tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724254580047847936.post2643690533313155891..comments2024-03-27T20:09:00.283-04:00Comments on Tenkar's Tavern: About the Appendix N LibraryTenkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05159289652051155824noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724254580047847936.post-8575239191408186892020-08-14T14:11:22.814-04:002020-08-14T14:11:22.814-04:001st time hearing of this and now I'll be on th...1st time hearing of this and now I'll be on the lookout. A big part of my family is from that neck of the woods.Christopher Stogdillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07831712020518883173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724254580047847936.post-24954162510619599712020-08-14T14:06:16.179-04:002020-08-14T14:06:16.179-04:00I did not know that!I did not know that!Christopher Stogdillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07831712020518883173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724254580047847936.post-14891319071329763332020-08-12T13:25:35.516-04:002020-08-12T13:25:35.516-04:00I'm surprised Manly Wade Wellman isn't in ...I'm surprised Manly Wade Wellman isn't in your list - his Silver John stories are really strong, and there's a DCC campaign based on the feel of it. Plus, you can find collections of the Silver John stories pretty cheaply - for a time there was one of those Baen free-fiction CDs that had that as a free, legal ebook.John Fialahttp://www.jcfiala.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724254580047847936.post-45156917211570280842020-08-10T15:08:35.771-04:002020-08-10T15:08:35.771-04:00Fritz Leiber's Newhon stories are my absolute ...Fritz Leiber's Newhon stories are my absolute favorite when it comes to S&S, I believe I own 'em all. As you may know, Gygax and Leiber knew each other personally and Fritz contributed to early issues of Dragon.Spudeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11680144686473794709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724254580047847936.post-6306059266410267882020-08-09T17:05:16.831-04:002020-08-09T17:05:16.831-04:00Librarything by default keys off of ISBNs (it'...Librarything by default keys off of ISBNs (it'll fall back to author/title pairs). So instead of entering a RPG book, I can enter the ISBN. If the number has been registered right (unclear what that is, since a lot of RPG stuff I enter has an ISBN but the sources that it polls doesn't recognize them) it'll populate the "work" with authors, covers, copyright stuff, publisher, etc. For books that have multiple printings, covers, and even languages, this can help you find the alternatives (and I think some of the online booksellers may allow searching by ISBN too).<br /><br />You can upload book covers too (I've been doing this for my RPG stuff as the Frog God stuff seems to be one of the has an ISBN but LT can't match it). It also helps in the Frog God case as LT tries to combine books which have the same writer and "almost" the same title (so the PF1, S&W, and 5e versions of a module by default end up merged). Once I separate them out, I can upload the different covers to make it clear that they are different.<br /><br />Things are imprecise even if the data is in there. For example there are multiple Tom Baker's. The first OCD type has to go in to the "Tom Bakers" page and assign the Dr. Who stuff to _that_ Tom Baker (which will show up as "Tom Baker(1)" or the like.<br /><br />None the less, for the generic uncommon name, even if you have Jane Doe (a 19th century writer) and Jane Doe (the RPG cover artist) comingled you can figure things out. Ideally, someone who knows the modern day Jane Doe and what she wrote goes in and 'splits the author'<br /><br />Like wikipedia, it is user sourced so while we can fix errors (Amazon sourced covers can be wrong or of poor quality), in theory new ones can be introduced too (it took me a while to merge the multiple Barrowmaze Complete entries and separate out the non-complete one, as two other persons had not caught the faulty merge and I wanted to make use of the existing cover scan that someone else had uploaded and to do so I had to get that right, for example).<br /><br />Oh, and popularity counts (and reviews and ratings)- I can see that X copies of the book are cataloged (privacy settings of accounts may allow me to find who it is or may not). And "similar libraries" (again, privacy settings can constrain this), so I could see that John Smith has a lot of RPG stuff similar to me and browse his stuff to see if he has reviewed some book that I want.HJBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10888523264153555779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724254580047847936.post-89362906730629663172020-08-09T16:24:39.706-04:002020-08-09T16:24:39.706-04:00I'll have to check that out. I've been usi...I'll have to check that out. I've been using Wikipedia to look up books and figure out what is missing, but if that functionality was baked in.....Christopher Stogdillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07831712020518883173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724254580047847936.post-45404544867425711692020-08-09T15:26:13.249-04:002020-08-09T15:26:13.249-04:00Other suggestions:
Roger Zelazny
Steven Brust
and ...Other suggestions:<br />Roger Zelazny<br />Steven Brust<br />and more recent:<br />Steven EriksonFritsKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05780266328510003563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1724254580047847936.post-26617403174704174252020-08-09T14:58:07.831-04:002020-08-09T14:58:07.831-04:00I've found librarything (aka librarything dot ...I've found librarything (aka librarything dot com) to be a great tool for cataloging books (and CDs, DVDs, PDFs, ...). It looks to be similar to libib in functionality. <br /><br />It has "series" which allow you to find holes in your collection (if someone has defined the series, of course; or you define them to help others). I've also used it to find other works by the same author.<br />HJBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10888523264153555779noreply@blogger.com