Hi Dean,

You have a lonely copy of Numerical Recipes in C because you list Flannery as the author instead of William H. Press (they are both authors but, on my edition at least, Press is listed first). If you changed the author you should be able to combine it with the rest. Alternatively, if you added an ISBN to your record that might make it combinable without changing the author. Thanks.

posted by jjwilson61 at 11:56 am (EST) on Aug 14, 2007

Hi dean,

Can you tell me what Vigilante - 21st Century is about, if you happen to recall?

Thanks,

bt

posted by bluetyson at 9:13 am (EST) on Apr 4, 2007

The Library of Congress identifies your Michael Lewis of "England's sea officers" as Michael Arthur Lewis.
If you edit yours to Lewis, Michael Arthur, then it would be pulled out of the overpopulated Michael Lewis page.

posted by DromJohn at 7:55 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2007

What would it take to inherit your language/linguistics collection? I'm drooling!

posted by stujay at 7:34 am (EST) on Oct 21, 2006

What would it take to inherit your language/linguistics collection? I'm drooling!

posted by stujay at 7:14 am (EST) on Oct 21, 2006

What would it take to inherit your language book collection?

posted by stujay at 7:11 am (EST) on Oct 21, 2006

What would it take to inherit your language book collection?

posted by stujay at 7:08 am (EST) on Oct 21, 2006

Yes, mine does have the ISBN, but for some reason, the program wants to put them together.

posted by gilroy at 8:25 pm (EST) on Oct 11, 2006

It seems you are the only other person who has 'The egg shaped thing'. More people should read Christopher Hodder Williams!

posted by nearasyouget at 4:13 pm (EST) on Sep 27, 2006

Well, your book "The Man Who Hunted Jack the Ripper" seems to have the same ISBN as my "Savor Maryland's Flavor" cookbook. So that is making the two unlikely books merge as if they were one book.

posted by gilroy at 7:34 am (EST) on Sep 17, 2006

I thought I was the only one on the planet with a copy of Yobgorgle! But I see we share the same taste is some mysteries as well.

Cool!

posted by cmbohn at 1:41 am (EST) on Sep 8, 2006

Even though I only have about 150 of my 1,000 or so books up here so far, you already match me on an even dozen, way more than anyone else. Given the number of books you have, that wouldn't be odd, except we're hitting on weird topics like conspiracy, brain function, and magic. Throw in the fact that I used to be the editor of INFO, a magazine for Commodore 64 and Amiga users, and it gets just plain strange. :)

posted by airship at 3:17 pm (EST) on Jul 5, 2006

FYI ... I've downloaded the cover image for Book of Garlic, just in case you're interested. Happy reading! Susan

posted by creativitylives at 4:16 pm (EST) on Jul 1, 2006

Yikes! I am unworthy! As a librarian, I don't believe I can ever have too many books. You have taken my belief to new heights!

posted by OzzieJello at 7:28 pm (EST) on Jun 16, 2006

Was puttering through my list of books and noticed one of yours seems to be merging with one of mine. But the weird part is mine is a cookbook, yours is a non fiction on Jack the Ripper. Is this a glitch we need to report to Tim?

posted by gilroy at 6:56 am (EST) on Apr 30, 2006

Jeesh! Amazing collection; I'm curious (like the other posters) how you store / display / manage them all. Do you have shelves through the house, or a "library" per se (in its own room or rooms), or what? :)

posted by timothylord at 1:30 pm (EST) on Apr 23, 2006

Your wife has more? Wow. Whoever you bought bookshelves from would have been a happy retailer!

posted by bluetyson at 1:22 am (EST) on Jan 13, 2006

Hi, I would like to know how did you put your "Random books" widget into your profile. Thank you

posted by Moloch at 8:50 am (EST) on Jan 9, 2006

You're the only with 'sfbooks' as tag. Other users have 'sf' or 'science fiction'.
What to do about it ?

posted by jkd1 at 11:53 am (EST) on Nov 15, 2005

No wonder we have so many books in common - I think you have more books than a library - where do you fit it all? Do you live in a house of many rooms? - I thought I had a half decent collection of books until I found this site, and even though I have yet to finish cataloguing my books, I will be nowhere near those like you whose collections are in the thousands .... I am not worthy !

posted by Eric_the_Hamster at 8:42 am (EST) on Oct 12, 2005

Apparently science fiction is a strong correlation coefficient.

posted by kencf at 1:04 am (EST) on Oct 8, 2005

No insult intended! We are just jealous! Until this list, we did not know of anyone who was even close to the number of books we have, but it seems there are quite a few. We don't expect to stay third for much longer. What data base do you use besides this one? I started to use Microsoft Access, but it was laborious! This is much easier and more comprehensive.

-Jim

posted by rmckeown at 6:47 pm (EST) on Oct 7, 2005

Wow! I bow before you! :-)

posted by suzilem at 7:27 am (EST) on Oct 6, 2005

May I ask, how have you managed to put so many books up so quickly? Oh, and how do you house such a magnificent collection? :)

posted by flexnib at 7:21 pm (EST) on Oct 5, 2005

You have quite the collection! And I'm just looking at the fantasy and sci fi books we have in common.

posted by lisana at 7:04 pm (EST) on Oct 5, 2005