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Natter about LT.
I've given up waiting for LT to get Unicode right. I'll still use it for cataloging, but other than inventory, it'll be of no use until it gets a serious overhaul. Sigh. At least those with Japanese texts will find it useful, if incomplete.
On the other hand, I've found the very best reading there in the Ancient China group, http://www.librarything.com/groups/ancientchina LOL!
I picked up Yotsuba&! volume 4 in Japanese for the teens. The younger one was thrilled to be able to read the first three pages and understand them. When you see the first three pages, you'll understand how that's cheating ...
I've given up waiting for LT to get Unicode right. I'll still use it for cataloging, but other than inventory, it'll be of no use until it gets a serious overhaul. Sigh. At least those with Japanese texts will find it useful, if incomplete.
On the other hand, I've found the very best reading there in the Ancient China group, http://www.librarything.com/groups/ancientchina LOL!
I picked up Yotsuba&! volume 4 in Japanese for the teens. The younger one was thrilled to be able to read the first three pages and understand them. When you see the first three pages, you'll understand how that's cheating ...
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Date: 2007-01-27 06:58 am (UTC)LT recently had Big Employment Drama (http://www.librarything.com/blog/2007/01/thanks-to-chris.php), so I'm not sure how long it will be before we see the promised author system overhaul (and I notice that no one has said Unicode would be fixed in the overhaul).
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Date: 2007-01-27 01:31 pm (UTC)I've found that (usually) you can at least hang on to a user-provided cover after you've severed your ties to everyone else -- provided that you add the cover first, before you do entry cleanups and suchlike.
Not sure what to make of that Chris thing. Nervous-making to see a database site discard its database admin w/o any replacement in view. Odd. Particularly the dude who'd fixed so much that was broken -- from my perspective, anyway. My impression is that he had a Wow! Huge! Massive! Impact on a relatively small population (foreign lang users), but the population at large didn't see/experience a viseral benefit along that line.
the promised author system overhaul
Gah. Lesson of the past: Grab catalog backups omg!
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Date: 2007-01-27 08:13 pm (UTC)I just use LT for inventory at this point, too, and as a site to link to when making recommendations. For that it's handy.
Too bad to hear about the Employment Drama. Sometimes these start-ups work an awful lot like clubs in junior high.
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Date: 2007-01-29 01:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-29 04:37 pm (UTC)I'm not sure I care all that much about the cataloging/inventory. If I'm putting things where they belong, I can always just go look on a shelf to see what I have and I collect very few series so it's easy to remember ...
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Date: 2007-01-29 04:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-29 06:56 pm (UTC)Ah, true. I suppose I overlook that feature because it's my minimal requirement for LT to be a useful inventory site. If LT weren't autopopulating bibliographic data based on ISBNs, I would build my own db.
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Date: 2007-01-27 01:12 pm (UTC)Mm, I used to nurse a few very faint hopes in that direction, but I've since moved on. It's just not going to happen, and this is life, etc. :P
Inventory is all I really want from that site. That is, yes, it _would_ be nice if those entries behaved like the other entries, but I don't view it as a necessity for essential function.
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Date: 2007-01-27 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-29 01:31 am (UTC)So if 2 worked properly, you'd be able to see who all else has the same books/manga, in the original and/or in translation. You'd also be able to pull up author pages and see what else by that author is hanging around. Right now, you can't unless the language uses a roman character set. So for non-English and/or non-European works, it's just a personal cataloging site; for that purpose it works fine now.
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Date: 2007-01-29 04:41 pm (UTC)Do check out that link to the ancient Chinese group. They have all kinds of fun in there, classical chinese poetry puzzles and comments on the relationship between hanzi and kanji, etc. Worth browsing a bit to see if it interests you.
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Date: 2007-01-29 04:52 pm (UTC)I really should stop hanging out with random (Chinese) literature majors, it causes no end of knowledge envy.