early start

[jaebility]

My internal clock is borked, so I've been up since five this morning. Rather than do anything productive before work, I've been playing around with my account at LibraryThing. I look organizing things, and I love organizing books more than anything else, so this is pretty much heaven in a webpage for me. What can I say, I'm a librarian at heart. Pete says it's a good way to prepare for school. He's a sweetheart; he could have told me I was dorky and obsessive, which I feel is closer to the truth.

I used my purchases from Amazon.com as a starting point, but those books only make up a small portion of my collection. It's hard deciding which books are mine, which are Pete's. For the most part, there's no distinguish between our books, since we read basically the same things and share bookshelves, but there are some books in our apartment that I've no interest in reading and I'm sure he feels the same.

Apparently there's a way to add a LibraryThing widget to DW - I'd love to have that on my journal.

Edit: Grrr. I had the widget working for, like, two minutes but now it's not pulling up my information. Damn you, technology!

Edit II: Well, I'm lost. Not only will the widget for my LibraryThing not load, but when I copied the code for suncat's widget, who was helping me, that one won't load either. This leads me to believe that my DW is interfering somehow, though I'll be damned if I can figure out how. So now I'm sad.

Comments

[baggyeyes]

I see the problem...your ampersand is replaced by the html equivalent.

The bottom is what I have, the top is what you have...hopefully the RTF Editor doesn't interfere! (Edit--it did!! the bugger!!)


<div class="ltwidget"><img src="http://www.librarything.com/gwidget/widget.php?view=jaest&amp;type=random&amp;width=180&amp;top=my%20books%20@%20LT&amp;bc=f7fcfe&amp;ac=000000&amp;tc=998a8e&amp;%20tbold=1&amp;tag=art"></div></div> </div> I altered the stuff below so you can just use it: <div class="ltwidget"> <img src="http://www.librarything.com/gwidget/widget.php?view=jaesti&type=random&width=205&top=My Beloved books&bc=ffffff&ac=292929&tc=272133&hc=262831&hbold=1&tbold=1"></div>

Yay!

[jaebility]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS thank you for your help! Is it obvious that I'm crap at this sort of stuff?

Re: Yay!

[baggyeyes]

Hey, don't put yourself down. It was the RTE that did it. It changed characters...even in my comment above.

Re: Yay!

[jaebility]

Hmm. Ok, color me confused. Now nothing's showing up for me. I shake my fist at you, widget.