Marie’s question today is: Members who have your books. Do you ever look at this feature? Do you use it to make LT friends, or compare notes? There are three tabs- weighted, raw, and recent. “Weighted,” which means “weighted by book obscurity and library size” is probably the least self-explanatory of the three, whereas “raw” and “recent” are more so. Do you get any kind of use out of this feature?
My answer: I have looked at it, and wondered what those three tabs mean. I’m sorry Marie but I still don’t understand them apart from “recent”. What is “raw”? I don’t “cook” my books! When you hover over the tab it reads “raw overlap” which is equally incomprehensible to me. So, no I have never used this feature – until now, just to try to work it out. When I’ve added a book and seen that there are only a few others who have copies I’ve looked a few times to see who they are and what other books they have.
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I have the same problem with understanding the tabs – “raw” sounds like something to eat, not to read. It was fun to look at a few of the libraries similar to mine, but I don’t think it really told me much except that those members have very diverse collections just as I do.
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Oh yeah, LT seems to have its own language sometimes – but it’s fun trying to figure everything out!
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raw overlap just means who-has-what-books-you-have with no other filters or factors built into the results, whereas the others emphasize recent books and obscure books respectively. hope that helps 🙂
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I absolutely love it when only 1 or 2 people have a book that I’ve added, I always take a look through their libraries to figure why this happens (I’m weird like that)
Weighted is the tab I prefer to look at.
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JLS I agree it doesn’t tell you very much.
Lenore – certainly a different language!
Marie – thank you.
Joanne, it is intriguing to check who has the only other copy of a book and I wonder why no one else has.
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