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Geek I saw you with the Kindle during the Saturday meeting, I kept meaning to come over during the breaks and ask to see it. But I guess I forgot.

I got way too many books from TAM6 (well not exactly too many) Just more than I can read at this moment.

I also got the two books you got Geek. So you liked them? They are way down in the "to read" stack.

Susan
 
sgf8 said:
Geek I saw you with the Kindle during the Saturday meeting, I kept meaning to come over during the breaks and ask to see it. But I guess I forgot.

I got way too many books from TAM6 (well not exactly too many) Just more than I can read at this moment.

I also got the two books you got Geek. So you liked them? They are way down in the "to read" stack.

Susan
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I bought so many books, I had to carry some of them separately because they made my suitcase over limit on weight. I finished both Chapman books, and yes, I liked them. I recommend you read them in the order that he wrote them, because he quotes several pages from the first book into the second book.

My Kindle rocks....
 
I bought so many books, I had to carry some of them separately because they made my suitcase over limit on weight. I finished both Chapman books, and yes, I liked them. I recommend you read them in the order that he wrote them, because he quotes several pages from the first book into the second book.

My Kindle rocks....
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I started "The Mask of Nostradamus" on the plane ride home, but since we were only in the air for an hour, and I was horribly sleep deprived, I read very little. So now when I have a chance that will be the book I need to finish next. I guess the Chapman books need to move closer to the top of the book list.

Problem is that I start Grad school in August, I already have 4 books that I want to finish before class starts, (and five more yet to purchase). Two of the 4 books I am struggling to get started with, the theme is Nationalism and both authors are just not doing it for me.

So the TAM books are looking so tempting right now. BACK OFF TAM BOOKS.

To make it worse in early August I hope to head up to the Skeptic Toolbox in Eugene OR, they have the bestest of the best used book stores up there. How can I resist?

Susan
 
sgf8 said:
Okay, I'm done. Things did not transfer like they say they will. But it is done and I'm now using Library Thing. They have a lot of cool features and it is totally searchable.
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I also switched to Library Thing (when I got around to it) so my signature link now points to that (although my sig doesn't seem to post if I use the mobile version of the JREF forum). It says we share only 6 books in common :) (two HHGTG books, Jane Eyre, Guns Germs and Steel, God Delusion and Brave New World). So far I have rated most of what I've read but not had time/inclination to review anything.
 
I also switched to Library Thing (when I got around to it) so my signature link now points to that (although my sig doesn't seem to post if I use the mobile version of the JREF forum). It says we share only 6 books in common :) (two HHGTG books, Jane Eyre, Guns Germs and Steel, God Delusion and Brave New World). So far I have rated most of what I've read but not had time/inclination to review anything.
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I had been reviewing books since 1998, so I just had to type it in post it. I'm really glad I did because I was always worried that I might loose my reading journals and then all that work would be gone.

I've added you to my library list.

I also have a few more JREF people on my interesting libraries list. I wish there was a way to make a note of who is who.

Susan
 
I saw this thread a while ago and thought 'oooh that looks cool' but typical me by the time I got round to doing my own, nobody is using Google any more.:o

Still, here's mine:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?uid=...03456074&hl=en

I'd estimate that as about 2/3 of my total stuff, eventually I'll add the rest.
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Before you post anymore albion, switch over to Library Thing. You won't regret it. You can use the ISBN search feature to do it, it took me several hours to transfer it over, but not like reentering it all over again.

Susan
 
sgf8 said:
Before you post anymore albion, switch over to Library Thing. You won't regret it. You can use the ISBN search feature to do it, it took me several hours to transfer it over, but not like reentering it all over again.

Susan
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I decided to take your advice, and it is importing from the google xml. You're right, Library thing looks far more interesting and interactive. It is a veritable geek heaven :D
 
I decided to take your advice, and it is importing from the google xml. You're right, Library thing looks far more interesting and interactive. It is a veritable geek heaven :biggrin:
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I prefer detail oriented & tech savvy over "geek" Unless we are talking about our Geek Goddess, Naomi and then it is okay.

On Google books I felt all alone. Like I had written all my books and reviews in a spiral notebook and showing it off to others riding the "book lovers bus" just seeing one person at a time, never really reaching and discussing with all the readers I could.

Make sure you link with me when you get there. SGerbic or you could just click on "mybooks" here on my post.

Susan
 
sgf8 said:
I prefer detail oriented & tech savvy over "geek" Unless we are talking about our Geek Goddess, Naomi and then it is okay.

On Google books I felt all alone. Like I had written all my books and reviews in a spiral notebook and showing it off to others riding the "book lovers bus" just seeing one person at a time, never really reaching and discussing with all the readers I could.

Make sure you link with me when you get there. SGerbic or you could just click on "mybooks" here on my post.

Susan
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Mine seems to have finished uploading.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/albion25

I'm not sure what you mean by "link with" though, sorry. How do I go about doing that?

Yes, that is what I meant by interactivity, it feels more like a community, with each book having related discussions etc. It is rather like a worldwide bookclub compared to the google model, which seems to be more geared to cataloging your books for reference.
 
Albion, I added you to my interesting libraries page. Here is the books we share in common....

Books you share (10)

See in library
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Brave New World by 1899-1963 Aldous Huxley
Common Sense (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Paine
God Delusion, The by Richard Dawkins
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver W. Sacks
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics) by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Othello (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Shakespeare
The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner


Is this cool yet or what?


Susan
 
My own LibraryThing book account. And also my LibraryThing profile.

I still have about 3,800 books to enter in and index; at the moment, those 3,800 are cluttering up the floor in my loungeroom and attic; while I did get almost 1,300 indexed in LibraryThing and then up on shelves (I hadn't done shelving really before, since I had been working on renovating the house after moving into it), a visit to the DiscWorld convention and then life & work prevented me from entering more in the meantime, but I will get cracking onto it soon.
 
sgf8 said:
Albion, I added you to my interesting libraries page. Here is the books we share in common....

Books you share (10)

See in library
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Brave New World by 1899-1963 Aldous Huxley
Common Sense (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Paine
God Delusion, The by Richard Dawkins
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver W. Sacks
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics) by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Othello (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Shakespeare
The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner


Is this cool yet or what?


Susan
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It is very cool indeed.

I added all of you to my interesting libraries list also.
 
Francesca R said:
7 books in common, and I agree with your rather mediocre rating of The God Delusion and God is Not Great, which I mentioned earlier in the thread.
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I think you hit the nail on the head in regards to TGD. I'm sure it would be much more impressive if I came from a religious background but as the atheist son of two atheist parents it's pretty much "yep, tell me something I don't know". I also find him rather shockingly politically naive. Hitchens on the other hand has always rubbed the wrong way, he is just far too dogmatic.
 
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