March book pile contest(s)
Well, it's hard to imagine that spring is close (at least here in Boston, where it's ranged from almost 60 to under 10 degrees in the past week alone), but I think it's time for our next book pile contest. We're particularly fond of March here at LibraryThing—all three of us have March birthdays!
This is another combined contest. March is Women's History Month, and I'd love to see celebratory book piles!* Gather your women's history books, books by your favorite female historians, throw in Jane Addams or Simone De Beauvoir for good measure, and pile away.
We'd also like to see your spring related piles—I can't wait for spring to come in full force, so give me gardens and ducks and mud. And books, of course. (But not muddy books, please.)
The rules: Post your photos to Flickr. Tag them "LibraryThingMarch". If your submission doesn't show up on the global tag page here, (Flickr sometimes waits to post photos from new accounts), post your URL in the comments here.
The deadline: Saturday March 31st at noon, EST.
The prizes: One winner will receive a $50 gift certificate to Abebooks (sponsored by a recent user donation - thanks!). Two runners-up will get an yearly gift membership to LibraryThing.
Our last contest winner (from the 10 million books/valentines/presidents bonanza), madinkbeard is currently waiting for the mail to bring their prize—a slightly over one hundred dollar copy of Cy Twombly: A Monograph from Abebooks.**
Looking for inspiration? Check out past winners in our book pile archive.
Update: Since March is also Small Press Month, we're including that in this contest too. Book pile away!
*And today is International Women's Day! The LOC has a great page linking to some of their women's history collections—I love their women and war collection (though I wish there was more from WWI, since that's my pet research area).
**Apparently other potential expensive book choices included Krazy & Ignatz: The Complete Sunday Strips and Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays, but the art monograph won out.
This is another combined contest. March is Women's History Month, and I'd love to see celebratory book piles!* Gather your women's history books, books by your favorite female historians, throw in Jane Addams or Simone De Beauvoir for good measure, and pile away.
We'd also like to see your spring related piles—I can't wait for spring to come in full force, so give me gardens and ducks and mud. And books, of course. (But not muddy books, please.)
The rules: Post your photos to Flickr. Tag them "LibraryThingMarch". If your submission doesn't show up on the global tag page here, (Flickr sometimes waits to post photos from new accounts), post your URL in the comments here.
The deadline: Saturday March 31st at noon, EST.
The prizes: One winner will receive a $50 gift certificate to Abebooks (sponsored by a recent user donation - thanks!). Two runners-up will get an yearly gift membership to LibraryThing.
Our last contest winner (from the 10 million books/valentines/presidents bonanza), madinkbeard is currently waiting for the mail to bring their prize—a slightly over one hundred dollar copy of Cy Twombly: A Monograph from Abebooks.**
Looking for inspiration? Check out past winners in our book pile archive.
Update: Since March is also Small Press Month, we're including that in this contest too. Book pile away!
*And today is International Women's Day! The LOC has a great page linking to some of their women's history collections—I love their women and war collection (though I wish there was more from WWI, since that's my pet research area).
**Apparently other potential expensive book choices included Krazy & Ignatz: The Complete Sunday Strips and Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays, but the art monograph won out.
posted by Abby at 4:44 PM
20 Comments:
March is Small Press Month, too.
The March book pile contest has finally inspired me to get my camera out and sign up for a Flickr account. I think I have done what I'm supposed to in uploading the photos, leaving them public and adding the LibraryThingMarch tag but I cannot find them when I search for the tag on 'everyone's' photos (though can if I search just mine!) Should I be doing anything different, or is this just a 'feature' of Flickr? (my name there is fancettuk).
Weird, because I can't find you on there at all! I did a search on the tag, and on your screen name, and nothing came up! (You didn't accidentally make them "friends only", did you?)
Thanks lilithcat for checking whether my photos could be found. I checked that they weren't 'friends only', but eventually on searching through the Flickr FAQ have found the probable answer as follows:
"Why don't all the photos with a specific tag show up?
When you sign up for Flickr, your new account is marked as "pending," until Flickr administrators review it to make sure you aren't posting offensive images or junk downloaded from the Web. When your account is pending, your photos won't show up in public photo lists, like Everyone's Photos, or pages that show all photos tagged with a specific tag..."
So I guess I just need to be patient and sooner or later my screen name and photos will appear.
My bookpile isn't showing up either. My last entries for the Feb. pile contest worked without problem. Does it take a while for the post to show up? (post name is bookfreak66)
What should I do?
If your bookpile isn't showing up on the public tag page yet, then just post your URL in the comments here.
Following your blog entry, one book in my bookpile will be "A Woman & the War" by the Countess of Warwick, published in 1916.
Posting my bookpile here.
http://flickr.com/photos/14004520@N00/416805310/
Hopefully, my photos are slow to show up because I'm a new Flickr member (I see Denise's is there now), but just in case they don't the urls are:
http://flickr.com/photos/7259679@N05/416381892/
http://flickr.com/photos/7259679@N05/416319080/
http://flickr.com/photos/7259679@N05/416396735/
In case my photo isn't showing up yet:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7312507@N03/419548616/
I was inspired by the Spring theme to try my hand at the bookpile contest. My bookpile is on spring and gardening.
Since I'm a new user on Flickr, my photos are still "quarantined", so here is the address for my photo:
http://flickr.com/photos/7319662@N06/425531300/
Nice!
My book piles are not showing up on Flickr, so I am posting them here:
http://flickr.com/photos/7283113@N02/428221876/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7283113@N02/428221885/
Excellent.
vonlafin
While investigating why my photos were not showing up (see early comments from anonymous and fancett) I think I read somewhere that you had to have five or more photos loaded in Flickr before they look at your photos and decide whether they are OK to add to the public search pages and then wait about 10 working days while they do it.
With several of us coming out of the woodwork with 'spring' and posting one or two pictures to Flickr for the first time it might be worth LT adding a note for new Flickr users on future bookpile contests.
Thanks Karin, I read that to. I think that flickr might consider making an exception for librarything book pile entry's. Just a thought.
I had a lot of fun with this!
Here is my flickr link.
( http://www.flickr.com/photos/81767923@N00/438964090/ )
Bookpile goodness for Women's History Month (with Flickr taking it's time, of course!):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7595629@N04/440724415/
Small Press entry for leennnadine
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7589160@N02/441196692/
Embellished with a bit of Lisa Snellings Clark art including Neil Gaiman and Harlan Ellison rats.
Ah, well. It seems I missed the deadline (didn't see that it said noon, sorry!)... I've uploaded my pile anyway:
The Main Event
Closeup #1
Closeup #2
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