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Comment on Publishing your virtual bookshelf online with Goodreads by Ken Gagne

Ken Gagne — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:31:24 +0000

Thanks for reading, Miranda! The widget was more of a deciding factor than the above review suggests (though I did end up using one specific to WordPress). I haven't been able to get much out of Goodreads' social offerings, due to the limited size of my network. If you do join, please look me up!

Comment on Publishing your virtual bookshelf online with Goodreads by Miranda

Miranda — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:05:37 +0000

Thanks for a really useful review! I'm surprised at myself for not joining either Goodreads or LibraryThing a long time ago. I'd been thinking about it, but never bothered to put forth the effort to investigate them, choose one, and get started. Now maybe I will!

Also, I really like that widget you've added.

Comment on Cataloging a collection with Delicious Library by Miranda

Miranda — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:59:34 +0000

Nice! I don't even have very many books, but now I'm salivating over the idea of a digital catalog of them. And all that metadata! I'm putting this on my list of things to do in the distant future when I have more free time and discretionary income.

Comment on Cataloging a collection with Delicious Library by Mike Maginnis

Mike Maginnis — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:03:06 +0000

Looks like a neat program. I like that it has all those categories in one application. Collectorz has a nice set of applications with similar functionality for Windows, but each thing (books, games, music, etc) has its own application. Here's hoping a version of Delicious Library appears Windows someday!

Comment on So you want to write a novel by Steven Weyhrich

Steven Weyhrich — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:06:07 +0000

Great movie! I wonder how many aspiring writers out there believe even a little of what the writer in this movie does?

Comment on Is e-book piracy ethical? by Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:24:42 +0000

Bear in mind, also, that I could be called a "boutique" media creator, one who does a very specific hand-crafted job that is more expensive but you also get features and considerations that others can't match as well, or aren't incentivised to. For $40 for a DVD set, I would hope you'd expect not to have to buy the whole thing over again later – but only if your purchase was very specifically tracked with a unique code, which my sales are, thanks to the coin necessity and my controlling all distribution points.

Comment on Grammar nazis and other extremes by Ken Gagne

Ken Gagne — Mon, 10 May 2010 14:10:14 +0000

@Mike: That's a tough typo to catch in speech, but I've seen it in writing. In fact, Terry Pratchett seems to use it intentionally in his characters' dialogue, as I've observed this year in both Good Omens and Ringworld.

Comment on Grammar nazis and other extremes by Mike

Mike — Sat, 08 May 2010 14:23:01 +0000

One that always gets me is "could of".

Comment on Local libraries' budgetary issues — and solutions by Alison

Alison — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:56:12 +0000

One issue with regionalizing libraries is that town libraries can serve as a community hub in these days when small towns often have no other. Our library (Boylston) has tried repeatedly to expand or to build a new building, and has not succeeded. It's true that many of the towns around have succeeded where Boylston has failed, but I'd rather have our small local library and interlibrary loan than be forced to go to other towns' libraries (although I do often choose to do just that). And the MBLC forces towns to "own" a library of some kind if the citizens of that town want to use the regional library system.

Schools are funded by the towns but provide services to only a small proportion of the population, while libraries are for everyone, and provide a place where anyone who is motivated can learn about nearly whatever they wish. I hope not to ever see an end to libraries!

Comment on A casual fan's review of Harry Potter 7: The Deathly Hallows by Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:59:42 +0000

OK if you got to #7, you must've read 1-6 so what which was your favorite? I liked #2 Chambers of Secrets.
What confused me in book 7 was that in one scene we supposedly see Lord V. stealing the Elder wand from Dumbledore's tomb and then at the end Harry has it. I had to go back to book 6 to find that Draco Malfoy tried to kill Dumbledore before Snape got to him and thus Draco had control of the Wand without knowing it. The Epilogue was lame!
So was it really worth 34.99? I was disappointed with the ending so I wished I'd waited a week or two later and not paid so much!