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No News About Books
Sep. 19th, 2005 10:43 pmI don't quite have a complete topic to write about.
I learned about a cool website where you can catalog your books, did some research, and found another website where you can catalog your books, movies, music, and something else I can't remember. I still have to do more research on the second one so I get enough information to make a decision and then I'll let you in on the whole thing.
I went to look for this month's book for a book club and it's available at my local library. The call number has the prefix "POPULAR" which I don't know how to find in the library. Usually the chart explains. It explains stuff that starts with T and where oversized books are and where new books are. So I check a couple places on the sixth floor before discovering that "POPULAR" stands for "used to be at the UGL library, which no longer exists, so now it's supposed to be here, but it may not have been processed yet" and it also means "shelved on the ground floor in the 'New' section, and only loosely organized" (all the PS's are mixed together but kept separate from the PR's). I didn't find the book I wanted, but I did find another book that had sounded interesting to me when I first heard about it, but then I read the reviews that said, "You can't have a fiction book about people knitting! How boring can you get?" So I'd decided not to write it down and look for it, but here it was sitting right there, so I let it follow me home. I've only gotten halfway through it, which is far enough to see that it is neither a horrible book nor the best book ever, but which is not far enough to know how much I like it.
I looked on Amazon for reviews for the instructional design book I've been reading and saw that it had the maximum number of stars. Intriguing. Maybe they will explain what I am missing. Then I noticed that there was only one reader review. Still, how did this guy find everything the authors claimed was in that book? Then I noticed that this reviewer was one of the authors. Robin tells me he has great respect for authors who use their own names in reviews. Good point. Still I've decided I need to add a review when I finish the book. And after I've read some other books on the topic so I can make comparisons. But I'm not ready yet.
So maybe in some future entry you'll learn more about one or more of these topics. But not today.
I learned about a cool website where you can catalog your books, did some research, and found another website where you can catalog your books, movies, music, and something else I can't remember. I still have to do more research on the second one so I get enough information to make a decision and then I'll let you in on the whole thing.
I went to look for this month's book for a book club and it's available at my local library. The call number has the prefix "POPULAR" which I don't know how to find in the library. Usually the chart explains. It explains stuff that starts with T and where oversized books are and where new books are. So I check a couple places on the sixth floor before discovering that "POPULAR" stands for "used to be at the UGL library, which no longer exists, so now it's supposed to be here, but it may not have been processed yet" and it also means "shelved on the ground floor in the 'New' section, and only loosely organized" (all the PS's are mixed together but kept separate from the PR's). I didn't find the book I wanted, but I did find another book that had sounded interesting to me when I first heard about it, but then I read the reviews that said, "You can't have a fiction book about people knitting! How boring can you get?" So I'd decided not to write it down and look for it, but here it was sitting right there, so I let it follow me home. I've only gotten halfway through it, which is far enough to see that it is neither a horrible book nor the best book ever, but which is not far enough to know how much I like it.
I looked on Amazon for reviews for the instructional design book I've been reading and saw that it had the maximum number of stars. Intriguing. Maybe they will explain what I am missing. Then I noticed that there was only one reader review. Still, how did this guy find everything the authors claimed was in that book? Then I noticed that this reviewer was one of the authors. Robin tells me he has great respect for authors who use their own names in reviews. Good point. Still I've decided I need to add a review when I finish the book. And after I've read some other books on the topic so I can make comparisons. But I'm not ready yet.
So maybe in some future entry you'll learn more about one or more of these topics. But not today.