I always make it back for Tuesday Thingers!

See, I wrote a review and posted it! Trying to get back into a blog mindset. I was on some sort of non-reading sabbatical the last couple of weeks and I have discovered it is hard to write a review if you have not read the book. Not impossible, which I sometime think when I read reviews on Amazon...but before I descend into snarkiness, yet me consider this week's TT question from Wendi's Book Corner and try to get some reading in before getting back to my real life task. I have a table in the basement with lines of Nutcrackers soldiers that need help getting back into their boxes to await next Christmas and they ain't doing it themselves. Believe me...I have waited and waited but no, they just stand there staring their creepy wooden stare, with their creepy wooden smiles.

Today's question: A few weeks ago, someone told me about the Common Knowledge feature of Library Thing. The statistics and basic information can be found through a link at the bottom of any page. Currently there are over 869,540 facts that have been entered. How do they get there? We add them!

It took me a while to figure out that you enter them from the book or author page. When you have a book or author page pulled up, if you look at the left hand side, there are a bunch of links you can choose from. One of them is Common Knowledge. If you click the link, it will bring up a section where you can add facts.

Have you ever looked at the Common Knowledge page, or viewed the history of changes/additions? If you were aware of this section, have you added any information? Do you find this information useful or interesting?

Yes, to all the above! This is just the sort of think about Library Thing that I love, totally useless bits of information that I can contribute to myself. 870,100 facts as we speaks...I love it! Ok, they are not useless, just useless to the vast majority of people but either way, I still love them.

Now granted, as with many things, I had not looked at it too closely before and until now have stuck to the more basic entries. I have added to the series info, an author award here or there. But now I see this entry called Disambiguation Notices. I have no idea what that is but I want to! Is that one of those secret librarian things? I also see tremendous possibilities here for time wasting and anyone who knows me knows that I am able to waste vast amounts of time but I am always looking for new ideas.
So I have picked a category....Dedications...and decided that today I am going to go through every look in my library and look for a dedication and enter it in the Common Knowledge. Let's see...1100 books...6.5 minutes each...10 minute break to feed Kitty, my imaginary kitty...a nap of 86 minutes...7246 minutes...120.7666 hours....5.031944 days.
Hmmm...I may need another nap. And a snack. And to call in sick to work.
But it will be all so tidy when it is done and my inner OCD loves the tidy!

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