Today's Question from Wendi's Book Corner: Have you explored the different styles? Have you customized any of the styles? If so, what are your favorite customized items (isbn, Dewey Decimal, Reviews, Book-Swap, etc)?Yes I have with positive and negative consequences. I prefer Style A but I have since forgotten exactly what this style sheet's fields are supposed to be since I customized it a few months ago. BEWARE...when I was customizing (by clicking the pencil at the end of Styles) somehow I accidently erased all the field definitions and I had to start from scratch. Now my Styles C, D, and E have no fields besides Shared and I cannot set them back to their defaults. I use only Style A and Style B with the difference being that Style A lists Reviews and Style B lists Entry Date, as well as Book Cover, Title, Author, Date, Tags, Rating and Shared.
I would say Reviews are my favourite customized item so far...I like being able to sort or search by author and see which books I have written reviews on and which I have not. I will have to check the other items that can be added. I seem to remember that we could only have 8 or 9 different fields per style sheet but now it looks like you can have up to 12.
I hope LibaryThing one day adds a feature to set style sheets back to defaults.
It's good to know that we have to be careful with the formatting. What a nightmare that would be to wipe the fields clear! I would be at a loss for what to do.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite fields are the language and awards fields.
I definitely panicked! I wil have to check out the awards field. Thanks for mentioning it.
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize that you couldn't switch the styles back to their defaults. I'm surprised they haven't added that feature. I almost cleared all mine the night I was playing with the styles.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by and participating in Thingers last week! I've got the post up for this week, have you seen the LT Helper Badges? ~ Wendi