Today’s question from Boston Bibliophile for this Tuesday’s Thingers for those who belong to LibraryThing (I guess) is about tags: do you tag? How do you tag? How do you feel about tagging- do you think it would be better to have standardized tags, like libraries have standardized subject headings, or do you like the individualized nature of tagging? What are your top 5 tags and what do they say about your collection or your reading habits?
Since I’ve just started with Library Thing (username: unfinishedperson), I don’t tag that extensively. I cataloged the books I have here with me (another 100 or more are at my parents and still some here to catalog) and broke them down into mostly fiction and nonfiction. I also have poetry set out as a tag and TBR, which comprise about 1/4 of the collection so far. That’s about all for the tags, except for the random mystery or western tags that I haven’t had a chance which to add. Personally, though, I wouldn’t mind standarized tagging like libraries.
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Over at Raidergirl3’s an adventure in reading, she’s having a hard time staying in one place with her reading going from Pakistan to Russia. I believe I’m in the same place where I was last week, in a Russian province in the nineteenth century, but now with a different story. I really haven’t gotten far enough to tell you what’s happening, but it’s with Sister Pelagia again (this time in Sister Pelagia and The Black Monk) and her creator Boris Akunin.
As the third part of the trilogy has yet to be written, I know that by next week, I still won’t be with Sister Pelagia and her investigations in Russia. While I don’t know where I will be yet, with all the different challenges, I’m in, including the Orbis Terrarum Challenge, there’s no telling where I might end up.
Tune in and see.
So where are you in your reading today?
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3 Comments
June 10, 2008 at 7:09 pm
i’m working my way through a israel and england with _the genizah at the house of shepher_. i’m almost done and almost disappointed to be almost done, i’m loving this book so much. but i do want to see how it ends. how is the akunin? i’m interested in reading this book myself. :-)
June 10, 2008 at 7:55 pm
I would love a standardized setting. :)
June 10, 2008 at 11:52 pm
I’m surprised at how many people want standardized tags. To each his own I suppose :)