Bill of Gripes

[vovat]

The main point of this entry is for me to mention a few minor things that have been bothering me recently:

• That commercial where the two guys rap about McNuggets
  
• The sound those Nextel walkie-talkie things make, and the fact that they JUST KEEP MAKING IT over and over again
  
• This one is even more minor than the others, but I'm a little bothered when people say, "Nobody uses [insert type of technology] here anymore, do they?" Apparently, because I don't have a TiVo or DV-R, I'm on the same level as people who churn their own butter.
  
• Having to drive in snow and/or heavy rain
  
• The fact that the Frank Black Forum has been down for some time now.
  

And to move on to something that's not entirely annoying, I'm in the process of setting up one of those LibraryThing pages. I say it's not ENTIRELY annoying because it IS a little irritating to try to find the right edition of each book. It's not like it really matters all that much if people think I have, say, a 1994 hardback instead of a 1995 paperback, but I guess I figure I might as well do it correctly if I'm doing it at all. The most sensible answer would be to go by ISBNs, although I'm not sure when I'll get the chance to go through my shelves and jot all those down. A fair number of my Oz books don't even have ISBNs, but they're probably not in the LibraryThing database anyway.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You'll be surprised at what is in the LibraryThing database. It's a haven for pre-ISBN books with its 200+ data sources, from the Library of Congress to the British Library with its two Gutenberg Bibles.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I just checked it out, and it actually found some of the Buckethead Enterprises of Oz publications, although I'm apparently the only one there who owns any of them. That's pretty cool.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep.. they're good at including the so called 'long tail' - lots of obscure books with only one owner, or books owned by very few libraries in the world (eccentricity is embraced); so when you DO find someone else who shares your esoteric interest in say, 19th century photography.. the connection is significant and interesting in a way sharing two Harry Potter books isn't.

The next person who enters his Oz collection, for example, is going to find your collection fascinating. Anyway sorry for rambling on.. as you can probably tell, I'm in love with that site.

[slfcllednowhere.livejournal.com]

Yeh, I use GoodReads and I get kind of anal about the having the proper edition thing too. I'm working on getting my whole collection up there right now. What made you decide to use LibraryThing? It bothers me that there are several different pages for this kind of stuff so you won't necessarily be on the same one as your friends.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I recently saw some other people on my friends list mention LibraryThing, so I checked it out and signed up. I really didn't put too much thought into the decision. {g} It is annoying that there are so many sites that are basically the same thing. If they're all free, I guess you could just put the same information on all of them, but that would be pretty time-consuming. Maybe if I'm ever really bored...