LibraryThing makes the Mainstream Media, in Brazil
Special thanks to a reader of the Brazilian newspaper O Globo for forwarding me their blurb. I never managed to find it on the website, but I have the original. After spending about 2 seconds puzzling over it, rusty French and Latin at the ready, I threw it into Google:
One question: At least for me the "instrument" seems to work with "search accents and cedillas" (that part ought to be "the search engine does not accept accents or cedillas," instrumento de busca não aceita acentos nem cedilhas). Am I the only one?
Sunday toast For who has some familiarity with the English, access to the InterNet and thinks about fichar its library. A small farm makes success that receives the heading from a book, searchs it in the Library of the Congress of the United States, captures its fiche and plays it in the archive of the customer. Librarything.com is called and was created by Tim Spalding, an American pc hacker with the feet in the classic culture. It is in the version Beta (with the risks that this means) and leaves favour for who wants to catalogue up to 200 books. For bigger libraries, it charges USS 10 for the limitless use of the instrument. In less of one month, librarything joined four a thousand users who ficharam 177 a thousand books. It gained news article in the "The Guardian" and the forecast of that somebody goes to gain money with this business. If it will not be Spalding, will be another person. The Library of the Congress is a colossus. Its catalogue has 28 book million in 470 languages. For example: 18 headings of Fernando Gabeira. (who to want to sapear, an acknowledgment: the instrument of not accepted search accents nor cedilhas.)This is great, if largely from Brown's Guardian piece. My only fear is that ten Brazilians will try to start their own LibraryThing, looking for that money. (The money ain't happening, people. It's nice not to feel guilty about searching for freelance, but this is not making me rich. Then again, I might be rich if I were in Brazil.)
One question: At least for me the "instrument" seems to work with "search accents and cedillas" (that part ought to be "the search engine does not accept accents or cedillas," instrumento de busca não aceita acentos nem cedilhas). Am I the only one?
posted by Tim at 11:35 AM
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Perhaps they tried it on a bad day? (No clue here.)
Retrieving other images from "established booksellers" etc wouldn't help me... I have hundreds that there simply aren't images of online anywhere. They're either too old, too obscure, too hard to find, or all of the above.
I'm still laughing over the "feet in the classic culture" line... hmmm.
The same blurb was republished in the newspaper Correio do Povo (located in Porto Alegre/RS). The journalist Elio Gaspari is tremendous about politics and academics informations...Really very useful!!!
Ben-Hur Rava
what do you mean "if you were in brazil you'd make money"? i didn't get it...
"the instrument of not accepted search accents nor cedilhas" for me. For example, I have Kobo Abé in my libary but when I search either Abe or Abé, I get zero hits. Same applies to other accented characters in my library, e.g. Dritëro. When I search for poèmes, I do not get my poèmes but someone else's pomes. In other words, it treats accented characters as nul characters. (Using Firefox 1.0.7, XP SP 2, Unicode UTF-8 encoding.)
Have had no trouble at all with diacriticals. 'Tis all working very fine! Congratulations, Tim!
Please bear in mind that someone who has taken the time to type in hundreds of book details and has paid for an account is really unlikely to risk getting kicked off by playing silly tricks with images.
The ability to link to my own cover scans would be a big deal for me.
On being in Brazil. No slight to Brazil intended, but Brazil has a lower average income and cost of life. I, for example, moved from Boston to Portland, ME and immediately felt a good deal richer—the rent is half here what it is in Boston.
On cover images. Yes, one way to do it would be to make cover images a pay feature. Thanks for the idea.
The accents issue is utterly flumoxing. Others with problems or success, send browser details?
I tried searching for "Hergé" within my books in the first search box, with 0 results (though a search for "tintin" will show that I have two books by that author). Likewise "Fueß" and "Bjørkavåg" (both are authors). For tag-search (the second box), I tried "español", which returned plenty of results, as expected.
I'm using Safari 2.0.1 on OSX 10.4.2
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/angharad
May your Library Thing spreads like a bushfire across the whole wide world One of these simple, brilliant ideas got built
Hello folks! I think the author's note wasn't a bad critic, It was just an advice for the people who will came to see how this site works... ;)
about the question of "be or not to be rich", it isn't a question of where do you live, it's about the how much does this INFORMATION will cost... ;)
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