Archive for October, 2007
Book Networking
Amongst all the rest of social networking sites, to which I am moderately reluctant, we can even network thru books online.
What I am talking about is not new, as Shelfari exists already over a year, but I was out for the last year;) so it is new to me. Shelfari enables us to make our private online library with all the books we own, the books we want to own and the books we are reading. We can network thru these book lists with friends we invite or with other people profiling in Shelfari (depend of a level of a privacy we set).
I had a bit of a fun this afternoon and started to put the books I own on my virtual shelfs. Every book has a number and it tells how many other Shelfari readers chose that book to put on one of their lists. Even more, one click on that number shows all other readers of the book. You can then leave them a note. It is an amusing task this shelf business, I must admit. Tho I will not use it for networking. However, I am sure it will be useful to keep the record of all the book I want to buy and also a very nice image-like way of going thru the books I own. It suits nicely to my EndNote library.
P.S.
Speaking of books (and because I was absent and didn’t share this yet), I have to say that this year my best book buy was at AAPOR conference in Los Angeles in May. Wow, what a book selling system;). There was a great discount to start with, then after a while they reduced all the books to a half price (had I known that from the beginning!!) and finally, all the books without prices on them were sold for 10$. I got the Handbook of Ethnography this way, YAY!
So I bought a great amount of books and was seriously concerned with how to get them to the beautiful Slovenia. I managed to pack them all up but the luggage was heavy as hell. Luckily, my luggage got lost (first time and it transpired just the right time) so I got it delivered straight to my door;)))). I looove books!
By Nana | October 30, 2007 | Topics: Academic books, Books | 1 Comment »
Erm … I guess I am back;)
So … difficult to start after such a long period. Several times I promised several people to write and obviously I failed .. several times;). Then I was kind of determined I would post but I realised I forgot what was the URL of the log in site.
Today, I managed. Looking at Con Brio I immediately decided it needed a change … in its own time tho.
What has been going on lately or in the last few months? Nothing special, apart from a lot of travelling and work.
What else? Some minor details:
- I am cold all the time;
- I am still smitten by my two nephews;
- I still like tango, but my dancing record for the last months is quite poor I must admit;
- I managed to cure my internet obsession - considerably less online;
- I still miss Brix and I would like to have a new dog;
- I am still planning to do a postdoc in Belgium and England despite the fact I failed to write an application this year duo to many many other more serious issues going on in my life;)
- I am rubbish at running lately - well for the last eight months at least;
- I cut my hair.
I guess this is all for now ….
By Nana | October 23, 2007 | Topics: Blogging, General | 8 Comments »