Tuesday Thingers: Questions for LibraryThing users, hosted at Wendi’s Book Corner Today’s question: A few weeks ago, someone told me about the Common Knowledge feature of Library Thing. The statistics and basic information can be found through a link at the bottom of any page. Currently there are over 869,540* facts that have been entered. How do they get there? We add them! It took me a while to figure out that you enter them […]
***One of the hazards of pre-scheduling my posts is that I miss things that don’t get advance announcement, and then I have to play catch-up. Yesterday was officially DeLurking Day across the blogiverse! Well, let’s go ahead and observe it here today instead – please come out of hiding and leave a comment, whether you do so regularly, or you rarely (or never) have before!**** ===================================== Welcome to the return of Weekly Geeks! We took […]
Tuesday Thingers: Questions for LibraryThing users, hosted at Wendi’s Book Corner Today’s question: Did you know that there are 1497 authors participating in LibraryThing Authors? If you haven’t checked it out, head over for a moment and see if you can find out something new about an author! If you don’t have time to go snooping, have you ever looked at the LT Author page before? Did you know that it is for authors and […]
I think that this blog made a lot of progress during 2008, but things can always be tweaked, and as I’m coming up on my second blogiversary, participating in the Blog Improvement Project (hosted by Kim at Sophisticated Dorkiness) sounds appealing. The first task in the project, “Setting Goals,” is less appealing, I’m sad to say. It’s not that I don’t have goals, but as an attempting-to-recover control freak, I try not to get too […]
In some ways, this week’s Ten on Tuesday prompt, “10 Things You Want to Do in 2009,” feels like the next step from the New Year’s Resolutions theme a couple of weeks ago. Looking at it that way, the resolutions are a wish list of goals, and this week’s list would include specific steps to achieve them. I’m approaching the “to do” list partly from that perspective, but not completely. If an item does relate […]
Tuesday Thingers: Questions for LibraryThing users, hosted at Wendi’s Book Corner Today’s question: Here is a list of the main areas of Library Thing: 1. Home (http://www.librarything.com/, before you log in) 2. Home (once you log in, contains Your Home, Your Profile, Connections, Recommendations, Reviews, Statistics, Clouds, Gallery, Memes) 3. Profile (Recent activity, tags, comments, members with your books) 4. Your Library 5. Your Tags 6. Add Books 7. Talk 8. Groups 9. Local 10. […]
Tuesday Thingers: questions for LibraryThing users from The Boston Bibliophile This is the finale of Marie‘s Tuesday Thingers. Beginning next week, Thingers will be hosted by Wendi of Wendi’s Book Corner. This week’s question: Holiday gift-giving. Do you give books for the holidays? Did you participate in LT’s SantaThing, either this year or last, or in other blogging gift exchanges? Were you happy with what you received? I can actually answer this question with details, […]
This week’s Ten on Tuesday prompt for “10 New Year’s Resolutions” is one I approach with some ambivalence. As I said when this topic came up last year: I’ve never really been one to make New Year’s resolutions. I don’t think there’s anything magical about January 1. If you want to change something in your life, you can do it any time you decide to – the beginning of next month, the first day of […]
Tuesday Thingers – questions for LibraryThing users from The Boston Bibliophile* Today’s Question: The LT Home Page feature. How are you liking it? Or not? Do you go here when you log into LT or do you use your profile page more? I use my personal home page all the time – I really like how it centralizes things. However, sometimes I don’t get very far down the page, since the feature I use most […]
Tuesday Thingers – questions for LibraryThing users from The Boston Bibliophile Most of us book bloggers like to write book reviews- if we don’t love to write book reviews- but here’s today’s question. When it comes to LT (and your blog), do you review every book you read? Do you just review Early Reviewers or ARCs? Do you review only if you like a book, or only if you feel like you have to? How […]
I recently put my blog through some analysis, having gotten a couple of referrals from Madame Meow of A Daily Dose of Zen Sarcasm! If this MBTI result from TypeAlyzer is to be believed, you would be quite right if, upon meeting me in person, I wasn’t quite what you expected. My blog seems to be expressing some facets of my personality that don’t get out much: ESFP – The Performers The entertaining and friendly […]
My husband and I got into a little debate over this week’s Ten on Tuesday topic, “10 Favorite Holiday Songs.“ HIM: “You know they mean Christmas songs. Who even knows ten songs for Hanukkah?” ME: “Well, there are the popular, secular songs that some people don’t really consider to be about Christmas – they’re about Santa Claus, or winter…and then there are the traditional church songs and carols about Jesus’ birth. They’re two very different […]
