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Nominate some fun or interesting topics

1timspalding
okt 21, 2020, 9:07 pm

Does anyone want to nominate some fun or interesting topics for the LibraryThing newsletter? Promote something that's gotten some traction, but needs more? I'm writing it up tonight.

2elenchus
Redigeret: okt 21, 2020, 10:21 pm

Guessing this was your intention all along, but your thread on different Helper Groups is a topic worthy of a survey article.

You might also review some bugs recently ... solved? Exterminated? Uncoded? (Seems like there's a specific term there but I'm not coming up with it.)

3lilithcat
okt 21, 2020, 10:29 pm

>2 elenchus:

Squashed?

4elenchus
okt 21, 2020, 10:32 pm

>3 lilithcat:

That's better than all that I came up with!

5bergs47
okt 22, 2020, 6:16 am

How about a country breakdown and how they compare to their population. Table can be stated in many ways but the % will be most interesting.. or we could have a competition to see if we can guess and then see who wins

6MrAndrew
okt 22, 2020, 8:21 am

>2 elenchus: Defenestrated? Debugged? Terminated with extreme prejudice? Eliminated? Removed? Flapped out the window on a teatowel? Erased? Cleaned? Rubbed out? Hmm the last may have an unfortunate alternate meaning nowadays.

7lorax
okt 22, 2020, 9:58 am

I'm really tempted to suggest some pet RSIs here as things that "need more traction", but I don't think "you really need to fix the author nationality graph" is the sort of thing Tim wants to highlight.

8aspirit
Redigeret: okt 24, 2020, 2:01 am

Suggestion: The story of the ghostly works-- ooo-oOo-- hiding in public catalogues, unable to combine with older entries, unfindable from sitewide searches, but growing bigger and bigger! Until...?!

Okay, seriously, a topic I imagine would be considered as a newsletter topic is the 400-year anniversary of the founding of Plymouth Colony, a place frequently referenced in discussion of November's Thanksgiving holiday. (The founding was in December.)

Members who aren't from the USA, UK, or the Netherlands might not care at all, but I would be interested in a mention of books about about the Wampanoag, the Pilgrims and other passengers of the Mayflower, the Mayflower Compact, etc.

Likely, more than a few LT members who live far beyond Massachusetts are descendants from the original colony's residents.

edited to fix a typo+

9gabriel
okt 22, 2020, 1:06 pm

What information is LT creating that isn't available elsewhere, or is better than what's available elsewhere?

I'm sure you've written about this before, but maybe an overview is in order.

10ScarletBea
okt 23, 2020, 7:20 am

That big "and—HEY!—you should vote!" right in the first paragraph it's pointless for so many LT members ;)

Further down the newsletter it mentions eligibility and relevance, but not at first...

11timspalding
okt 24, 2020, 1:28 am

>10 ScarletBea:

Vote for something else! :)

12Aquila
okt 24, 2020, 1:59 am

But our election finished a week ago! So over being told to vote every time I open anything.

13Opteryx
Redigeret: okt 24, 2020, 7:54 pm

Someone suggested in a site redesign thread that you might want to mention the Strand Books situation next time you send something out: https://www.librarything.com/topic/325602#7297040

14lilithcat
okt 26, 2020, 8:55 am

>13 Opteryx:

I would suggest that, if the Strand Books situation is mentioned, then any and all independent bookstores similarly situated should be mentioned. Strand isn't the only one having financial issues.

Example: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-seminary-coop-covid19-relief

https://www.greenapplebooks.com/support-green-apple-donate

15lorax
Redigeret: okt 26, 2020, 10:49 am

I love independent bookstores. Like lilithcat, I'm a little annoyed at the "NYC is the only place that matters" mentality that expects us to support a bookstore most of us will maybe visit once or twice in our lives, if that, rather than the local ones that when things get back to normal I could visit every month.

Opteryx, you can support your local independent, and I'll support mine, without clamoring that of course LT should offer free advertising to yours. Times are hard everywhere.

(Edited to add: I'm a bit peeved here because this is the second place this has been hammered on.)

16Opteryx
Redigeret: okt 27, 2020, 3:31 am

>14 lilithcat: Good point about broadening the message. And to be clear, I have no interest in that particular bookstore myself. I had just seen that posted randomly in a thread about the site redesign developments (the topic I'd been trying to read up on), and thought it was more relevant for this thread. Certainly not looking for any trouble. I guess I shouldn't have brought it up, sorry.