Personal Library
To my new followers …
I see I’ve picked up a number of new followers since I started sprucing up this blog last month: First of all: Welcome! Up until mid-July 2020, this used to be my backup blog for my online activity, most of which primarily happened on a book blogging site called BookLikes. That website, alas, took a […]
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Work-Around for “Date Read” / “End Reading” Setting
As Moonlight Reader and Darth Pony Pedant noted, there’s a bug in the system that currently doesn’t let you record any reading end dates beyond 2019 (i.e., from Jan. 1, 2020 onwards). This is systemic, i.e. will have to be fixed by BookLikes or their outsourced helpers, HOWEVER, for the time being here’s an easy […]
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My Lost pre-U.S.-Sojourn Library
24 Festive Tasks: Door 7 – International Day for Tolerance: Task 3 The French expression for tolerance towards others is “laisser faire, laisser aller” (roughly: “let them do as they want, let it go”). Have you ever “let go” a book (e.g., given it away or decided not to yield to the temptation to buy […]
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Houston, we had a problem …
… and it was called books. Stacks of unsorted books, to be precise. Three years’ worth of stacks of unsorted books, to be even more precise. Now, even back in 2015, after the last major overhaul of my bookshelves, those were already looking like this: … in other words, no room to spare in the […]
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