So, what are we learning about each other?

I'm learning that I want to dig around Sharpie66's library, because anyone who loves Bloom County too has to have other cool stuff.

Hee!

Those are all ones I got back in the '80s--in college, Bloom County was Teh Cool.

Looking at my own list, I'm sad that I don't have more "literature," just the stuff that survived from college (I lost a batch a few years after college when my mom's subpump failed to work and we ended up with six inches in the basement, ruining most of my heavier boxes of books (the lighter ones were stacked higher up). I was able to replace my Riverside Shakespeare, but still haven't gotten another Complete Works of Chaucer--something to add to my Amazon list!

I'm kind of surprised there's not more overlap. I imagine that'll change as everyone's lists get closer to complete.

I've added a wishlist tag so I can make notes of things I stumble across that I didn't know about. We ought to put in a topic on "How I lost my library" so we can mourn our lost books.

So far, all I've added is the box and piles of books around my apartment that don't fit on shelves. So, mostly paperback mysteries and romances -- things that I read and then just let fall wherever. Haven't gotten to most of my more-treasured books yet. Though it does look like, so far, I'm the only one who owns Jackie Cooper's autobiography -- not sure why; I would have thought that at least a few more people would have that one. It's a pretty interesting behind-the-scenes of 30s Hollywood.

I combined that for you, Larisa!

You can click on the author's name to see what's listed. If there are uncombined identical copies, you can combine them yourself.

For (much) more info on combining, do look in the Combiners group... there's always new stuff, and the EVER controversial stuff. :)

I haven't figured out combining yet. Fortunately I don't have a need to, yet.

Combining is FUN!

(speaking as an addict...)

The basics of combining:

1. Join LT
2. Add a few books
3. Wander away for a while, distracted by shiny object
4. Repeat steps 2 & 3
5. Upon return, sort library by Copies.
6. Say to self, "surely I'm not the only person here with the Annotated Hobbit!"
7. Discover that there are in fact 10 slightly different records for the Annotated Hobbit (anotated hobbit, annotated hobit, yadda yadda)
8. Sometime after 4:00 the next morning, come up for air only to realize that you've been sacrificing both sleep and work for the sake of confirming whether the Polish title that you're pretty sure is a translation of Hard Times really is.
9. ...
10. Profit!

*applause*

ExACTLY!

I ended up combining authors. For an author I'm the only one owning. Detail demanded that I enter her as both Denese Shervington MD and Denese O. Shervington MD because that's how she's listed on the books I have. And then combine her.

I think I'd make an appalling librarian, because nothing truly useful would ever get done. Excuse me while I go correct the capitalisation on the books in my library where the titles already existed in the system.

Are you kidding? It's ALLLLL useful! :)

I combine titles with all kinds of capitalisations (assuming the titles are otherwise obviously the same, natch). People enter from many different sources so as far as caps go, there's a zillion variants.

Is there a way to show which books this group shares the most?

I've been checking through and so far in the small sample I've taken it seems to be Pride and Prejudice, Tales of the Slayer and Ill Wind that people share with me.

Nevermind -- I found the page that showed the list of top shared books. Cool.

Berke Breathed rules my Author cloud!

With only 261 in at this point, I'm surprised I'm not overlapping the group list more. That might change as I get to the main body of my books.

Still -- the winner of my author cloud so far? Diana Wynne Jones.