too many options...Library Thinger makes my head spin..

yep, Tuesday again, so lets see what Wendi at Wendi's Book Corner has to tell us about a Library Thing feature...

This week we are going to take a peek at the styles of Your Library and how you can customize them. To see what I'm talking about, go to Library Thing, and click on the Your Library tab. Just under the tabs, you will find a section that says Styles, A, B, C, D, E, and then a symbol that looks like a pencil. If you click on the pencil, you can edit your styles, or the formatting of the pages that show your books' information....there are 44 different options you can select from!
Questions: Have you explored the different styles? Have you customized any of the styles? If so, what are your favorite customized items (isbn, Dewey Decimal, Reviews, Book-Swap, etc)?

Well, let me just say first of all that I am very glad that Wendi counted the number of options and saved me from having to do it.
OK, actually, most likely, I will still have to go over and count them again, just to be sure. That fact alone might give you an idea of my issue with all these choices. My inability to make choices, my ability to 'waste' endless amounts of time, my fixation to have things a certain way...oh, Library Thing, why do you do this to me?

Yes. I was aware of the styles, but I was not aware that there were quite as many options as there are. Since I joined LT a year or so ago, I have changed the style several time. At the moment, I have settled on style A. I must have covers...and they must be first. I am shallow, I know, but I like the pretty colored covers. From there, I like to keep it simple and not being a librarian type person, things like Dewey are wasted on me. ISBN, useful when you are looking for a book, but if they are in my library, obviously I already found them. Cover, author, title, ratings (which I fool with endlessly) tags, entry date and shared. I sort them by the entry date, the last entered at the top of the list and working down, a hundred books to a page, 12 pages.

But...but there is one more column and I can never decide what to put in it. Reviews? That would be lovely..if I had more of my library reviewed. But until I joined LT, I never reviewed a book, so I have at least 1000 that will most like never get a review written for. That is a lot of blank space in that column then. At the moment I have summary in there, before that I had publication info in there..before that I had subjects, but they tend to be very long, (My Antonia, the first book on my list has 20 subjects) and throw the whole look of the page off. LCCN, OCLC, BCID, LC classification...I have no idea what they are. If anyone knows, feel free to explain them to me please. So, for now, I will stick with something fairly useless that just looks nice.

It all just comes down to keeping track of what I own...and the pretty book covers!

.. and speaking of pretty,as usual, we will end with a picture of the cutest little doggie in the whole wide world, Bandit

"Bandit, get out of the flowers...good Bandit..."

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