Tuesday Thingers: Banned Books Week – The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 (hosted by The Boston Bibliophile) For this week’s Tuesday Thingers, I’ve copied the list of the most-challenged books of the 1990s straight from the ALA website. I’ve highlighted the ones I’ve read. Bold what you’ve read, and italicize what you have in your LT library. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite I Know Why the Caged […]
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TBIF: Thank blog it’s Friday – the last one in September
Tuesday Thingers (hosted by The Boston Bibliophile) Today’s Question: Favorite Authors. Who do you have named in your LT account as favorite authors? Why did you choose them? How many people share your choices? Can you share a picture of one of them? In most categories, I don’t have just one or two items that I like above all others, and it’s no different with authors. I have 14 authors “favorited” (is that really a […]
TBIF – Thank blog it’s Friday!
Tuesday Thingers (hosted by The Boston Bibliophile) Today’s Question: Have you ever added a quote to the quotation field in common knowledge? What’s a quote you particularly like from a book, one that you know by heart? I haven’t added anything to Common Knowledge. I actually haven’t used Common Knowledge all that much, to be honest, although it was quite helpful in last week’s Thinger about book awards. I have noticed that a lot of […]
TBIF – Thank blog it’s Friday!
Tuesday Thingers (hosted by The Boston Bibliophile) Today’s question: Awards. Do you follow any particular book awards? Do you ever choose books based on awards? What award-winning books do you have? (Off the top of your head only- no need to look this up- it would take all day!) What’s your favorite award-winning book? LibraryThing’s Common Knowledge feature tracks awards; you can find it here. I used to pay a lot more attention to book […]
TBIF – Thank blog it’s Friday! #5
>>> Have you entered the Second Chance at (Summer) Reading Re-Gifting Giveaway? TODAY is your last chance!<<< Tuesday Thingers (hosted by The Boston Bibliophile) Today’s question: Members who have your books. Do you ever look at this feature? Do you use it to make LT friends, or compare notes? There are three tabs- weighted, raw, and recent. “Weighted,” which means “weighted by book obscurity and library size” is probably the least self-explanatory of the three, […]
TBIF – Thank blog it’s Friday #4!
>>> Don’t forget to enter the Second Chance at (Summer) Reading Re-Gifting Giveaway – details are here, and the deadline is Friday, September 5! <<< Tuesday Thingers 8/26 (hosted by The Boston Bibliophile) Today’s topic: LibraryThing authors. Who are your LibraryThing authors? What books of theirs do you have? Do you ever comment on an author’s LT page? Have you received any comments from an author on your LT account? My small, fairly pathetic collection […]
TBIF – Thank blog it’s Friday! #3
Tuesday Thingers (hosted at The Boston Bibliophile) Today’s question: LT and RL (real life)- do you have friends in real life that you met through LibraryThing? Have you attended any LT meet-ups in your area? Would you be open to attending meet-ups or is LT strictly an online thing for you? Interesting question, given that the online/RL intersection has been a bit of a theme around here this week!So far, I haven’t met anyone through […]
TBIF – Thank blog it’s Friday! #3
Tuesday Thingers (hosted at The Boston Bibliophile) Today’s question: Favorite bookstores. What’s your favorite bookstore? Is it an online store or a bricks-and-mortar store? How often do you go book shopping? Is your favorite bookstore (or bookstores) listed as a favorite in LT? Do you attend events at local bookstores? Do you use LT to find events? A similar question was asked in a recent Booking Through Thursday, and I said: (E)ven if Amazon.com disappeared […]
TBIF – Thank blog it’s Friday! #2
Tuesday Thingers (hosted at The Boston Bibliophile) Today’s question is only marginally about LibraryThing but I thought it might be a fun question anyway. It’s more about blogging. Everyone who participates in Tuesday Thingers has a blog- some have a book blog, some have several, some have blogs that are more personal, etc.- and we’ve all chosen to participate in this particular way of networking to build traffic, get to know each other, etc. So […]
TBIF – Thank blog it’s Friday!
Tuesday Thingers (hosted at The Boston Bibliophile) Today’s question: Cataloging sources. What cataloging sources do you use most? Any particular reason? Any idiosyncratic choices, or foreign sources, or sources you like better than others? Are you able to find most things through LT’s almost 700 sources? 700 sources?! Wow. I can’t imagine ever using that many…and since I suspect that many of them are probably from other countries and/or in languages I don’t read, I […]
TBIF – Thank blog it’s Friday!
Tuesday Thingers (hosted by Marie of The Boston Bibliophile) Today’s topic: Recommendations. Do you use LT’s recommendations feature? Have you found any good books by using it? Do you use the anti-recommendations, or the “special sauce” recommendations? How do you find out about books you want to read? I’ve glanced over the Recommendations that pop up on my LibraryThing home page, but really haven’t followed up on any of them. Since they’re based on my […]
Friday Q&A – this time, it’s a classic
Tuesday Thingers 7/15 – Book-swapping (hosted by Marie of The Boston Bibliophile) Today’s topic: Book-swapping. Do you do it? What site(s) do you use? How did you find out about them? What do you think of them? Do you use LT’s book-swapping column feature for information on what to swap? Do you participate in any of the LT communities that discuss bookswapping, like the Bookmooch group for example? Well, I have to say “yes and […]
