40,000 books ! {plus SciFi vs Romance DE duel}

Post by **laurie** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:58 pm

It is a good poem, Ghostie, but it's not the source for my sig. My education was/is a tad more classical:

[quote]The Latin phrase "Amor Vincit Omnia" translates as â€œlove conquers all,â€

daetara · Post by **daetara** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:37 pm

i have a small list of books that don't seem to be in the database...you might call most of them "fantasy" rather than sci-fi, but at least they're not romance.

should i give them to someone? i don't want to mess things up by tagging them the wrong genre...

Post by **Darb** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:45 pm

Greetings and welcome aboard !

Feel free to list the titles and authors here, or if you wish you can use the ":Add a Book:" applet to generate database submissions.

Post by **Kvetch** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:48 pm

Just to check: Daetara, you are talking about the IBDoF database, not the IBList one, right? (since two databases share the discussion site, confusion is easy)

Anyway, welcome!

daetara · Post by **daetara** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:54 pm

well, i don't know the answer to that question, but when i clicked on :List Authors: and went from there i didn't see them. does that help?

Post by **Kvetch** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:57 pm

If you were clicking :List Authors:, you were looking at the IBDoF database.

Please do go ahead and submit the missing authors!

daetara · Post by **daetara** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:09 pm

the only stumbling block for me here is that i have to put in genre...i don't really know where the line between fantasy and sci-fi is. i guess if someone's reviewing it regardless, it will get fixed?

Post by **raptor_bob** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:26 pm

Yuppers, it'll get reviewed

and for a guide on the genre issue, check out the genre listing page, it comes with descriptions for most of the genres in use on the IBDoF

Post by **Darb** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:38 pm

Ugh ... Laurie laid another 154 books of romantic smackdown on the SciFi boys.

Set phasers to whimper !

Post by **wolfspirit** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:41 pm

Brad wrote:Ugh ... Laurie laid another 154 books of romantic smackdown on us, WS.

Set phasers to whimper !

Behind the times, Brad

Yeah, the stuff I'm dealing with now is largely genre normal (1:1:1:1 for Romance:Scifi:Fantasy:Humor), so I'm not going to be a massive help anytime soon.

Me & raptor_bob are trying to cover two publishing companies that put out about 40 books a month each, and still finish their back catalogs in a reasonable timeframe. So until I finish this back catalog (I'm ~5% done, about 1200 books to go, give or take a couple hundred), I won't be putting much in for sci-fi only.

wolfspirit

daetara · Post by **daetara** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:57 pm

i just put in 14 fantasy and 2 sci-fi...according to the definitions, i apparently read fantasy almost exclusively. but i'll keep looking, see what i can find.

Post by **StefanY** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:00 pm

I'll get to work on adding those. Thanks for submitting them.

Stefan

Kilgore Trout · Post by **Kilgore Trout** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:27 pm

My efforts have little agenda as to genre, but I've been adding more to Romance than to SF, for three reasons:

-- The SF in my own collection was mostly already in the database, whereas a smaller percentage of my wife's Romance was already input.

-- The little library at work has more Romance than SF.

-- My main thrust has been new releases, and it seems new Romance is far more visible at Amazon than new SF.

That said, if the SF effort were to become a Dogs of War project, it would be difficult for me to stay genre-neutral.

Post by **Darb** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:32 pm

KT: Perhaps this will help motivate you ?

/me wanders off to bury a few Star Trek bones into the database ...

Kilgore Trout · Post by **Kilgore Trout** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:52 pm

Brad: Is it any wonder that this, my namesake's most famous novel, has a dog on the cover?

(And yes it IS in the IBDoF -- under Phillip JosÃ© Farmer.)

Post by **Darb** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:14 pm

Oh the shame !

Romance = 4176
SciFi = 4025

Post by **laurie** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:45 pm

You guys are such whiners.

Post by **Darb** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:56 pm

/~ Laurie: I'm just hamming it up in order to help lure people into joining the DE fray. Remember the ol "The Perils of Pauline" silent B&W flicks ? Same basic idea. ~/

Post by **laurie** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:25 pm

Sure, Brad ......

daetara · Post by **daetara** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:04 pm

StefanY wrote:I'll get to work on adding those. Thanks for submitting them.

Stefan

hmmm... i thought i put in series names for those r.a. salvatore ones, but they say "unknown." i found the rest of the ones in those serieses and i'm going to put them in shortly.

Post by **laurie** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:42 pm

daetara wrote:
StefanY wrote:I'll get to work on adding those. Thanks for submitting them.

Stefan
hmmm... i thought i put in series names for those r.a. salvatore ones, but they say "unknown." i found the rest of the ones in those serieses and i'm going to put them in shortly.

Series are listed as "unknown" until a series ID # is assigned - which takes a little while.

daetara · Post by **daetara** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 4:14 pm

ah...thanks. i thought maybe i'd done something wrong.

Post by **raptor_bob** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:14 am

Romance ... 4327
Sci-Fi ... 4063

lol @ brad ... and good going laurie

looks like your in the lead for the while.

Post by **laurie** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 4:29 pm

More to come, Grasshopper.

Post by **wolfspirit** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:16 pm

Romance -- 4327
Sci-fi -- 4190

Ok, Brad et al. Next time I go camping, I don't expect to see laurie gain a couple of hundred on us again. My fingers now hurt, but also, on the bright side, the books with no genre is under 4000 now.

and jaurie, I passed by a number of romance sounding books in the titles, so don't tell me you have none of tehm for the picking.

wolfspirit