... and a decree went out from Fivemack, that all books were to be counted

[fivemack]

Hmm. I've noticed a few gaps in my bookcase, and I can't quite remember to whom I've lent what.

cartesiandaemon has my copies of "The Well of Ascension" and "The Hero of Ages"

ceb has the two Cat Valente books

pseudomonas has quite a lot of books and I didn't keep a record of exactly which; certainly includes "Red Seas Under Red Skies" and "Snake Agent".

Somebody must have my Sarah Monette books, but I'm not sure who.

I ought to lend hilarityallen "Dragonfly Falling", the second volume of "Empire in Black and Gold"

In the other direction, I have and have read naath's "Glorifying Terrorism" and despotliz's "The Graveyard Book" and "The Gone-Away World"; I have and have not read Jon Amery's "The Twilight Watch" and Liz's "The Fortress of Solitude".

If you have borrowed books from me, or have lent me books which aren't on my list, would you mind leaving a comment?

Comments

[aendr.livejournal.com]

I don't have any of your books, but I recommend LibraryThing as a way of identifying books you have and then, using the tags, tracking their lending out. With a barcode scanner, all modern books can be entered trivially and those with SBNs but without codes aren't too bad to enter either. We could also lend you our scanner for a bit if required (though not before mid July).

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

Oh, mild vexation: I am on LibraryThing already, both as tomwomack with 270 books and as fivemack with 24 books, hence the mild vexation. Not sure how to merge fivemack's collection into my own ...

[aendr.livejournal.com]

Well, I was on and Ganesh was on and we changed his to aegean and emailed them to ask how (explaining what we wanted) and they merged for us, very nicely and promptly too. They're jolly good.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

I have the Sarah Monette books. Also The Name of the Wind, and possibly something else I've forgotten.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes - Swordspoint and The Privilege of the Sword.

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

You can keep those two, if you want them, or if you give them back to me they'll probably go to Oxfam; I found them unexcitingly hard going. I suppose if I want Georgette Heyer there's an awful lot of actual Georgette Heyer, and I prefer real Regency to wizard-enhanced artificial Regency substitute.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

I didn't get very far into Swordspoint before I gave up, and I have so many other things to read it seems unlikely I will give it another go. I'll see if I can find an appreciative home for them.

We should probably do a swap back at some point - I don't think I'm going to read the Monettes, and I could do with The Graveyard Book back at some point.

[lnr]

Um, was the Niccolo Rising I mentioned in the other thread *not* one of yours then?

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=lnr_blair&deepsearch=niccolo+rising

If not I wonder who it came from?

I too have two librarything accounts, but since eleanorb only had 31 books in it it wasn't too hard to just add those to lnr_blair. I should get eleanorb closed really.

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

I suspect it probably is mine, it inspired the post but I forgot to mention it. I'll have to check; half my Dunnett is in one place and the other half in another, and my attitude to it is a bit ambivalent. Possibly I need to buy the rest of the series and then spend a week with few non-Dunnett distractions; it's one of those series where it's a lot easier to keep going than to start.

(I may be the only person who dropped out of the Patrick O'Brien series at book #11 or so)

[lnr]

Oh good, I'd hate to think someone else was cursing me for never returning books :)

I think I'll be happy to leave it with just this one book, unless it has a particularly cliffhangerish ending. I am enjoying it mostly, but I think I'm reading it a bit too quickly when a bit too tired, and finding some of it a bit hard to follow as a result.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

i should play with jack's openid-driven thingy for loan-keeping-track-of.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

other books you have lent me include river of gods and star fraction

[sonicdrift.livejournal.com]

Er, we had Un-LunDun. I can't remember if I gave it back to you or not.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I think that's accurate for me. (And I've finished the Mistborn sequels, thank you!)