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AvainsanatFiction (467), Non-fiction (344), Science Fiction (224), ~Series (121), ~Incomplete (87), Humour (72), Science (47), Detective (44), Novel (42), Reference (40) — kaikki avainsanat

Ryhmät18th-19th Century Britain, Ask LibraryThing, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Atheists review books, BBC Radio 4 Listeners, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, Brights, Brits, Calvin and Hobbes, Cartoonsnäytä kaikki ryhmät

LempikirjailijatDesmond Bagley, Iain Banks, Chambers, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Ursula K. Le Guin, Adam Hall, Peter F. Hamilton, Robert A. Heinlein, Michael Innes, Gavin Lyall, Steven Pinker, Alastair Reynolds, Matt Ridley, Eric Frank Russell (Yhteiset suosikit)

Tietoja minusta I am an Englishman. I work in the computer industry, trying to interface between the business people and the techies, but it's hard, so hard. I don't blog or anything, but I do get addicted to internet sites until I burn them out of my system. Currently, I spend most of my life on Wikipedia ... oh - alright, I mean LibraryThing.

Tietoja kirjastostani Sorry. Normal service with regard to how to make links will resume as soon as possible. I've not figured out what is going on with the new site restriction on URI length.

Older (and nicer) tag view which you get using <a href=/tags.php?view=username>tag view</a>.

Tag cloud from wordle.net:


When viewing my catalogue using my preferred display style, I recommend that you first sort on 'Date read' and then sort on 'Date started'. This will show my recently read books.

Most of my library is sitting in boxes in the garage, just waiting for me to get my house in order. Therefore, it'll never get catalogued.

I was a bookworm as a kid, and devoured Golden Age science fiction. Fiction was all I read, until a friend recommended 'The Selfish Gene' by Richard Dawkins. I've never looked back, and have a growing number of popular science books (and growing faster than being read).

The image is from the t-shirt of the book of the comic Watchmen.

My timeline. And yours. (Use <a href=/lttl/?view=username>timeline</a> to see another's timeline.) This is only at alpha development stage, but still looks pretty nifty unless you've added books en masse, in which case most of the data falls off the bottom. (Back again, hoorah!) Instructions from conceptDawg:
"There are two options: (a) view=USERNAME (b) tlmode=0 or 1
- 0 will show you dates based on start/finish times or date bought values (if there are no start/finish times).
- 1 will show you a timeline based on the date the book was entered into LT.
To use the options you'll have to use a URL something like this:
/lttl/index.php?view=conceptDawg&tlmode=...
"

Currently reading …


(Create the 'currently reading' text line here.)

Recently added …


You can add this information easily by cutting and pasting from the source view of your home page (instructions based on Firefox browser):
a) Choose your 'Home' tab, and then do View -> Page Source from the browser menu
b) Look for "javascript:edit_section('recentlyadded'... and then click at the beginning of the line below this. (The line is nearer the bottom of the page than the top.)
c) Press back-arrow until you are positioned just before </div></div>. (Holding CTRL down while you do this lets you move a 'word' at a time.)
d) Hold the SHIFT key (and keep it pressed until we've stopped selecting the required text) and press up-arrow
e) Still holding the SHIFT key, press the CTRL key at the same time and right-arrow forwards to position the cursor just after "<div id="recentbooks_inside">". (You'll need to release the CTRL key for the fine adjustment at the end.)
f) You can now release the SHIFT key and copy the selected text and paste it to your profile page. (Of course, if you've got other HTML on your profile page, you'll have kept a copy of the profile page text as a document on your computer, so that it's easy to paste the copied text in the same place each time. Use paste special if you're using MS Word, to get rid of any wanted formatting.)

Public Service Announcements
Combining
As a member of the Combiners! group, I welcome comments pointing out any inconsistencies in my library entries.

Cataloguing
You can enforce a particular sort order for a book if you find that it is displaying in the 'incorrect' order in your catalogue listing. Usually (at least for English-language titles, and maybe some other European languages) the reason is that the sorting algorithm ignores words like "A", "An" and "The" at the start of the title. The trick is to put a double pipe - "||" - before the place where you want the sorting to start. Tim illustrates it here, and the rest of that thread may provide further information.

Posting messages in the groups
Caveat: The HTML shown here is what I have found to work, and is not necessarily 'legal' HTML. For instance, within the <a> syntax, the URI should be enclosed in quotes (" ") according to the formal definition. [Credit: PaulFoley]

Basic HTML commands. (You can even use these in topic titles.):
<b>bold</b>
<i>italic</i>
<u>underline</u>
<a href=URL_for_a_link>your descriptive text</a>
(<strike></strike> will put a line through text, but it doesn’t work on profile pages)

(&lt; &gt; and &amp; are <, > and & (remember the semi-colon after the code), but they are interpreted if you use them in a post, so you have to enter them again if you edit your post. The [ (left square bracket) symbol can be generated in a post using "&#x005B;" or "&#0091;". The ] (right square bracket) symbol can be generated in a post using "&#x005D;" or "&#0093;".)

For an URL (more properly, URI) that references a page within LibraryThing, you can help people who use other language variants of the site by supplying a relative link (one without the "http://www.librarything.com") rather than an absolute link. For example, the relative link to my catalogue is <a href=/catalog.php?view=Noisy&... catalogue</a>. [Credit: boekerij]

Go directly to a post in a thread by adding "#messagehead99" (where 99 is the post number). <a href=/talktopic.php?topic=169...post 53</a> takes you to one of Tim’s comments about future development priorities.

When posting a link to an external URL in the Groups, you must put a space before and after the URL in order for it to become an automatic link.

ETA in a group message means 'Edited to add'.
OP in a group message means 'Opening post'.

Adding messages elsewhere
Disambiguation notices and descriptions have different rules for HTML, and one useful command is to use <p> to force paragraph breaks when carriage return fails.

WikiThing
WikiThing is a repository for information about LibraryThing. It is new, and is being populated by members of the LT community, so that means YOU! Please help. At the moment things may seem a little disorganised because people are just finding their feet and experimenting. Discussions still belong in the groups, and discussions about WikiThing are ongoing in the WikiThing group.

Every Thingamabrarian has their own user page on the wiki where they can experiment: http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Use...YourNameHere. (As yet, there is no internationalization.)

Pretty Profile Pages
I would tell you how to post images, but GreyHead has already covered that ground.

Hmmm. Your visitor map doesn't seem to have changed recently? You probably need to bypass your cache. If you are using MS Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers, this is done by pressing [CTRL]-[F5] (at the same time).

Visitor Map
Create your own visitor map!

My profile page has been visited free html hit counter times since 28AUG2007. View my statistics from http://www.statcounter.com/ here.

Locations of visitors to this page count started 20080406

[updated 2008-06-28]

Mukana myösWikipedia

Jäsenyys LibraryThing Early Reviewers ("varhaiset kirja-arvostelijat")

SijaintiHampshire, England

Käyttäjätilin tyyppijulkinen, elinaikainen

YhteysuutisetYhteysuutiset

URL:t http://www.librarything.com/profile/Noisy (profiili)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Noisy (kirjasto)

RekisteröitymispäiväAug 18, 2006

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You always have such interesting things on your profile page!
Hey Noisy,
Thanks for the tips on where to find all the good info, and for the good stuff here on your profile. I thought my visitor map was broken but your tip fixed it right up!

Is it OK if I put you on a watchlist or a friends list or something; so I can come back and refresh my memory with your tips?
&||nbsp -> non breaking space in html..(the ||) just means concatenate. so it's the &+nbsp for a hard space.

      bob
Hi Noisy. Just wanted to say thanks for all the helpful info on your profile page. Really a wealth of useful, and interesting, stuff. Thank you!
Thank you - that was very helpful. :)
Hey, I was reading your tips here on your profile, and the timeline thing is kinda nifty. I'm curious though, and hoping you can help me - where do I enter the information for start and end dates for each book? And do you know if it is possible to retroactively set start and end dates if I know when I read a book but it is before the book was added to LT?

Thanks muchly. :)
Thanks for the post 13 trick (I think I've seen something that looked like linenumbers, but I didn't look at the source of the webpage to see what else could be done), but I think it would spoil the fun to link to the exact message. I want people to browse through the whole thread. And yes, the tag cloud is cached, so our dot-blank-whatever tag is probably a ghost.
BTW I tried to document some of the tag bugs:
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.p...
FYI: I found another weird tag in your tag cloud: . ~series
That is dot-blank-tilde-series.
Hi I just used a couple of minutes looking at your tagcloud.

You have a tag "Science Fiction ~Series" that looks very much like two tags you have combined by accident.
Noisy, a big thanks for showing how to still get the old tag view. But after adding that to my profile under "About my library," the phrase "About my library" ended up blue, any ideas why that might be? Thanks - ER
Ah, now I understand. I had thought that it was something I had said in a forum somewhere. No, I am not he, but somehow, in a little way, he is me (and possibly all LTers). Cheers (hic)

Jim
OK, Black Books... I love Black Books but why are you saying "Black Books" to me?
thanks for the books suggestion
Thanks. I can see I need to learn HTML
OK, how do you do a primary and secondary sort in LT? I thought you could only sort by one field.
Fantastic, it's exactly that kind of group I was looking for.
Thank you for telling me about it.

I have not read that book, but I have the movie, perhjaps I should go watch it soon :-)

Have a wonderful day
Hi there

I just joined your group words and phrases.
I love languages and words, so it's always good with a group where you can leanr new words and post a question about a word if in doubt :-)
Thanks for clarifying Timeline's origin. (It's still nice!)
Hi Noisy, Thanks for your comment on CodexMap. Timeline is very nice as well!
No problem, I love wikis because you can so easily contribute!
Much obliged on the html. I hadn't realised the timeline didn't work for others.

If you do manage to find the rest of the Chanur quintet by Cherryh I think you might enjoy it.

Fox.
I edited it to show both sources. Maybe it will sort out eventually. I tend to think the KY paper probably had it right since he lived there.
The New York Times claims Robin Moore died on Tuesday the 19th. Hmm. I wonder where else we can get this verified.
Hullo. i enjoyed your review of Smilla's Sense of Snow and look forward to browsing your library.
We were typing at the same time!

I fixed the link - sorry about that, it generally drives me nuts to have the scroll bar as it is! I'm in the midst of some rather compulsive Stephen King clean-up, but I'll check out the PKD short stories as well. It definitely appears that several companies were trying to get in on the short story collection.
Hi Noisy,
Your profile page is most interesting. I think I'm going to bookmark it. And the stats provided by statcounter are impressive by their clarity and lavishness. It looks really good and gives some ideas.
Best wishes,
François
Sorry. Hope I didn't cause too much trouble. Just don't know what I'm doing, is all...
Just a heads-up: all the HTML links you write are, strictly speaking, illegal - the correct syntax is <a href="...">...</a> -- note the quotes!
It was originally a private group, but I've opened it now so feel free to join and start a discussion about Matter and bring friends too! :)
Thanks for the advice -- I've got the deeply-engrained habits of an applications programmer(save...compile...save...compi... Your comments subtly brought to my attention that this habit (essential at work) results in me dominating the editing history in a collaborative environment.

I am an old hand at software development, but brand new to Wiki editing. Please feel free to offer any criticism or advice that you deem fit. Thanks again.
Noisy, thank you for replying to my question posted in the FAQ group. Having made my way over to your profile I have to say it is, by far, the most interesting & useful profile page I have yet seen on LT. Cheers. :-)
I think a tutorial on LT that stays simple will be more used than the one on Wikipedia. If it looks easy at first, more people will be willing to try it. I encourage you to build it.

Perhaps do one that is divided into Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3, etc. and ask for feedback from those who use it. Once those lessons are indivdually used, only then proceed to more difficult lessons.

Use a group thread to talk about things together with others (...says I who is not looking for anything else to do!). All the fun on LT is taking me away from things I *need* to do. :-)
Noisy,

Thank you for posting the HTML commands on your profile. I come back here to copy and paste every time I want to post a link.

Cheers!
John
or even curt
Sorry that sounded very kurt. I'm sorry. Never went to bed and it's morning. :)
Hey. Can you follow the hint text for author dates? The pattern is mm/dd/yyyy. Thanks! Tim See http://www.librarything.com/commonknowle...
The wishlist table would work.
In order to spoil as little as possible, I deleted my entire post. Don't you think it's a bit silly, luring peple like that? {hee hee hee}
You are welcome about the link to your page :-) it helped me, so I hope it will help others that stumble upon my page
What do you mean by the following?:
"Because of the HTML I've got on my profile, I need to store it as a document, and load it again every time I change my profile, so beware if you try and do fancy stuff."
What "fancy" HTML do you have on your page that needs to be "loaded" every time you change your profile? I haven't experienced something similar so far ..
Hi

thanks for your HTML help. Is there a way of making a link so that it leads you directly so some other part of a page than a specific post (for example to some Text)?

thanks for the help
Thanks Noisy! I was not sure where to paste in the code from the MapLoco page.

I like your PSA's too. You might add for the links that if one adds target="_blank" just before the href, the link will open in a new window.
OK, how do I get MapLoco to appear on my profile page? I have a free account, does that make a difference? Thanks in advance for your help!
Thanks, my location's showing now.
Noisy,
And I thought ETA was just a Basque separatist group! Your Public Service Announcements are so helpful, I hope you don't mind if I refer people over to your profile to check them out (plus I've copied them to try out later when I've got more time). Thank you!

And one more thing, your profile is way cool, but how come there's no red dot on Florida to show I'm visiting your page from there?
ER
Hi

You are right. Thanks for your encouraging reaction.

Edwin
Thank you for your kind clarification in Re: Arnold.

Sincerely,
boekerij.
It was a repeat. I saw it both times. Unfortunately they didn't use it except a quote at the begining from Tim Hunt, Probably because all the headlines are boring link "The national singles" and "player ratings" etc.
Hi, in the combiners group we have an "affinity" of 99%. Iain Banks did that.

Christine
Thanks for pointing that out I hadnt noticed,its sorted now.
Ah, The Guinness Book of Answers! One of the favourite books of my childhood. I'm keeping it now for sentimental reasons, of course, because as time marches on, most of the answers it offers are wholly innaccurate. But I find its big red hardback cover and its promise of factual lists extraordinarily nostalgic.

Hope you're enjoying Librarything!
Thanks I'll try it when I get home tonight! Rox
I read your review of Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything then was intrigued to discover that the 29 books we have in common are among my favorites (Ridley, Dawkins, Gould, etc.). Even our jobs are similar, in that I am a go-between for our IT department techies and our line staff.

Hope you eventually get to the books in your garage. I have 30+ boxes out there and I just tackled them this week! First time I saw some of those books in years.

And if you have any interest in Australia, might I tempt you to read Bryson's In a Sun-Burned Country. It's a meaty -- if not technical -- natural history. It's one of his best.

Best wishes!

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