Mmmmm, books part 2

[teenygozer]

You know what's cool? Having books on Library Thing where you are the only person who has that book.

I seem to have cornered the market in snarky Alice in Wonderland satire of a bygone age:

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[chelseagirl]

I've read *about* at least the latter in an academic study.

You are a veritable rare books room.

[teenygozer]

Hee! I wondered what it would take to get you to post to my LJ! I figured Alice would do it, unless you were actually filtering me.

I don't remember where I got those, most probably Marchpane in London, but possibly savvy sniping on eBay. Have you been to Marchpane? Whenever I'm in London with Laurie, it's one of the first places we hit.

http://www.marchpane.com/

Last time I was there, they had a Dalek, a real one from the show, stuck in the corner.

[chelseagirl]

See, and I thought, hmm, she must not read *my* LJ; I was going on about LibraryThing a couple of years ago, when I first set mine up. ;-)

We haven't been to England in a few years now; essentially, we've realized we can't do any more trips funded by credit cards, so it may be a few years more before we get over again. Part of the deal w/marrying an Englishman was *supposed* to be regular access to . . . well . . . England. ;-) But then, M. was going to be a successful restauranteur, not a guy who does environmental work for a nonprofit (which, really I can't fault him on), and there were supposed to be full-time positions available in my field, instead of universities deciding to cut costs by depending on adjuncts. [As there are very few 19th century jobs again this year, I am starting career counseling soon; I have a great skill set and just have to figure out where else I can apply it.]

But, moaning set aside, this sounds *very* cool; I will have to check it out next time.

[teenygozer]

HAHAHA, no. Most of my flist has posted about LibraryThing at one time or another for the past few years; I only got interested because someone on my flist posted about Amazon throwing their weight around with the site, and the link happened to coincide with A) my being out of work and able to make time to shift through books and B) my desire to catalog, then dispose of, half my library. I have too many books, they're stacked on the floor, and I want to donate a good chunk of the ones that are not valuable, that I will not be reading again or can get an e-copy of if I did happen to want to read it. LibraryThing will be useful for the cataloging part

[ljs]

Cool! :-)

[teenygozer]

Yes, they were very snarky, politically speaking, back in the day! I also have a more recent satire, Alice in Bushland, but it's not nearly as sharp or clever.