I just had an experience that made me smile.
I was just sitting here at my desk when a high school kid walked by. I’m guessing he had just been to the library about a block away because he had a book in his hand. He wasn’t just carrying it, though, he had his nose pressed [...]
Today’s question is about tags- do you tag? How do you tag? How do you feel about tagging- do you think it would be better to have standardized tags, like libraries have standardized subject headings, or do you like the individualized nature of tagging? What are your top 5 tags and what do they say [...]
Last night, as I was getting ready to go out and run an errand, I asked Brian if he could please feed our cats because I had noticed their food bowl was low (but not empty). He grunted in a noncommittal way that led me to assume that he would do it.
When I got [...]
Here is ANOTHER fun idea I am stealing from Natasha over at Maw Books. For a couple of months now she’s been listing the search terms people used to find her blog. Fyrefly did this recently as well. I’ve been saying I want to do it for awhile, then a search term [...]
Excuse the terrible, terrible, headline, but I’m tired and punchy while writing this post. This is something I found while checking out Heather’s blog: Age 30 - A Year of Books. Basically the site calculates the readability of your blog, determining the requisite level of education for comprehension. I had a great deal [...]
Here it is, the long-awaited 100th post! I wasn’t planning on posting until tomorrow, but I have three posts (including two reviews) just dying to be published, so we’re going to go ahead and do it now.
But first, some stats:
- 52 people entered this contest. Basically everyone left multiple comments, blogged about the contest, or [...]
Post 99!!
Why LT?
Why did you choose to open and maintain an LT account? Do you/did you use other online cataloging/social networking sites, like GoodReads or Shelfari? Do you use more than one? Are they different or do they serve different purposes?
LibraryThing was the first of the social networking booksites I learned of. A good [...]
What is reading, anyway? Novels, comics, graphic novels, manga, e-books, audiobooks — which of these is reading these days? Are they all reading? Only some of them? What are your personal qualifications for something to be “reading” — why? If something isn’t reading, why not? Does it matter? Does it impact your desire to sample [...]
Scenario: You’ve just bought some complicated gadget home . . . do you read the accompanying documentation? Or not?
Do you ever read manuals?
How-to books?
Self-help guides?
Anything at all?
Let me just begin by saying, I’m not very good at instructions. Written instructions occasionally fare better than oral instructions, because I have a tendency not to listen to [...]
So I just had a conversation with Kate from the Literary Ventures Fund. The more I read about them and talk to her, the more I’m really impressed with their organization. They basically work with publishers that are too small to have dedicated marketing people and help them market their books. They do not, however, [...]
