Nothing but the effects of dust and vapor in the thin skin of air

So LJ is run by bastards, and IJ is eye-bleedingly ugly, and JournalFen is all about the comms. None of these are things that are making my happy right now.

LibraryThing pleases me, though.






It's quite sweet, really. You catalogue your own books, and you can get reccomendations based on them, see how many other people I have them (I am one of only two people to have Roman York, for example, and one of ten and a half thousand to the The Odyssey), read reviews and summaries, and generally just have mutual booksquee. Adding books can be a bit of a pain if, like me, you tend to buy second hand and from British publishers. But you can search by ISBN, which really helps (especially if you persuade Amazon to list everything you've ever purchased from them, which is why my list is mainly made up of course books). They've borrows CSS Zen Garden's idea for a hihgly customisable user interface, too, which is nice ^_^

Since the last time I posted this, the only two options that anyone voted for got exactly one and a half votes each, I thought I'd give it another go. The site is 90% finished now, lacking only a little content (a lot of thing I lost when my laptop got nicked, like 'The Fantasy of Drinking Coffee' and a lot of mag submissions). And a few things I haven't been arsed to convert into html yet, like Greenhelm extracts. That is the one and only thing I miss Microsfot Works for; they're 'save as html' actually did what it said, instead of Word's 'save as html so it looks just like a Word document and will take hours to reformat for a normal webpage'.

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