1 million seems likely. If it gets some media attention, that looks conservative. One million sounds like a good thing, but it scares the bejesus out of me...
Can I change the width of the catalog column? How? How do I enter comments, etc. (fields not shown in card) I have paid the 10 $, but I am shown as "private, free" in the profile How do I change my nickname (from Renato to something else)?
Renato. Sorry to write here, but your account is private so I can't drop a comment.
1. At present you can't change the width of the columns. Let me know if you think one of them is a gross error and I'll look into it. 2. I'm not sure why some people don't show up as paid. Shoot me your paypal confirmation number (timspalding@librarything.com) and I'll put you to paid. 3. Shoot me your userid (renato), password and the new userid you want. I can change it manually.
Don't everyone else want to change your user id now, please...
Tim, my account is private, yet my library shows up with this URL http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=sikchi. (I was not logged in when I tried this :)
Hi, I'm not sure if anyone else has asked this question yet, so I beg your indulgence: livejournal does not allow javascript, so I can't get the blog widget to work. Is there any other way to make the widget so I can display it on livejournal pages?
Quick bug report: ISBN 0751307769, imported from Amazon. Edit the book after importing it, and you'll find that everything after the double-quotes in the title has been dropped.
Bug report: On page http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?tag=cookery the numbers in brackets appear to be the number of books that user has in that tag. However, if you click on a number you'll get a different number of books (eg hrabbit (8) shows 14 books)
I'd like to see some ability to do mass tagging; that is, select a bunch of titles (perhaps by date entered, or author, etc.), and apply a new tag to them.
For example, I was so excited to start entering books that I didn't really think through the tags I was using, but last light I figured out I could use a tag to track which shelf a book was on, and it would be great to add that tag to a bunch of books all at once.
I definitely second johnaya's suggestion of mass tagging. I have more MP3s than books (just!) and mass tagging in programs such as ITunes and MusicMatch is a real boon.
A note to anonymous about the cookery tags: Yes, I can see that 14 books show up if you look at cookery, but really only 8 of those are cookery--and I mean just cookery. The other 6 are "japanese cookery" so I think the search is finding anything with cookery in it, but the tag count will count them as two separate tags--which they are. Like most people, I'm pretty focused on getting my books in and then expect to do a lot of editing of records. I'm enjoying putting in my Japanese novels, but unfortunately many of my Japanese books seem to predate ISBNs. Oh well, both my books and I are simply...old!
It would be great to have a way to copy a record on the "Catalog" page. I have many foreign language books that are not in LoC or on Amazon, and I have to enter them manually. It would be great to be able to copy an existing record, retain similar fields, and change just the dissimilar fields.
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I remember a couple of weeks ago when the milestone was ever 10,000 book. Wow! How large is the database going to be at this rate by Christmas!
kaykwilts
1 million seems likely. If it gets some media attention, that looks conservative. One million sounds like a good thing, but it scares the bejesus out of me...
Dear Tim,
Can I change the width of the catalog column? How?
How do I enter comments, etc. (fields not shown in card)
I have paid the 10 $, but I am shown as "private, free" in the profile
How do I change my nickname (from Renato to something else)?
Thanks,
R.
Renato. Sorry to write here, but your account is private so I can't drop a comment.
1. At present you can't change the width of the columns. Let me know if you think one of them is a gross error and I'll look into it.
2. I'm not sure why some people don't show up as paid. Shoot me your paypal confirmation number (timspalding@librarything.com) and I'll put you to paid.
3. Shoot me your userid (renato), password and the new userid you want. I can change it manually.
Don't everyone else want to change your user id now, please...
I told you LT is gonna be very big, and the other fishes will want to buy it. Be ready!
books4life
Tim, my account is private, yet my library shows up with this URL http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=sikchi. (I was not logged in when I tried this :)
Ammending the above...
Actually, what shows up as a result of the URL is an older copy of the catalog with fewer books than the catalog currently has.
(I don't use caching in IE, neither do I maintain a history. Is your server serving up a cached page perhaps?)
Hi, I'm not sure if anyone else has asked this question yet, so I beg your indulgence: livejournal does not allow javascript, so I can't get the blog widget to work. Is there any other way to make the widget so I can display it on livejournal pages?
The number that I've been surprised at is how steady that "new users in the last 24 hours" seems to be.
1 million by Christmas seems conservative even without media attention... apparently word-of-mouth actually works. :)
Hi Tim,
Why is the subject column on my catalogs shows up the message "subjects temporarily unavailable"?
Quick bug report: ISBN 0751307769, imported from Amazon. Edit the book after importing it, and you'll find that everything after the double-quotes in the title has been dropped.
Bug report: On page http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?tag=cookery the numbers in brackets appear to be the number of books that user has in that tag. However, if you click on a number you'll get a different number of books (eg hrabbit (8) shows 14 books)
Feature suggestion:
I'd like to see some ability to do mass tagging; that is, select a bunch of titles (perhaps by date entered, or author, etc.), and apply a new tag to them.
For example, I was so excited to start entering books that I didn't really think through the tags I was using, but last light I figured out I could use a tag to track which shelf a book was on, and it would be great to add that tag to a bunch of books all at once.
I definitely second johnaya's suggestion of mass tagging. I have more MP3s than books (just!) and mass tagging in programs such as ITunes and MusicMatch is a real boon.
A note to anonymous about the cookery tags: Yes, I can see that 14 books show up if you look at cookery, but really only 8 of those are cookery--and I mean just cookery. The other 6 are "japanese cookery" so I think the search is finding anything with cookery in it, but the tag count will count them as two separate tags--which they are. Like most people, I'm pretty focused on getting my books in and then expect to do a lot of editing of records. I'm enjoying putting in my Japanese novels, but unfortunately many of my Japanese books seem to predate ISBNs. Oh well, both my books and I are simply...old!
Sara
I want mass tagging too. Pretty please?
1 million books? Awesome!
It would be great to have a way to copy a record on the "Catalog" page. I have many foreign language books that are not in LoC or on Amazon, and I have to enter them manually. It would be great to be able to copy an existing record, retain similar fields, and change just the dissimilar fields.
I'm seconding the copying records idea - not only do I have a lot of similar books, I have a lot of duplicates of books for one reason or another.
This may be the reason for all the new members - it is how i got here!
This site was mentioned by andrew tobias on his site the other day
see: www.andrewtobias.com
on 09/28
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