Star Trek fans

I was amused to notice that Star Trek: Mr. Scott's guide to the Enterprise is among our "most commonly shared books" (by two people). I too am a Star Trek fan and have quite a number of ST books, though I believe I don't have Scotty's guide. I haven't yet had a chance to add any books to my librarything account, but it should be interesting to see if that changes the "common" list at all.

Do you think there are any mensans who aren't Star Trek fans? I'm joking, of course, but I would think we will end up sharing a few, though. Looks like I only have 5 books tagged Star Trek. I though I had more than that. I'll have to dig around some more.

Well, I've just started adding my books to "my library" here on librarything. This afternoon I found a Star Trek book (that I don't have yet) at one of our local Goodwill stores, so I started with that one (and a couple of others I found there). I see that adding books could take a while . Maybe I'll start with my ST books, though. That would be useful, since I could then print out the list, after searching on my "tags", which would help me avoid re-buying ones I already have (which has happened, though more often with non-ST books than with ST ones). :-)

It can be really slow going, Meridiani. I used a scanner for quite a few of mine. It made it go a lot quicker. Here's the link for the one LT sells:

http://www.librarything.com/cuecat.php

That's not the one I use, though. Someone was kind enough to send me a wireless one. Most of the books that I haven't entered yet will have to be done manually. (Which is why I haven't done them yet.)

Oh, thanks. I hadn't clicked on the "tools" tab yet -- still learning this librarything . I'm not sure if the scanner would speed things up for me, since I seem to spend most of my time thinking about what tags I should use. A wireless scanner would certainly be more useful. The other problem is that my garage is my "bricks and mortar" library (ha ha -- really it's straw and stucco!), so it's away from my computer. Plus, how will I keep track of which ones I've entered?!? Do you know if librarything tells you if you're re-entering a particular book?

Since this is the Star Trek thread, let me say something about ST books... I've read maybe 10 or 15 ST books -- the quality is rather variable, IMO. Recently I bought Voyages of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion, which is a compilation, with a little commentary, of all the ST fiction books through sometime in late 2006. I'm hoping it will be useful. So far, at least, it's convinced me I don't need to hunt down the "Star Trek log" books. :-)

Do you know if librarything tells you if you're re-entering a particular book?

Yes - it'll state "Duplicate ISBN in your library" as you enter it the second time.

Thx for the info, Bob.

If you have more than one edition of a book, you probably won't get a mesage on duplicate ISBN. If you have more than one copy of the same book, same edition, presumably you could put a comment or a tag. I've decided to put quotes around tags that tell you something of the status of the book: like "2nd vol only". Then when you go to your tag listing by alphabet, they pop up to the beginning. I am trying to give two tags to every book.
-- BobCampbell

Thanks, Bob. Good idea on putting in tags on the status of a book. There are some books that I have multiple copies of, in order to be able to lend out copies while maintaining a copy that I can refer to. On the other hand, there are "accidental" duplicates that happen when I want to read a book ... but haven't yet ... and end up buying another copy, because I forget I have a copy I haven't read yet .

In fact, today I was out in the garage (which is our library), looking for a book that has a bunch of mudras in it (IIRC), which I didn't find but I did discover duplicate copies of a different book -- I think it was "Awakening to Zen" by Philip Kapleau (IIRC).