LT

[mvrdrk]

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 ...

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[mikeneko.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's pretty much it. In theory, the site has two functions; 1) you can catalog your own books, and 2) see who else has those books.

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.