thanks for catching "Hrolf Kranki" - the whiny viking!

skrevet af rtttt01 kl. 11:21 am (EST) den May 8, 2007

Sullivan corrected.

skrevet af sj_shapiro kl. 9:39 am (EST) den Apr 30, 2007

Thanks! I just picked from the entries offered and didn't notice the spelling.

skrevet af AnjilaG kl. 3:26 am (EST) den Apr 29, 2007

Treaty's Law author order changed as requested.

skrevet af kiarere kl. 6:08 am (EST) den Apr 17, 2007

Friesner corrected, thanks.

skrevet af kiarere kl. 5:56 am (EST) den Apr 17, 2007

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

skrevet af alvilda kl. 9:28 am (EST) den Apr 3, 2007

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.

skrevet af CarlGreatbatch kl. 5:40 pm (EST) den Mar 21, 2007

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.

skrevet af marag kl. 4:31 pm (EST) den Mar 11, 2007

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

skrevet af Ductor kl. 4:33 pm (EST) den Mar 10, 2007

Driekantige wiel author - thanks, edited!

skrevet af SilverCircle kl. 3:59 am (EST) den Mar 9, 2007

Thanks -- I've edited the author name.

skrevet af meowpossum kl. 3:09 pm (EST) den Mar 8, 2007

Thanks for catching that! I'll change it right away.

skrevet af mustangal kl. 1:02 pm (EST) den Mar 8, 2007

Craig Brown corrected to Robert Craig Brown

skrevet af drtrix kl. 10:40 pm (EST) den Mar 4, 2007

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

skrevet af devenish kl. 2:55 am (EST) den Mar 3, 2007

I changed the author entry on the Boswell Journal. Thanks for catching that.

skrevet af mitchellray kl. 8:21 pm (EST) den Mar 1, 2007

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.

skrevet af jss1113 kl. 3:23 pm (EST) den Mar 1, 2007

allo, i will edit the "Craig Brown" entry. Thanks.

skrevet af LaGalipote kl. 6:30 am (EST) den Feb 28, 2007

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.

skrevet af sciezka kl. 11:58 pm (EST) den Feb 25, 2007

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

skrevet af turtle kl. 11:49 pm (EST) den Feb 24, 2007

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Have now made the appropriate change.

skrevet af breeks kl. 12:23 pm (EST) den Feb 24, 2007

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.

skrevet af seide kl. 11:03 am (EST) den Feb 22, 2007

will do, thanks for letting me know

skrevet af Vagabondbookman kl. 10:01 pm (EST) den Feb 21, 2007

OK.

skrevet af billfl kl. 11:41 pm (EST) den Feb 20, 2007

Will make the change. I enter via ISBN, so that's where the error is creeping.

skrevet af elwood_mom kl. 12:16 pm (EST) den Feb 19, 2007

I will make that change. Thanks

bhowell

skrevet af bhowell kl. 1:46 am (EST) den Feb 19, 2007

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.

skrevet af bcquinnsmom kl. 4:04 pm (EST) den Feb 18, 2007

(Re: Histoire générale du Canada)
Done! Cheers.

skrevet af anik kl. 2:30 pm (EST) den Feb 17, 2007

Turns out I didn't have any author listed. I changed it to Robert Craig Brown as requested.

skrevet af Lesliel kl. 12:50 pm (EST) den Feb 17, 2007

I edited Illustrated History of Canada as you requested.

skrevet af gekk kl. 12:32 am (EST) den Feb 17, 2007

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.

skrevet af BrotherJerome kl. 5:34 am (EST) den Feb 16, 2007

I've edited my listing.

skrevet af cycoduck kl. 8:20 pm (EST) den Feb 15, 2007

Thanks for letting me know. I changed in right away on 2/14/07.

skrevet af readingrebecca kl. 4:35 pm (EST) den Feb 15, 2007

done, thanks

skrevet af cameronka kl. 12:14 pm (EST) den Feb 15, 2007

Thanks for the heads-up, it's been duly changed.

skrevet af Valhallas kl. 12:06 am (EST) den Feb 15, 2007

Correction made as requested. Details were originally added straight from Amazon.

skrevet af Superowl kl. 7:42 am (EST) den Feb 12, 2007

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

skrevet af MichaelS kl. 6:16 am (EST) den Feb 9, 2007

Sure. That is one of my spousal unit's, I will have a look at it.

skrevet af bluetyson kl. 7:32 pm (EST) den Feb 8, 2007

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.

skrevet af Dannelke kl. 2:06 pm (EST) den Dec 31, 2006

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

skrevet af pegasus3 kl. 9:46 pm (EST) den Dec 3, 2006

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