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Okay, admit it, how many books do you own?

bakari — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:02:55 GMT

:) (blushing) I don't think I can be the first one. I'm way too embarrassed.

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Finally...People who understand!!

SunnyRose — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:41:48 GMT

I just joined the tribe a couple of weeks ago, and stumbled upon this tribe tonite.... and dammit, I AM SO HAPPY!! Other people, willing to call themselves bibliophiles (something I only admitted after my fiancee called me one, after discovering bookmooch.com). I just felt that I needed to share my glee, in finding people with as many books as I do, and who have more than likely read them all *at least* once. I'll be checking out this board often!
Namaste-
Sunny

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Your favorite novel about a novelist....

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:29:59 GMT

The topic just came to me but I'm at a loss to answer my own question. For now, I'd say Nabokov's "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight." I reserve the right to change my answer after giving it more thought. :o)

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Found any interesting bookmarks?

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:33:15 GMT

As a book collector, okay, hoarder, I find some strange and bizarre bookmarks. My favorite was a laminated lock of baby hair. My most disgusting discovery? I'm not telling unless you ask!

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Voting opens for world's oddest book title

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:25:47 GMT

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Voting opens for world's oddest book title 2008 Fri Feb 22, 4:50 AM ET

British industry magazine The Bookseller has announced this year's shortlist for the oddest book title of the year, with a typical mix of the quirky and eclectic.

Visitors to the magazine's website, www.thebookseller.com, can make their choice from six mostly non-fiction titles unearthed by publishers, bookstore workers and librarians from around the world.

The winner will be announced on March 28.

The nominees for The Diagram Prize are:

-- "I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen" by Jasper McCutcheon;

-- "How to Write a How to Write Book" by Brian Paddock;

-- "Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues" by Catharine A. MacKinnon;

-- "Cheese Problems Solved" by P.L.H McSweeney;

-- "If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs" by Big Boom;

-- "People who Mattered in Southend and Beyond: From King Canute to Doctor Feelgood" by Dee Gordon.

Horace Bent, The Bookseller's diarist, said on the magazine's website: "I confess: I have been anxious that as publishing becomes ever more corporate, the trade's quirky charms are being squeezed out.

"Lists are pruned, targets are set, authors are culled. But happily my fears have been proved unfounded: oddity lives on."

Last year's winner was "The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification", by Julian Montague.

The Diagram Prize has been running since 1978, when the winner was "Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice".

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Conclave Journal Seeking submissions

Valya — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:31:58 GMT

Any of you bibliophiles like to write? We're especially looking for some strong nonfiction!

Conclave: A Journal of Character is accepting submissions for its inaugural issue, Fall 2008.
We will accept submissions from April 1-July 1, 2008.
www.conclavejournal.com

Conclave is an annual print journal that focuses on character-driven writing in short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and prose poems; we also print black and white photographs, and excerpts from plays: monologues, scenes, single acts, or one-act plays.

Conclave seeks writing that centers around well-crafted characters—complex and authentic: like Leopold Bloom, Huckleberry Finn, Anna Karenina, Hamlet, Miss Havisham, Hannibal Lecter, Hester Prynne, and others. Whether you love them or hate them, these characters are unforgettable and infuse their stories with life beyond the page. Those are the kinds of enduring characters we'd like to have populate the artfully crafted stories in Conclave.

For more information, see submission guidelines on our Web site.

Thank you.

Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Editor

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Reading Marathons ?

Bloke72 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:25:08 GMT

I had a wonderful day on the weekend. A bit sick so I took myself to couch & then bed and read about 7 hours..

Not a record.. but still a good effort.. I finished the end of one book and also completed my first Jodi Lynn Picoult - "My Sisters Keep" - which I liked.. I had soggy eyes a few times.. Details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sister's_Keeper

When you have the opportunity and a good book.. how long can or do you read for ?

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our first book launched

terena — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:20:43 GMT

Hi all. I love books so much I publish them! The first book from my press, Medusa's Muse, is called Traveling Blind;Life Lessons from Unlikely Teachers, by Laura Fogg. Available now from Amazon and Powells.

Sorry for the spam, folks. I'm just super excited about the project and had to share! Okay, go back to reading.

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A escrava Isaura.

christine — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:03:23 GMT

Where can I find an english version of A escrava Isaura by Bernardo Guimares.

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The way to Christ is simple

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:06:16 GMT

God's Blessings often benefit all people. But many of His promises are only for His own children. If you're not sure that you're a part of God's family, He offers you this invitation. The way to Christ is simple:

1. Admit that you have a need.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Romans 3:23

2. Believe that Jesus is God, the Son, who paid the wages of your sin.

For the wages of sin is death [eternal separation from God]; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:23

3. Call upon God.

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Romans 10:9

King James Version

The Holy Bible

ISBN 978-1-58660-198-0

Barbour Publishing

www.barbourbooks.com

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Which book(s) would you burn?

timbo — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:14:32 GMT

Hi,

I hate to bring this up as I personally like books way too much for my own good but...

...would you ever burn a book? Is there a particular book or books that would be high on your list, even if you wouldn't actually burn one? Here's my story...

I took three books to BRC 2001 and burned them on the night of The Man. I did it to see what it felt like. I was sick for a bit during and after. One or two folks tried to stop me--nobody tried to help me. I don't remember which particular books they were but they were all poorly written, contained offensive material (to me at least), and had no discernable value to anyone who I had offered the books to over the past several years.

Not knowing how to burn a book, I made the mistake that most first timers do. I threw the whole book on the flames of The Man. This didn't work. So, I tore the covers off the other two, ripped their bindings away and threw sections of the remaining two books into the flames as The Man continued his fiery release. Some of the pages whirled into the night sky and I worried that they would become litter somewhere out in the surrounding desert. Later, I took some comfort that maybe some of these pages had ended up lining some of the local mice, hawk, and vinagroon homesteads...

Timbo

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Non-fiction anyone?

waterworld — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:36:48 GMT

Does anyone crave nonfiction?

I like philosophy, psychology, anthropology, ethnology, research, professional journnals, cosmology, theory, biography, neuroscience an so on...

anyone else here of a similar mind?

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What is your heaviest book?

Morgan — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:03:07 GMT

I think it is fair to say most of us have a lot of books. I know it is fair to say no one likes moving with them. When I moved all my books from my mom's attic to my house (about half my collection), I could not walk for two days after.
But, which books take the prize for the worst to move? My heaviest is Larousse Gastronomique. If I didn't know better, I would say it was made of lead. So, what other weighty tomes (ha ha) are out there? And, why do the best books break your back?

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Iris the Enchanter

Akasha — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:08:02 GMT

I've read and really enjoyed Iris Murdoch's novels for some years now. I've just picked up her novel The Flight From The Enchanter (thank you to Spartacus books, Vancouver's great cool activist bookstore!). Anyone else lovin' Iris out there in the wilderness?

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For Halloween: "Capote in Kansas: A Ghost Story"

Kim — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:34:53 GMT

Was Boo Radley a real person?

Why didn't Harper Lee ever write another book, after TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD?

What did she see in Kansas, when she was with Truman Capote writing IN COLD BLOOD, that changed her life forever?

Did the ghosts of the murdered Clutters ever visit the very people who brought them back to life?

What made Truman Capote pick up the phone, in the final year of his life, and make one last call to his childhood best friend, now his almost bitter enemy? What does he say that sends her to a cemetery in the middle of the night -- where her family -- and their childhood secrets --are buried?

If those questions intrigue you, then you'll want to read the new novel by Kim Powers, CAPOTE IN KANSAS: A GHOST STORY. It's a sort of "fantasia" about two of our greatest and most mysterious writers, and the inescapable memories that bind them together. But more than just a book about Capote and Lee, it's about all our childhoods: when you played barefoot outside, late into the night, or pretended there was a haunted house in the neighborhood, and didn't understand the grown-up world of adults and death -- or understood it all too well.

Entertainment Weekly says: "Powers astutely summons the intense sorrow behind a life-long friendship gone awry."

Publishers Weekly calls it "welcome", "offbeat" and intriguing."

The Advocate calls it "dark and captivating."

Pulitzer Prize winner Oscar Hijuelos writes: “I thought I knew the story of Truman Capote and Harper Lee. I was wrong. Kim Powers brilliantly brings their strange relationship alive in a way a standard-issue biography never could. Weaving together fact, speculation and fantasy, he creates a sort of emotional biography that will haunt you long after the last page...just as the ghosts of the slain Clutters must have haunted them.”

Maybe best of all, Library Journal, in a starred review, has this to say:
"In his exceptional first novel, Emmy and Peabody Award winner Powers presents us with Truman Capote in the last year of his life. Addled by drugs and alcohol and despairing the wreck his shining life has become, he is plagued by the ghosts of the people whose deaths he chronicled in his greatest book, In Cold Blood. The now-old Harper Lee, or Nelle as she calls herself, is the only one who has a shot at understanding Truman—his childhood friend, she served as companion and researcher on the trip to Kansas that produced In Cold Blood. But Nelle has her own ghosts to exorcise having to do with why she never wrote a second book. In Kansas, Powers speculates, Truman exposed Nelle to her own sexuality, which she continues to suppress. And at his famous 1966 Black and White Ball, green with envy over Nelle's having won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Truman spreads the rumor that it was he who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, not she. Powers, whose 2006 memoir, The History of Swimming, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, succeeds brilliantly in blending fact and fiction to produce a sensitive portrait of two lost souls. Heartily recommended for public collections."

VISIT KIMPOWERSBOOKS.COM

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Chidren's books

Sun, 15 Aug 2004 07:04:05 GMT

What are some of your favorites? Personally, out of current authors I'd have to say J.K. Rowling (you could see that one coming, couldn't you? *wry grin*) and Tamora Pierce. Some of my favorites from elementary school were,
_A Wrinkle In Time_
_The Secret of Nymph_ (aplogoies, I can only remember the film title)
_Can I Get There By Candlelight?_
_Mary Poppins_ (never have forgotten some of those images!)
Peace and good reading light,
Aleera

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Library book request - Dynamic Belly Dance

Ramona — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:55:20 GMT

Would you like to read a book about the art of belly dancing filled with beautiful photos and illustrations?

If yes, please ask your public library to add to their collection:

Dynamic Belly Dance, The Joyful Journey of Dancemaking and Performing by Ramona
ISBN 978-0-615-13326-3

This book is available to library distributors. If your librarian has questions about availability or needs further info/excerpt/details, go to www.DynamicBellyDance.com

Thanks so much! I'm the author of this new book, and need your help in getting it into libraries.

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a thousand splendid suns

maralove — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:26:22 GMT

anyone who has read the kite runner needs to get this and read it. thousand... is another perspective of the world of afghan political shifts. and it is heartbreaking. this is truly in my top five now.

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Social Sampler - a new social networking event

scott — Fri, 11 May 2007 08:02:57 GMT

Social Sampler

meet other bibliophiles... in person... have interesting conversations...

http://www.SocialSampler.com

Try something new... Meet someone new...
28 activities 7 rooms 6 hours 300 chairs 10,000 square feet
6 pm to 12 midnight Saturday May 26
$12 general - $6 Students with ID
each Fourth Saturday of the Month
Oakland Veterans Hall
200 Grand Avenue, Oakland CA 94610
info Scott (650) 326-6265
scottFNW@pway.com
Light refreshments. Large parking lot. Casual comfortable attire. All ages.
Average age 30. Average attendance 150 - 250.
A non alcohol event. Join, watch, or wander activities. several helpful hosts

CONVERSATION TABLES: Movies, Books, Relationships, Culture, Tech, Dining, Humor, Random Chat, Artists, Networking, Writers, Harry Potter, Pets, Weather, Vacations; DANCING: Waltz, Swing, Latin SOCIAL : Board games, Card games, Social games, Sing alongs, Script Read alouds, Costumers club, Toys, Food sampler

Conversation Tables
Each Conversation table has a different theme such as Movies, Books, Relationships, Culture, Tech, Dining, Humor, Random Chat, Artists, Networking, Writers, Harry Potter, Pets, Weather, and Vacations.

Each table has a deck of cards with a different topic on each card. Each card is turned over one at a time. People talk about the topic as they wish until everyone who wants to talk is finished. Then the next card is turned over. For example, for the Movie Table, topic cards include “Your favorite movie?” “Your favorite actor?” “Your worst movie experience?” “Your favorite theatre” “Your favorite movie snack?”. Similar topic cards decks are set on each conversation table. You may participate or just listen. You may join or leave any table at any time. There is a host at each table to answer questions.
Movies Table May 26 -a table each for Spiderman III, Shrek III, Pan's Labyrinth, movies in general.
Books Table Recent book discussion, writing, literature, business of authorship
Relationships Table Romance and Relationships discussion
Culture Table Symphony-dance-opera-ballet-theatre
Technology Table Technology, computers and science fiction
Dining Table cooking, fine dining, restaurant, food, cooking experiences
Humor Table Read Jokes, write cartoon captions
Random Chat Table There are 100 cards: "What was the oddest thing you have ever seen?""What is your worst hair day?" “What was your worst job experience?" "Most embarassing moment?"
Artists Exchange Table Exchange techniques, shows, art
Networking Table Business Networking: startups, marketing strategy, IPO, financing
The Writers Exchange Table mutual help for new writers and authors
Harry Potter Table movies, books and trivia
Pets Table cute pet stories, pet health
Vacations Table favorite vacations, budget vacations, dream vacations
Weather stories Table Everyone has interesting stories about weather. Blizzards, hurricanes, earthquakes, hail

Dancing
Waltz Dancing Dj music for Waltz, Polka, Congress of Vienna, Bohemian National Polka
Swing Dancing Dj music for Lindy, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Shag, Balboa, Blues dances
Latin Dancing Dj music for Salsa, cha cha, samba, mambo, bachata, cumbia dances

Games Room
Social games including charades, acronamatic, the question game, story time, WHAT IF? There are social board games in the room: pick up a social board game, select a table, and invite other to play with you. You may leave any game at any time. All games stop after 30 minutes so that everyone can try other games.

Board games including cranium, outburst, monopoly, Pictionary. There are social board games in the room: pick up a board game, select a table, and invite other to play with you. You may leave any game at any time. All games stop after 30 minutes so that everyone can try other games

Card games including Hearts, Holmes Card Game, Magic: Mamma Mia, other. There are many decks of cards and many specialty card decks. Pick out a game, select a table, invite others to join. You may leave any game at any time. All games stop after 30 minutes so that everyone can try other games.

Social Rooms

Toys
Legos, Tinker Toys, K’nex, Erector sets, modeling clay, group jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzle. You are welcome to play with the toys and invite others to join you.

Script read-alouds
reading aloud scripts from TV, plays, movies, such as the Simpsons, Seinfeld, Friends, Mash, All in the Family, Hamlet, Shakespeare in Love,Buffy, Coupling, American Beauty. There are many scripts on the table. Pick one that you would like to read aloud. Select a table, invite others to join in. Everyone selects a character, and start reading aloud.

Food Sampler There is a different food sampler each Social Sampler. Some food sampler themes are ice creams, chocolates, coffees, potato chips, cookies. Odd Ice Creams with be sampled for May 26: Avacado, Buko (Baby Coconut), Ginger, Green Tea, Halo Halo (Buko, Langka, Ube, Pineapple, Mongo &Sweet Beans), Langka (also known as Jackfruit, a relative of the Fig), Lychee, Mango, Thai Tea, Sweet Coconut, and Ube (purple Yam).

Costumers Club activities include swap or sell fabric, clothing, or costumes' sewing circle talk; or meet potential new clients about new costumes, tuxes, or gowns; or finish a costume in a 'stitch and bitch' session. This is a group for costumers and seamstresses who make costumes, gowns, wedding dresses, and clothing for such events as Renaissance Faire, Dickens Faire, Science Fiction costume masquerade balls, Halloween balls and events, Sea of Dreams NYE, Anon Salon events, Costume cons, Belly Dancers outfits, Greater Bay Area Costume Group events, Art Deco's Gatsby picnic, Newport Week, San Francisco Waltzing Society, Friday Night Waltz New Year's Eve formal Waltz Balls, Peers and Gaskells formal balls.

Sing alongs
Sea Shanteys are songs traditionally sung by sailors to accompany and set the rhythm for certain kinds of heavy, repetitive work on board ship—raising and trimming the sails, raising the anchor, and working the pumps.

Musicals are the songs from musical plays and movies, such as Sound of Music, Grease, Singing in the Rain, Brigadoon, Hair, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls.

Folk songs are just that: traditional folk songs

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Napolean of Notting Hill

Linsey — Wed, 09 May 2007 23:50:15 GMT

So i'm sure at least some of you have read it. Its my favorite book, and i've never ran into any fellow bibliophiles who have read this book.
So please, give me a shout out if you've read.

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Life of Pi

Sprout — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:56:05 GMT

Have you read this?
What are your thoughts?
Oy I need a book discussion group!!!!
For once i want to talk about a book I've read instead of just absorbing it................

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richard bach and his ferrets

jen — Sun, 21 Mar 2004 06:06:49 GMT

has anyone read both richard bach's old writing [bridge across forever, one, jonathan, etc] and also read any of his new work, the ferret fables? i saw one of the fables listed on amazon.com and read some scathing reviews saying that the author had lost what bit of sanity he originally had. are they that bad, that incoherent? or are they just in the bach-language we learned in the early books?

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"Culture means reading."

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:50:17 GMT

Albert Jay Nock, author of MEMOIRS OF A SUPERFLUOUS MAN, wrote that. It's my favorite three-word sentence about reading, about culture, and probably about meaning....

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What are you reading?

Dizzybabysan — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:29:13 GMT

I need some new fodder everyone. so anyone that would care to list a new/old recomendation would be greatly appreciated.

*does anyone know of a word for booklover/bibliophile that starts with the letter "E"?

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need a little help

Livnsbr — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:04:25 GMT

the book is Chronicals of Silesia c.1619
written in Fractur....pics are avalible in my photo album
If anyone can point me in a direction as to where i can find info on the book
that would be much appreciated

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Site for book recommendations?

Fri, 26 May 2006 19:27:18 GMT

I’ve done a bit of searching for a site that will provide recommendations on the next book I should read (besides the obvious, mainstream, top sellers). My Amazon picks are all over the place since I’ve bought stuff for my parents, my kids, school, etc. No Amazon I don’t want to read another book about accounting ever.

What have people had luck with? A few sites seem promising, like whatshouldireadnext.com, nextfavorite.com and librarything, but I’m not sur how valid the recommendations are

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photos of books?

9------9 — Mon, 22 May 2006 05:46:52 GMT

Here starts about 19 photos documenting (not very clearly) SOME of my books, done last year:
http://tribes.tribe.net/b7ea0328-3837-43a2-b01d-5d5069549150/photos/13190801-257e-4267-a773-af7177e44d9a

WHY did I do this absurd thing??? Because I'm a silly small-time bibliophile, I suppose.

I'll need to update, and take better photos.
My favorite book isn't even in there.

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Book fondler...

theunrulyj — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 03:51:43 GMT

...at large. Sometimes I don't even get around to reading them. I buy and find and collect them. Stack them, store them, wipe dust off them. Organize them, flip through them, pick them up, put them down. Borrow them, lend them out. Mail them back and forth across the country when I move from place to place. Carry more in my backpack than I really should without streatching first to warm up. Lose them, come across them, get rid of them, and then bide my time doing other things till I can go haunt another used book store and buy more.
...the line blurs for me between literary intrest and straight up compulsive behavior. Anyone else? Everyone else?

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Welcome... what was your favorite book? and Why?

Cattiva — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:18:08 GMT

I recently read "A Singlular Hostage", by Thalassa Ali. About a young victorian british woman in India in the 1838... Quite vivid. entertaining and a good mix of mystical storytelling in an historical setting.

(reviews: http://www.largeprintreviews.com/singular.html and http://www.anitanair.net/pages/book_reviews12.htm and http://www.poetry-reviews.com/A_Singular_Hostage_0553381768.html)

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did... did anyone else read this recently?

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Just joined

tiger1 — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 05:41:26 GMT

Hello! I just joined this tribe and so happy to find others who still love books! I'm looking forward to some interesting disscussions. tigereyes

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BookCAT

steve888 — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:09:29 GMT

Does anyone here use BookCAT? A friend of mine recommended it to me - I need to catalogue my books becuase I'm forgetting what I've actually got and what I've just looked at in used bookstores!

It looks pretty good and is only about $40.... be very pleased to hear your thoughts about Book CAT or recomendations of other software.

Ideally I'd like something I can store on my laptop and transfer to Palm Tungsten T so I can check the Palm while in a bookstore

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e-books: any takers?

grrrly — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 06:51:52 GMT

so what's the general concensus on e-books and e-book authors? love 'em, hate 'em? untalented hacks who couldn't make it in the "real" publishing world, or unsung heroes of their medium? the wave of the future, or just a stupid fad?
i have to admit, i've got mixed feelings myself. i remember reading a book when i was younger, 'this place has no atmosphere', about a teen who was sent to live on the moon. totally goofy and forgettable, but what stuck with me was a scene where the main character was unpacking, and the most precious possession she'd brought with her was an actual book, with pages and a cover, not some disc thing that had to be read off a screen, and it was a pretty rare thing. i remember thinking, "damn, that would fucking suck, not having real books!"
i still think that. there's nothing to compare to wandering through a bookstore and actually flipping through the pages. but the idea of e-books has been stuck in the back of my head since they first came out years ago. i've been reading a lot of them lately, and it got me thinking. there's a lot of undiscovered talent there, a lot of great writers that are slipping under the radar because their work can't be found in the local mega-bookstore. as much as i railed against their (initial) inaccessability and refused to take them seriously as "real" books, my opinion on them has changed as they've become more widely available in different formats and just as great a variety of genres as you see in paper publishing. i still give in to temptation at times and print out the shorter ones (cause if it's on paper, that makes it more real, right?), and i'll *never* give up paper books. but there's something to be said for the convenience of having upwards of 200 books downloaded to my hard drive and backed up on cd-r, and being able to cart them all about in my laptop bag, rather than try to stuff five or six into my backpack and lug that heavy thing about all day.
so, other opinions?

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book donations

Aisha — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:15:55 GMT

Please excuse a cross posting...

Harry N. Abrams and its various imprints, including Stewart, Tabori & Chang, are collecting books to send to the New Orleans Public Library, which lost eight branches in the devastation following Hurricane Katrina. The company, which has gathered hundreds of books and hopes to send more than 1,000, is also urging others in the book world to make donations to the library. Hardcovers and paperbacks for adults and children are welcomed. The library will decide whether books will be added to its collection, given to destitute families or sold to raise money.

Titles may be dropped off at Abrams offices at 115 W. 18th St. in New York City or sent directly to:

Rica A. Trigs
Public Relations Department
New Orleans Public Library
219 Loyola Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70112

Contact: 504-421-7055 or rtrigs@gno.lib.la.us.

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what are you reading today?

Anna — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:05:14 GMT

at home, i'm reading SATANIC VERSES (rushdie) and PRAGUE (phillips). in the car, it's GODS FROM OUTER SPACE (von daniken). and in the bathroom (tmi, i know), i'm reading a bio of edgar cayce.

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new tribes: small CHUNKS OF WRITING, Our Dreams

sweetajuma — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 01:15:00 GMT

I have started a couple new tribes in the past month that you may be interested in. From the Beloved Bay Area...to S. Korea, the tribes are all about dreamy droppy stuff oozing out of stem slappin' places, Oh!...and writing...

The dreams tribe is caled Our Dreams

ourdreams.tribe.net

Writing tribe: (the unfortunate name of) small CHUNKS OF WRITING

smallchunksofwriting.tribe.net

Why chunks? I don't know...it is what came out at the time...

I just posted an exercise on "The Troubled Vision" which is all about writing from a different slant of reality...TV snow coming from walls, or the Virgin Mary in a lint drawer...things smiling at you while others stare blankly.

Shannon

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Truismes

Twystinme — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 17:00:52 GMT

There is a book I read in French by Marie Darrieusecq. I cannot recommend this book enough. The French title is TRUISMES, but there is an english translation which is not quite as good, but still makes for a very interesting (though short) read. The name of the book in english is Pig Tales. It's a play on words in both languages, and i think a great commentary on society.

Adam

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Been too quiet here....what's everyone been reading???

SandyS — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:41:53 GMT

Okay, been a little dead here while several of the other book tribes have been fairly lively.

So what's everyone been up to, book-wise I mean??

I'm currently trying to plow through book seven of the Wheel of Time series, before I forget who everyone is.

Also, I'm still trying to read "The Tower At Stony Wood". I am finally getting into it, but it was really tough. Cool but tough.

I just finished Arturo Perez Reverte's The Fencing Master. Really enjoyed it. The plot is merely mediocre, but the main character, historical detail and thorough research of fencing made it a most entertaining read.

I just started re-reading The Gunslinger by Stephen King. I want to re-read the first four volumes of the Dark Tower series before reading volumes 5 & 6 (haven't bought 7 yet).

I am also reading Heart of Darkness at the same time as an old high school friend. We both somehow missed out on many classic novels and decided to tackle and discuss a few together via IM once we finish each choice. He downloaded his copy from www.blackmask.com for MS Reader to read on his laptop on vacation and I have a "real" book. lol.

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Greetings

Sat, 07 Aug 2004 18:14:25 GMT

My name is Aleera, and my friend Sandy invited me to join this tribe. I'm a literature major; books are my joy and inspiration.
Recently, I stumbled into a series 2nd-book-first. I've been trying to find the beginning novel with no success. The title is _Across the Nightingale Floor_ by Lian Hearn. Would anyone here know where I can pick this up rather cheap?
Merry met,
Aleera

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Books--do all books have a spiritual component or not?

timbo — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 10:05:16 GMT

Every book is derived from the effort of a fellow thinking being. I know that I find comfort in reading a book and by keeping books around as it gives me more wisdom, knowledge, and/or experience than I normally would have. Books can be reassuring. Each book is a conversation between you and its author. In fact, I even read at a speed where the sounds of the words in my mind are that of someone speaking at close to a normal rate of vocal speech. I do that to hear the nuance, phrasing better.

So, are all books spiritual in nature, are some of them spiritual in nature, or are none of them spiritual in nature? I believe that on one level they are all manifestations of people in some way or another...

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Book recycling

timbo — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 01:50:32 GMT

Hi Book-fans,

I believe someone at the El Ceritto Recycling Center told me once that many books get recycled--that's what apparently happens to many of the books in the SF Bay Area that the Goodwill's, Salvation Army, and other fine used bookstores don't want...also with books public libraries can't sell I seem to recall.

Anybody know more about the process of recycling books. Do they drop them into chemical vats, water them down into slurry and then press them into paper, make rolls out of them...and eventually return to our hot little hands as NY Top 10?

T

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[OT?] Bizarre classification schemes

joehalliwell — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:18:28 GMT

Hi,

Apologies if this is a little off-topic -- this tribe just seemed like the best place to make the following request.

Trying to liven up a paper, I'm hunting for detailed anecdotes about glitches in library classification schemes. I'm especially interested in:

* Idiosyncratic classification schemes
* Inconsistent/incomplete classification schemes
* Understandable misclassifications

I'm also interested in similar anecdotes about other typologies.

Any assistance/pointers would be greatly appreciated :)

Thanks,
Joe
--
http://www.constrained.org
"the Oulipian writer is always inspired." -- Raymond Queneau

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Read any good books lately?

BonnieMargay — Sun, 09 May 2004 07:17:41 GMT

Since I'm not in school this year, I've been reading like a madwoman. Joining a local book club has increased the variety of genres I'm dabbling in. Here's what I've read this month:

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua

Emotional Alchemy by Tara Bennett-Goleman

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

A Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbanes

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

Lathe of Heaven by Ursula LeGuin

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood by Merlin Stone

Forgiveness by Sidney and Suzanne Simon

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Church and the Second Sex by Mary Daly

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

All very delicious!

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Spring is in the shelves

katforan — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 23:18:32 GMT

Once a year I put aside a day to pull all my books off the shelves and into the living room where they irritate my roommates no end while I sort them and make piles of those loaned to me, duplicates, genres and ones to get rid of as I'll never read them again. This time is coming soon. Anyone know somewhere besides Green Apple to get rid of books- they never want all of them- and I always give the leftovers to the library, I don't think they want all of them either...Anyone want some? or did any of you loan me some- that pile is usually pretty solid- but you never know - I can be confused - anyone want to help- no, really, I know no one does- but the places to dispose...?

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Printed Ephemera Tribe

albertoforero — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 23:45:17 GMT

check it out

printedephemera.tribe.net

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Logos in Santa Cruz and some questions!

steve888 — Sun, 25 Jan 2004 04:25:20 GMT

Hi - just wanted to say what a joy it was to find Logos bookstore in Santa Cruz when I was driving back to LA from SF a couple of weekends ago. I love books and gardening (permaculture, herbs, etc) and when I'm away from home there's little that brings me as much joy as finding a really good used bookstore...

my definition of good means reasonable prices, extensive esoteric, gardening, eco building and related collections and a good smattering of other interesting people wandering in near silence for hours as they cruise the shelves.

I got a relatively hard to find Perelandra workbook plus about 10 other used books. Because I've got a large collection, I hardly go into new bookstores anymore. They don't usually have what I'm after - especially as I'm trying to build up a reference collection relating to heirloom plant varieties. A lot of the books I'm interested in are now pre-1960. (although I bought 3 books today at a 'new' bookstore, they were all marked down to about 20% of retail price..!)

I often don't know what i'm going to buy. I know the sections I'll be looking in and it's part of the fun to discover a book you didn't know existed.

When I travel I now don't bother to visit 'tourist' spots - I haunt the bookshops. My best buy last year was in Johannesburg - a 1960 copy of The Living Soil by (Lady) Eve Balfour. Hardcover with original dustjacket for about 40 Rand ($US7-8). What was your best buy last year?

(oh, and I don't sell my books)

cheers

Steve (sorry this is a rambling post - answer whatever questions you feel like responding to!)

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