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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[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

LOL! I would have thought it was entering ISBNs that was the big time saver in handling Japanese books. For Japanese covers, I've taken to depending on jpqueen's web site. I'd find LT a lot more useful if they had a Chinese library data source so I could enter ISBNs, but their focus is clealy on European languages and I haven't gotten a library contact for them.

[mangaroo.livejournal.com]

I would have thought it was entering ISBNs that was the big time saver in handling Japanese books.

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.