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Please take your lovely poetry to the creative convention poetry thread that i wish I could post extremely mean things in
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CestMoi posted:Please take your lovely poetry to the creative convention poetry thread that i wish I could post extremely mean things in Please take your lovely poetry to the creative convention poetry thread that i wish I could post ex- tremely mean things in
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Feb 18, 2018 02:06
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I was put in charge of my grandfather's extensive library and would like to catalogue it. So I am looking for an app to scan isbn numbers and a library management program. A bonus would be if the program could automatically detect rare books (but not necessary, it's just that we won't be able to keep everything and it would be a shame to give away something special). There was talk about cataloging a couple of pages ago and I was hoping to get some input from people with experience, thanks!
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Feb 18, 2018 08:38
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The goodreads app can scan ISBNs & such, and you can export your books to csv via the website. I suppose you can then try using the ISBNs in various book searches to see if any are fetching high prices? Random google hit: http://www.bookfinder4u.com/multi_isbns.html That said, ISBNs weren't introduced until 1970 so possibly a lot of the books won't have them if the collection is old.
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Feb 18, 2018 11:17
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CestMoi posted:Please take your lovely poetry to the creative convention poetry thread that i wish I could post extremely mean things in What would you put forward as good poetry? Myself, I like Elizabeth Bishop. At the Fishhouses Although it is a cold evening, down by one of the fishhouses an old man sits netting, his net, in the gloaming almost invisible, a dark purple-brown, and his shuttle worn and polished. The air smells so strong of codfish it makes one’s nose run and one’s eyes water. The five fishhouses have steeply peaked roofs and narrow, cleated gangplanks slant up to storerooms in the gables for the wheelbarrows to be pushed up and down on. All is silver: the heavy surface of the sea, swelling slowly as if considering spilling over, is opaque, but the silver of the benches, the lobster pots, and masts, scattered among the wild jagged rocks, is of an apparent translucence like the small old buildings with an emerald moss growing on their shoreward walls. The big fish tubs are completely lined with layers of beautiful herring scales and the wheelbarrows are similarly plastered with creamy iridescent coats of mail, with small iridescent flies crawling on them. Up on the little slope behind the houses, set in the sparse bright sprinkle of grass, is an ancient wooden capstan, cracked, with two long bleached handles and some melancholy stains, like dried blood, where the ironwork has rusted. The old man accepts a Lucky Strike. He was a friend of my grandfather. We talk of the decline in the population and of codfish and herring while he waits for a herring boat to come in. There are sequins on his vest and on his thumb. He has scraped the scales, the principal beauty, from unnumbered fish with that black old knife, the blade of which is almost worn away. Down at the water’s edge, at the place where they haul up the boats, up the long ramp descending into the water, thin silver tree trunks are laid horizontally across the gray stones, down and down at intervals of four or five feet. Cold dark deep and absolutely clear, element bearable to no mortal, to fish and to seals . . . One seal particularly I have seen here evening after evening. He was curious about me. He was interested in music; like me a believer in total immersion, so I used to sing him Baptist hymns. I also sang “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.” He stood up in the water and regarded me steadily, moving his head a little. Then he would disappear, then suddenly emerge almost in the same spot, with a sort of shrug as if it were against his better judgment. Cold dark deep and absolutely clear, the clear gray icy water . . . Back, behind us, the dignified tall firs begin. Bluish, associating with their shadows, a million Christmas trees stand waiting for Christmas. The water seems suspended above the rounded gray and blue-gray stones. I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same, slightly, indifferently swinging above the stones, icily free above the stones, above the stones and then the world. If you should dip your hand in, your wrist would ache immediately, your bones would begin to ache and your hand would burn as if the water were a transmutation of fire that feeds on stones and burns with a dark gray flame. If you tasted it, it would first taste bitter, then briny, then surely burn your tongue. It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.
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Feb 18, 2018 15:11
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are of any of Iris Murdoch's other novels as strange and haunting and excellent as The Unicorn?
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Feb 19, 2018 06:01
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true.spoon posted:I was put in charge of my grandfather's extensive library and would like to catalogue it. So I am looking for an app to scan isbn numbers and a library management program. A bonus would be if the program could automatically detect rare books (but not necessary, it's just that we won't be able to keep everything and it would be a shame to give away something special). The goodreads app will catalog everything with an ISBN, but it's unlikely that it will catch rare books or collectibles. ISBN's won't tell you what printing a book is, and older books won't have ISBNs. Look on the inside front cover page of each book and you should see a statement of which printing and edition the book is; if it's a first edition it'll say so right up front.
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Feb 19, 2018 08:00
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chernobyl kinsman posted:are of any of Iris Murdoch's other novels as strange and haunting and excellent as The Unicorn? I only read The Sea, The Sea and it was very good
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Feb 19, 2018 08:45
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whatevz fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Apr 25, 2022 |
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Feb 19, 2018 21:30
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bertholt brecht was a decent poet imo
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Feb 20, 2018 01:16
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finnegans wake big old poem imo
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Feb 20, 2018 01:22
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but are any of the characters likeable?
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Feb 20, 2018 09:03
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And is the plot any good? (No spoilers please)
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Feb 20, 2018 10:25
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how many dragons?
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Feb 20, 2018 10:57
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Is there a superior edition/translation of The Count of Monte-Cristo?
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Feb 20, 2018 18:56
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Solitair posted:Is there a superior edition/translation of The Count of Monte-Cristo? https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...ut_7aKmZTy1lq4k
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Feb 20, 2018 19:14
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Feb 20, 2018 19:28
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I got roundly mocked by family members for trying to get people to watch the Wishbone of Hound of the Baskervilles recently. Solitair posted:Is there a superior edition/translation of The Count of Monte-Cristo? My understanding is that only the modern Robin Buss translation contains the various parts that were cut from prior english translations as "too scandalous," -- drug use and so forth.
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Feb 20, 2018 20:10
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The wishbone version of Goethe's Faust will always be the funniest to me
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Feb 20, 2018 21:59
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I got roundly mocked by family members for trying to get people to watch the Wishbone of Hound of the Baskervilles recently. Thanks. I can barely remember Wishbone. I think I caught a minute or two of the Don Quixote episode as a kid?
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Feb 20, 2018 22:30
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Solitair posted:
That's me too, I'd forgotten about it and saw a meme and was all "oh poo poo! I could watch that RIGHT NOW if i wanted! I'm a grown rear end adult!" and then people made fun of me for being an adult who wanted to watch children's shows
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Feb 20, 2018 22:33
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:That's me too, I'd forgotten about it and saw a meme and was all "oh poo poo! I could watch that RIGHT NOW if i wanted! I'm a grown rear end adult!" and then people made fun of me for being an adult who wanted to watch children's shows This one doesn't even have an easily mockable fandom or anything.
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Feb 20, 2018 22:34
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bought Walter Benjamin’s Passages plus collected writing yesterday. there’s a short piece/note from the late 20's where he speaks fondly of Hamsun, but I can’t help but feel that he’d probably revise his opinion on Hamsun had he lived a few more years past 1940.
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Feb 21, 2018 12:21
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Krankenstyle posted:The goodreads app can scan ISBNs & such, and you can export your books to csv via the website. Hieronymous Alloy posted:The goodreads app will catalog everything with an ISBN, but it's unlikely that it will catch rare books or collectibles. ISBN's won't tell you what printing a book is, and older books won't have ISBNs. It does not seem that there are real hidden treasures. My grandfather gave me personally a first edition he is very proud of (Dahn - Kampf um Rom) but beyond the emotional value it is worthless in every aspect (check out Professorenroman if you can read German, it's kind of hilarious). At the very least sorting is made easier by the fact that a substantial part of the library consists of books about war machines of all kind and about world war 2 in general. Some nice finds: Complete Goethe, Puschkin, Tolstoi, Balzac, Zola.
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Feb 21, 2018 22:19
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If there was Wishbone on Lolita, who would Wishbone play?
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Feb 22, 2018 00:56
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Is that Dean Martin
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Feb 22, 2018 05:19
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WatermelonGun posted:Is that Dean Martin 
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Feb 22, 2018 05:24
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pospysyl posted:If there was Wishbone on Lolita, who would Wishbone play? Nabokov.
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Feb 22, 2018 05:24
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Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Wishbone había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hueso.
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Feb 22, 2018 05:46
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Increible el primer animal que sono con otro animal en una programa por PBS.
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Feb 22, 2018 15:00
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Today's work highlight: changing a reference to "the literature of H. P. Lovecraft" to "the fiction of H. P. Lovecraft".
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Feb 22, 2018 16:04
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Increible el primer animal que sono con otro animal en una programa por PBS. wasn't there a magical realism thread in tbb? i seem to remember that there was one. but looking back i saw that the pale fire botm only got to 2 pages and it made me upset, so.
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Feb 23, 2018 05:29
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The magic realism thread is just the fantasy thread for pretentious hipsters
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Feb 23, 2018 06:07
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CestMoi posted:The magic realism thread is just the fantasy thread for pretentious hipsters Thank you.
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Feb 23, 2018 06:14
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Pretentious hipsters, the worst kind!
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Feb 23, 2018 11:43
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Krankenstyle posted:poo poo, anything can hit you in the gut if youre in the right/wrong headspace at the moment. no shame imo This post hit me in the funny feels
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Feb 24, 2018 17:13
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chernobyl kinsman posted:Pride and Prejudice at 200: is it time for a video game?
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Feb 26, 2018 17:27
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Just play Crusader Kings 2 you hack journos.
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Feb 26, 2018 17:33
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"Regency England is a Death Star of class" loving end me
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Feb 26, 2018 17:34
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is there any thinkpiece topic more tiresome than "if you think about it, X is Y"
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