This week’s question from the Boston Bibliophile: Legacy libraries. With which legacy libraries do you share books? Tell us a little about a couple of them and what you share. Marie also says: what other topics would you like me to cover in these questions? I’m happy to take suggestions and give credit (and links) to those who suggest questions I end up using. This is for all of us, after all!
What’s a Legacy Library and where do you find it? From your LibraryThing home page, click the blue “statistics” menu at the top, then click “legacy libraries” to find “the personal libraries of famous readers, entered by LibraryThing members from the I See Dead People’s Books group.”
After weeding out the duplicates, I see interesting shared libraries with Carl Sandberg, Sylvia Plath, Tupac Shakur and Ernest Hemingway.
Sylvia Plath and I share 6 out of her 396 books listed:
Of these six, I could pick up any of themand read them again at any time (except The Sun Also Rises and Moby Dickwhich wouldn’t be at the top of my list 
) –great books! Hmm, I’m not thinking I have too much else in common with Sylvia Plath (although we do share a home state), but I like her taste in books!
I’m going to think of a Tuesday Thingers topic for Marie; we’ve been doing this for almost six months, I’m sure she’d like some input. If each of us shares just one idea for a topic, we’ll have many more months of Tuesday Thingers discussions.
I have a postscript to last week’s question about series. In a separate post I asked what is a series? and got quite a variety of answers. I turned to Abby at LT for the official LT definition, check the update at this post to see what she had to say.
I had to search for the Legacy Libraries this morning, but did find it. Sadly, I don’t share much with any of the libraries.
Thanks Dawn for telling me how to find out about my legacy libraries. If you hadn’t, I wouldn’t have been able to answer the question this morning. I will check out the official series answer from Abby.
I enjoyed seeing the books you shared – I’m going to have to see if I can get my hands on a few of them.
Wow – I’ve just started entering my books as I just learned about this part of the site this morning! I’ve got 2 with Marilyn Monroe and 6 with Ernest Hemingway!
This was fun – to see the rest of my list: http://wendisbookcorner.blogspot.com/2008/10/tuesday-thingers_28.html
Dawn, you share more with the Legacy Libraries than I do. I’m kind of embarrassed by how few I had but I do think there were some I missed, like a few Austen works.
I think I’ll go ahead and set up a library for ER. I paged quickly through two books I have about her – one a biography and the other one of her three (I think) autobiographies. I found three books mentioned there. So that’s enough to start with.
Maybe we could work on populating her Legacy Library together. At this point I’m at a loss for how to go about it – a Google search turned up nothing.
Kathy – maybe as the project grows you’ll find a more interesting match.
Michele – I knew I had stumbled across it at one point; fortunately I was able to get back there for this question!
Wendi – a lot of people have Ernest Hemingway overlaps
Shana – great idea! Maybe an ER historian would be able to help?