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1Collectorator
Feb. 20, 2012, 12:23 pm

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2staffordcastle
Feb. 20, 2012, 1:13 pm

I do not support the library entry only restriction. By their nature, many ULTBs are not held by libraries. What is your rationale for requiring it?

3Collectorator
Feb. 20, 2012, 1:39 pm

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4Keeline
Feb. 20, 2012, 2:00 pm

We have tons of legitimate series books which were manual entry. Truly rare books will often not be in one of the sources LT allows. Series books are not always held in high regards in libraries and aren't always available. We own every book in our LT catalog. Most even have our own cover image. Are they not legitimate?

-Kim K

5Collectorator
Feb. 20, 2012, 2:10 pm

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6Collectorator
Feb. 20, 2012, 2:14 pm

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7PhaedraB
Feb. 20, 2012, 7:57 pm

I have some books that show as 2 copies not because I have 2 identical (which I do in one case, but that's one case) but because the exact same singleton is cataloged in both my library and in my husband's. That does not dilute the concept in my mind.

I do have a handful of manuscripts tagged ULTB, if that is offensive, I can remove them.

My rule of thumb is, would a library catalog it? In fact, some items ULTB items I've manually cataloged were then given to the library at UCSB, who then cataloged them. So if anyone else ever came up with a copy, they'd have a library source for it when I did not.

I don't get the private member problem. Anyone or multiple anyones could delete their copies, leaving yours unique. Vigilance is the only cure for that.

I'm also thinking that having too many rules and saying something must be fixed so only one copy shows on LT, and so on, does take some of the fun out of it.

8Collectorator
Feb. 25, 2012, 1:36 pm

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9Collectorator
Feb. 25, 2012, 3:53 pm

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10Jarandel
Bearbeitet: Feb. 25, 2012, 5:55 pm

>3 Collectorator: Many legitimate entries aren't from library sources, and a library entry can be easily faked should someone have the motivation to do so, just add whatever book from a library source then change all the fields to suit your own work, separate from whatever it was combined with and you've got the equivalent of a manual entry with a spurious library source.

>9 Collectorator: People outside the group must think the tag sounds "cool", slap it when they add a book and it appears to be unique, and never look back even if some check later or even right upon adding would have found other instances of the same work.

11Collectorator
Feb. 26, 2012, 12:01 am

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12marq
Feb. 26, 2012, 3:54 am

I have no problem with a more strict super ULTB tag but I agree that requiring that they be added from a library source would knock out a lot of legitimately "super" ULTBs.

9> when you say you want to make the tag more meaningful, can you elaborate? I am thinking that the tag is just used to call out that I am the only person (on LT) that has a particular work.

I have tagged everything where I appear to be the only owner as ULTB. That includes a lot of ephemera (like theatre programs), street directories, sheet music that may well only be ULTBs because no one else cares to add them.

(Although I occasionally have a book like http://www.librarything.com/work/10354372/summary/64049257 that shows it is owned by 2 people but I am the only one listed, so I continue to claim ULTB).

Examples that must be ULTBs like http://www.librarything.com/work/10542005/book/65798610 or http://www.librarything.com/work/11980733/book/65771485 I was only able to add manually.

13Collectorator
Feb. 26, 2012, 5:10 am

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14Collectorator
Bearbeitet: Feb. 26, 2012, 5:22 am

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15marq
Feb. 26, 2012, 6:58 am

Thanks!

When I add my books, I think they get added by default from amazon. How do you ensure that they are added from a library?

16Collectorator
Feb. 26, 2012, 7:05 am

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17marq
Feb. 26, 2012, 7:16 am

Thanks, I see. I will give that a go next time I add something.

18staffordcastle
Bearbeitet: Feb. 27, 2012, 1:48 pm

>9 Collectorator:
Collectorator, I noticed that the first time I looked at the list for ULTBs, and took steps to clean up.

At the time I entered the book, I was the only holder, but now another member has it. I removed my tag, but the book has stubbornly remained on the list, which I would consider to be a bug. Moreover, the record immediately changed to say that there were three holders instead of two, which at that time did not appear to be true.

ETA: The record now lists four holders, but says five people own it.

19Jarandel
Bearbeitet: Feb. 27, 2012, 3:15 pm

>18 staffordcastle: One of them probably has it private, whether the individual book or their whole collection.

20staffordcastle
Feb. 27, 2012, 3:36 pm

Jarandel, that may be true, but it is suspicious that the extra copy appeared at the exact moment that I removed my tag. What are the odds of that? Also, does not "private library" appear in the list when there are private holders of a book?

21reading_fox
Feb. 27, 2012, 3:46 pm

#20 - perhaps a BugCollecters post is in order? I've long abandonned that group, but I assume it's still going. Maybe see if you can replicate it first?

I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that the tag list is seldom updated - 3months+ for some of the Zeitgeist instances, and they are at the customer facing LT rather than an obscure tag list.

22staffordcastle
Feb. 27, 2012, 3:58 pm

reading_fox, you may be right, but I think I'll test it again before I set up a bug report. Also I would like to re-read the thread on Lists; I think Tim has recently said something about how often (or whether) they are updated, and whether books will drop off when they no longer qualify.

23Meredy
Feb. 27, 2012, 6:20 pm

I'm sorry not to have been tracking more closely, but I didn't realize there was a problem. How has the concept been polluted?

24Jarandel
Mrz. 3, 2012, 3:44 am

>23 Meredy: People outside the group using the tag "ultb" with whatever identical or different meaning they may attribute to it, who can't really be contacted easily should the tag no longer prove true for one/some of their book(s) and/or who may have a relatively lax interest in keeping their ultbs up to date.

25misericordia
Bearbeitet: Mrz. 14, 2012, 6:10 pm

It is the nature of tags to become somewhat polluted. My tag unique library thing book is another person universal little tight binding tag. Change to something else will not eliminate that effect. With tags there is always going to be some "pollution". Previously ULTB was "singleton" I imagine that tag is still out there.

The nature of any title being a unique book is never going to be stable. The first person to catalog the newest best seller can tag it ULTB. But, I really don't see that happening.

Besides that whole List thing is still under construction so I won't worry to much about it, for a while. I think it is more interesting to look at page 10 of the list. I mean "Modesty Blaise The Black Pearl And The Vikings" would seem to be Extra Super Unique Library Thing Book

http://www.librarything.com/list/246/all/Books-Tagged-ULTB

(But note, unique can be neither super or extra. But, that's someone else's rant on a different thread.)

If Library Thing is about meeting people with common books. ULTB is just about meeting people with uncommon books.

Good Discussion!

26Collectorator
Mrz. 14, 2012, 9:49 pm

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27Collectorator
Mrz. 15, 2012, 1:16 am

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28misericordia
Mrz. 15, 2012, 5:52 pm

Bear Trouble, that is just classic!

29Collectorator
Mrz. 16, 2012, 11:41 pm

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30marq
Mrz. 22, 2012, 9:30 am

One of my ULTBs just got knocked off so I dutifully removed the tag, however it still shows as ULTB in the work tag list.

http://www.librarything.com/work/10473493

Maybe it takes a while to update. The other owner doesn't use the tag.

31staffordcastle
Mrz. 22, 2012, 7:27 pm

I took the ULTB tag off one of my books almost as soon as the list was created, but the book is still on the list, with more than one author. I don't think it updates at all.

32omargosh
Mrz. 23, 2012, 1:57 am

That kind of looks like this bug, but in reverse. Perhaps a bug report is in order?

33alco261
Mrz. 23, 2012, 8:20 am

>10 Jarandel: There's also the apparent fact that the system doesn't seem to always recognize a book as being listed in other libraries. When I added Best SF72 it came back as unique which I thought had to be wrong and it is. I went back and re-entered the book just to make sure I didn't have some easily overlooked mistake in the entry and it still came back unique.

I happened on this thread while looking over the general offerings this morning and I do have a question. This ULTB tag is this just a tag you enter when adding a book or is it something you check off on a drop down menu somewhere?

34reading_fox
Mrz. 23, 2012, 9:56 am

"This ULTB tag is this just a tag you enter when adding a book"

ALl tags are. There is no LT ability for 'preselecting' tags. TIM believes that tagging works best as an individual experience.

35Collectorator
Mrz. 23, 2012, 10:14 am

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36alco261
Bearbeitet: Mrz. 23, 2012, 10:35 am

>34 reading_fox:, 35 - thanks for the information. 35 - most of my entries are manual. I tried using the sources but more often than not the version the sources selected were not the version I had. After nutsing around trying to turn the source selected/downloaded into what I had I found it was just easier to enter everything by hand.

Edited: Also 35 - how do you go about combining what you have with others? I'd like to do that with the BestSF72 since when you look it up separately the version I have does not appear as a cover choice.

37Collectorator
Mrz. 23, 2012, 10:34 am

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38abbottthomas
Bearbeitet: Mrz. 23, 2012, 2:41 pm

>36 alco261: I take it back! Caught out by a colon.

39eromsted
Mrz. 23, 2012, 1:40 pm

>36 alco261:,38
Combined. See here.

40alco261
Mrz. 23, 2012, 3:54 pm

>39 eromsted: Thank you. I appreciate that.

41eromsted
Bearbeitet: Mrz. 23, 2012, 4:02 pm

>40 alco261:
No problem. If you ever need anything combined and can't do it yourself you can post a combination request in the Combiners! group. Look for the latest "Combining/Separating (Please Fix This Book!) Request Thread." Include links to the works that need combining.

42SaintSunniva
Mrz. 24, 2012, 12:13 am

>40 alco261:, 41 Even if you can combine it, there are people on LT who simply LOVE to fiddle with stuff like combining. I always bring my combining requests to them (the please fix this book thread).

Now, to look at my ULTBs, to root out the ones which are not. Quite a few don't have covers yet. Sigh. I'll work on it!

43marq
Mrz. 24, 2012, 12:38 am

I checked another of my books that used to be one of my ULTBs but I removed the tag after someone else added it (http://www.librarything.com/work/10404197). That was a few weeks ago and the ULTB tag has correctly disappeared from the work. I will keep an eye on http://www.librarything.com/work/10473493 expecting the tag to eventually go away.

44TLCrawford
Apr. 2, 2012, 9:37 am

Sunday I was adding some titles that I am using of a research project and thinking of this thread. I have changed the unique ebooks I have in my library to ultb-e, the ones in my wishlist to ultb-w, and the few I borrowed from the library or set free to ultb-sf. This leaves ultb for the physical books sitting on my shelves.

45Collectorator
Apr. 2, 2012, 10:42 am

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