Member: JBD1
CollectionsYour library (3,549), Borrowed &c. (50), Sterne (21), Bird & Bull Press (91), McLeod (14), Read as e-book (8), MassBooks (57), Removed (1,294), All collections (4,901)
Reviews2,127 reviews
TagsBooks on Books (1,547), American History (1,217), Fiction (1,137), Biography (829), Essays (637), Politics & Government (505), British History (409), Colonial History (357), Early Republic (357), Natural History (350) — see all tags
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About meI'm the Director of Communications and Outreach at Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. I also lead the charge on the Legacy Libraries and Libraries of Early America projects here at LibraryThing, so if you have any questions about those, or want to get involved, please let me know!
Major interests: history of the book in early America and Bermuda, colonial and early national college libraries, literary curiosities and biblio-hoaxes.
About my libraryMainly history, biography, books on books and natural history - but with some fiction (mainly historical fiction and bibliomysteries) and other things thrown in as well. I also collect rarer items.
Check out my Read in 2018 tag to see what I've been reading so far this year, or the Read in 2017 tag for last year's list.
GroupsAboard the Jolly Roger, American Civil War, American History, American Revolution & Founding Fathers History, Annus mirabilis, Antiquarian Books, Archivists on LibraryThing, Auchinleck, Benjamin Franklin's LT Catalog, Bibliomysteries —show all groups, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, Book History / Histoire du Livre, Books in 2025: The Future of the Book World, Books in Books, Books on Books, Bostonians, Bug Collectors, Build the Open Shelves Classification, Dantisti, Dictionaries, Edgar A. Poe, Fforde Ffans, HelpThing and WikiThing, Historical Biography, History of the Book, History Readers: Clio's (Pleasure?) Palace, Legacy Libraries, Librarians who LibraryThing, Library History, LibraryThing Challenges, LibraryThing Community Outreach, LibraryThing Employees, LibraryThing Gatherings and Meetups, Maps and Atlases, Massachusetts Genealogy, Other People's Libraries, Pilgrims and Puritans, Presidential Literature, Primary Source Geeks, Rare Books, Documents, Maps, and Ephemera, Rare, Old or Offbeat, ReadaThing, Simmons College, The Diogenes Club, The Name of Queen Baudolino's Pendulum of the Flame Before, The Turk's Head, Travel and Exploration literature
Favorite authorsBernard Bailyn, Andrea Barrett, Nicholas A. Basbanes, Paul Collins, Robert Darnton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Umberto Eco, Owen Gingerich, Ursula K. Le Guin, Georgette Heyer, Susan Hill, M. R. James, Henry Morris, Naomi Novik, Iain Pears, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Alan Taylor, Edward O. Wilson (Shared favorites)
VenuesFavorites | Visited
Favorite bookstoresBrattle Book Shop, Brookline Booksmith, Commonwealth Books, Harvard Book Store, Heartwood Books, Raven Used Books
Favorite librariesAlderman Library (UVA), Schaffer Library - Union College
Other favoritesLibraryThing H.Q.
Favorite publishersYale University Press
Favorite listsLiterary Forgeries
Homepagehttp://philobiblos.blogspot.com
MembershipER. LibraryThing Early Reviewers/Member Giveaway
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Real nameJeremy
LocationCharlottesville, VA
Account typepublic, lifetime
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Member sinceJan 10, 2006
