{"id":1092,"date":"2006-12-09T20:27:47","date_gmt":"2006-12-10T02:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/09\/library-thing\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T13:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T18:27:45","slug":"library-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/library-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t remember how long ago it was when I set up my Library Thing account, but I don’t think I visited it again until today. I do remember Zette<\/a> heroically loading her entire personal library into it (and became exhausted just thinking about the sheer volume of work that entailed for her and would entail for me). I also remember it was a post on Rosina Lippi’s page that prompted me to actually set up the account.<\/p>\n

In fact, it was Rosina’s page that prompted me to return today. Today, I spent some time wandering around, added several more of my books (mostly from this year’s reading list). I uploaded an image (a polar bear, of course), played with my profile, checked out a few groups, and, of course, had to blog about it. I haven’t gone so far as to commit to a lifetime membership yet, but I’m sure it’s only a matter of time. Without going through the hassles of checking ISBNs, I know I don’t have all the correct editions.<\/p>\n

Of the books I’ve loaded so far, I have two that nobody else lays claim to. I imagine this will be something to add to periodically as I get some downtime. About ten years ago, I cataloged my entire library into a flatfile database, but I’ve lost that long ago.<\/p>\n

I was looking for The Leadership Moment<\/em> last night and today. I know I have this book. I cannot find it. In the process of looking, I did find three (3!) copies of The Crisis of Islam<\/em>. The Leadership Moment<\/em>? It continues to elude me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t remember how long ago it was when I set up my Library Thing account, but I don’t think I visited it again until today. I do remember Zette heroically loading her entire personal library into it (and became exhausted just thinking about the sheer volume of work that …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16241,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/16241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}