Member: TomVeal

Thank you for adding my book Like Mayflies in a Stream. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Now I'm going to look at your "ancient world" listings to get ideas for my own reading.

posted by shaunaroberts at 7:56 pm (EST) on Dec 8, 2009

Wooowww! You have an amazing library! Really fascinating! I became your fan, just after I saw it! Very, very impressive. I´d like to visit your library some day! Congratulations, Tomveal!

posted by flaviosc at 11:59 am (EST) on Nov 10, 2009

I have uploaded a cover for The Sword of the Republic: The United States Army on the Frontier, 1783–1846 by Francis Paul Prucha. This is from the 1969 Macmillan hardcover edition.

posted by DVanderlinde at 5:18 pm (EST) on Oct 19, 2009

I just got Steve Hayward's new Reagan book and I saw that you are one of the few other LT-ers who have it. I am very much looking forward to reading it -- I've waited eight years!

posted by ggchickapee at 5:26 pm (EST) on Sep 4, 2009

Thank you re. Typepad.I'll have to spend some time and learn those tools.For those on the left, Obama is looking or rather sounding rather gassy-big on rhetoric,short on performance.Hate to say it but still callow.Comparing him at this point, in his limited career, to Lincoln or Roosevelt is mind boggling.Rick

posted by ficekrichard47 at 9:01 pm (EST) on Jul 11, 2009

Dear Tom Veal,Admire the appearance of your blog.Was it an onerous task setting it up.Did you use Typepad to construct it? Despite our contrary political positions-consider myself an ardent leftist( assuuming that this means anything these days given that Obama is described as leftist)-I see we share many of the same interests:Greek Orthodoxy,Clark Ashton Smith,etc,etc.Would like to comment and talk with you about some of your blog entries.Respectfully,Rick Ficek (ficekrichard47)

posted by ficekrichard47 at 12:19 pm (EST) on Jul 9, 2009

Question: How did you enjoy the biography of Brutus that is in your collection? Any good?

posted by MarcusBrutus at 7:33 pm (EST) on Mar 22, 2009

Heigh ho, me hearty! I see you have a copy of “A Pirate of Exquisite Mind” in your library. The Highly-Rated Book Group is boarding the Pirate Ship of William Dampier and heading off into the high seas for a rollicking Buccaneering Adventure in the wild blue yonder. We are splicing the main brace and trimming the sails to set off with the tide on 3rd November 2008. So don’t be a landlubber, come and swash some buckles by climbing on board at:

http://www.librarything.com/groups/apira...

-TT

posted by TheTortoise at 2:46 pm (EST) on Oct 9, 2008

Did you get a chance to read The Ice Maiden? What did you think?

Cemar/Connie

posted by cemar at 10:20 pm (EST) on Jul 13, 2008

Just tested. The "||The airs of Earth" sorts without ignoring The, just as we want it to.

posted by bnielsen at 6:27 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2008

Hi
No, I don't _think_ you can avoid LT ignoring "a, an, the" although it might be worth a try to see what "||the zero" sorts like. I personally think that || is an ugly hack. The library system I'm used to allows things like (bar=foo), i.e. show as bar, but sort as foo. Useful if you want two to sort as 2 or vice versa. (I wonder if || is meant only for barbars :-)

posted by bnielsen at 6:11 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2008

Hi TomVeal - Re: your suggestion # 3 in the "Ten Ways" topic - ability to easily get from page 1 to page 35 of your 74 page catalog --- I tested this on your catalog, which is much larger than mine, and it still seems to work. Next to the numbers, there's a link to "show all," and if you click it, it WILL show you the numbers to ALL the pages in your catalog. I was viewing 50 at a time so I got 148 pages when I checked your catalog, and the top bar became really tall and listed all the pages -- copied and pasted here, minus the formatting and html, of course:

1 – 50 of 7353 next page [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 (show all)

It's not pretty, but if you're pretty sure you want page 35 (or in this case, page 70?), you can get there. :-)

Marie

posted by HeathMochaFrost at 4:25 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2008

just letting you know your items 6 the 1/2 stars ARE easy. if you want say 3 1/2 stars click on the 4th star when it shows up click on the 4th star again and it will be 3 1/2 star rating.

and as bnielsen said, 8 if you add the double bar || in the title where you want alphabetization to start it should work for you.

posted by readafew at 1:21 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2008

I just browsed through your 10 ways of improving LT. #8 is already possible, sort of, by entering a || in the title.

posted by bnielsen at 1:02 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2008

Well, Tom... I suppose 24 of almost 7,000 means our libraries are identical, yes? I can't even begin to imagine how long it took you to do the tags alone! It's very cool to finally be able to browse the library I've been told about most of my life. Good luck getting them all in there.
Bryan

posted by MrGenre at 11:10 pm (EST) on Jan 26, 2008

You and I have or have read nine books which no one else has, which is a lot. The only other member having more has or has read Pastor's Lives of the Popes, and since there are 40 volumes of that he exceeds you in that category. But I will put you in Interesting Libraries as you have such. Incidentally, all the books I have listed I have read in full, which I suspect those who have 10000 or more books listed have not done.

posted by Schmerguls at 8:36 am (EST) on Nov 4, 2007

Tim -

It's very common for the first download to be extremely slow and the later ones to be faster, though that is not the invariable pattern.

posted by TomVeal at 7:10 pm (EST) on Sep 27, 2007

Wow. It's tough.

Tell me, are you seeing it go really slowly on the first query, but then speed up. I'm finding that with your data. But the underlying query is both well optimized and very very slow.

posted by timspalding at 6:51 pm (EST) on Sep 27, 2007

Hey. I'm watching queries go by slowly and I see you. I saw it hit 94 seconds!

I'm going to look over the query—which I caught while it was going—and see what I can do.

posted by timspalding at 6:45 pm (EST) on Sep 27, 2007

Glad to see you're back and adding books AND subjects with a vengeance. :-)

posted by ryn_books at 9:59 am (EST) on Jul 12, 2007

Hi, I noticed a few chess titles in your catalog and thought you might like to check my forum site out- www.ChessForums.org, we have a dedicated section to chess books and recommended reading you may be interested in, thanks, Greg

posted by gregfindley at 6:07 am (EST) on Jun 30, 2007

I have strayed into your library, attracted by your tag "ancient history", and I have found a lot of other good things.. A most interesting collection, if I may say so.

posted by Romanus at 3:23 pm (EST) on Mar 30, 2007