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Francesca R said:
6 book overlap, which includes "Sources of Power" and "Blink" which is interesting. I think Gary Klein's book is very much better (more rigorous analysis, better development of decision-making theory) than the more casual Malcolm Gladwell one, though you rated them both the same.
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Yes, I think the "stars" rating system tends to gloss over details a fair bit - I like the two books for different reasons. This equates to the same number of stars, but my appreciation of both is different.

I rate books based on the blink, rather than on a detailed analysis. :p
 
I've not read this area in a few months, and noticed everyone talking about Library Thing. I thought I would give it a whirl. I still will use my Book Colletorz software (hey, I paid for it), but this seems much better way to share than Google.

My library, when I get it posted, will be under GeekGoddess.

:D
 
LibraryThing seems to work pretty well for me. There's a whole community/social networking thing going there that I don't have much time to join in on.
 
LibraryThing seems to work pretty well for me. There's a whole community/social networking thing going there that I don't have much time to join in on.
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That's what I thought at first, there are a lot of clubs for all kinds of things. I had one woman approach me to join her club she was just starting with the American Girl Diary books. I was flattered and joined in the discussion with two other people. We had about 5 total posts and no one has said a word in months.

That's what seems to be happening, very few of the groups seem to "talk" much. There are a couple that are like the ones here, "what are you reading at the moment" kind of threads, and they generate a lot like the ones here do.

But for the most part, I'm not seeing a lot of conversations going on. They have a few things they could do to improve discussions but mostly of the place it is good. For example, I have all of you added to my favorite library list over there. I also have a few people that I found there that have libraries I am very interested in, plus a few others. I would like to group these groups into some kind of sub-group and be able to "watch" what you review and are currently reading or adding. And then the same thing with other people but for different reasons. Also I want to be able to remember who is who. You all don't use the same name here as you do there, (I am sgerbic there) so I wish I could have a "remember" tag.

Anyway, nothing is perfect. It is still a lot better than Google

Susan
 
I exported my Google Books over to Library thing yesterday, but last night noticed that it didn't pick up about 30 books. But, I don't know which ones, so I have to go through it manually at some point.

I debate whether to enter books I've read, but no longer own.
 
All us LibraryThing people should all append "Super-Geek" to prefix our usernames.

Probably "Super-Geek-who-reads-very-fast" is too long as a prefix.
 
All us LibraryThing people should all append "Super-Geek" to prefix our usernames.

Probably "Super-Geek-who-reads-very-fast" is too long as a prefix.
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You know what, this is a good idea. Trust me once you start looking at some of the other cool libraries you aren't going to remember who was who.

I like the idea of writing JREF or something like that somewhere where it can be seen. Maybe we should just make a JREF group there not for discussion (we can do that here) but that way we can see at a glance who is there as far as grouping goes?

Susan
 
I debate whether to enter books I've read, but no longer own.
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I thought about this, but finally decided not to. I only have books I could go pull off a bookcase. Or tell one of my kids "I want it back now"

Susan
 
Erm, how do you write a review in Library Thing? I don't seem to be seeing a "write a review" thiingy.
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Make sure you are signed in.

Go to the book, so it's picture is on the left of the screen. Under the picture it says "edit book" go there.

in the middle of the screen you will see two tabs "work details" and "book details" click on book details.

Scroll down a bit, it should give the title, author, tags, status, then it asks for you to select the stars you want for the book. Then you can write your review. It is in a almost grayed out writing, so at first it is hard to see where they want you to write.

Make sure you save the thing when your done.

I hope this helps. I love reading other people's reviews. I use reviews a lot when I am trying to decide what to read next (when I can read for fun) and when reading school books (which I am doing now) I use the reviews to help me get more from my reading. I wish more people would review the school type history things I have to read. I'm happy when at least one person leaves a review.

So every time I read a book I leave a review, hopefully it will help the next person.

Susan
 
If there are hundreds of reviews already written (think Lord of the Rings) I'm not going to bother. I have written a few when I see that a particular book has no other reviews, or perhaps only one or two.
 
That's interesting. LibraryThing has a new "Will You Like" feature that estimates whether I would like a particular book or not. I checked out the page for Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers and it says that I "Probably won't like" it.

I find that particularly strange, since I already have Gladwell's other two books rated four stars in my library. I already own Outliers, by the way, and it's queued up for when I finish Freakonomics. I have every expectation that I will love the book. I wonder how LibraryThing calculates this particular statistic?
 
My library's location is made of awsome.
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Renton, Washington, US.

I realize this isn't actually the topic, but it made me think of it.
 
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