That was easier than I expected. When I sawthe introduction and read words and phrases like "different software versions or file types", "versioning", "convert documents as multiplt file types" "HTML and pdf", I thought it was going to be yet another exercise I couldn't do. However, I found that you didn't need to know what any of those things meant, which was good, but there were a whole lot of new things. It was just like an ordinary word processor, but with more things on it. I tried them all, with varying degrees of success and comprehension. Why does "quote" mean "orange box"? What do "subscript", "superscript", the anchor and "page break" do? What does "Toggle HTML source" mean? And why did I end up in a large (and expandable) box (and why was it called a layer?) which I didn't seem able to delete?
I'm sure this would be useful if you wanted to do some fancy documents - fancier than you can do on your ordinary word processor. Did you ask me to say how you could use it in a library? (Or is that the next exercise? I misread the numbers at first, and started doing no.17) Well, I'm sure you sometimes need to make fancy signs and things in the library, so ti would be good for that.

Stuck again, I'm afraid. How do I create a link to my searchroll? I looked all over, and couldn't find anything that looked like an address that you would be able to use to find it. The one at the top just says rollyo.com/createroll.html - nothing to do with my particular one.
Is Rollyo just like a large "Favourites" list? That's what it seems to be - except that you can apparently get into other people's favourites if you and they want. I couldn't think of anything to put on my searchroll, so I just found some sites in my "Favourites" list and put them in. I hope that's all right.
I spent a while looking at the things you suggested to see what Rollyo was about. I found that one of them seemed to be a place to look up books , and then if you belonged to a library I think you could see which libraries had them, so I suppose it was a sort of interloan facility. I also looked at the Freephotos one, but found a strange thing in the middle (buzzwords) which was nothing to do with photos, just telling me about Britney and Paris and Pepsi iced cucmber. Which might have been quite interesting, but my son's anxiously waiting for the computer.
Another thing I've obviously forgotten is how to stop losing pages all the time - I keep having to go right back to square 1 to read the exercises, for instance, but I'm sure Kathy showed me how to keep things handy so that you just have to click on something to bring them up again.
I think I 've got a day free next week - in fact, possibly two, so I'll see whether I can fix a time to come and ask for advice. I seem to be ploughing through the exercises quite steadily, but actually I'm usually having to give up before they're finished because I don't know how to do the vital bits.

no.14

I can't believe that anyone who is interested enough in books to join librarything could have only 200 books! I must have almost that just on my bedside table waiting to be read. So it's a bit silly to say you can do it free, or pay and enter as many books as you like - obviously, everyone would need to pay. But it would take years to put all your books in! Time that could much better be spent reading more books. I would need to keep running upstairs and collecting boxloads of books off the shelves to bring downstairs to the computer to add to my list, and then taking them back upstairs and putting them back on the shelves ... it doesn't bear thinking about. I'm afraid I can't really see the point (yet again). Unless you wanted to borrow someone else's books, perhaps. It just seems like a rather expanded book group, really. The free books for preview would be nice - but then you'd have to make sure you read them in time. Speaking as someone who's had a book out for nearly seven weeks and hasn't yet had a chance even to open it, I can see that might be a problem.
http://www.librarything.com/home/stagregory

no.13

I'm afraid I've failed again. Unfortunately, some of your instructions are a bit vague for people who don't know what you're talking about. I right-clicked on my image, saved it with a file name, and found the image button (at least, that's what it seemed to be - it said something like "add image"). But how do you get the image on to the blog? I typed in the file name at every opportunity, but it just sat there looking at me and not doing anything. I hadn't been able to find a code to copy - the bit at the top jsut said "image generator" or something, but it didn't change when I put my word in, so I'm sure that wouldn't have been much use to you.
I looked at all three of those things - the first one seemed a bit laboured and pointless - just making up silly names and things. I thought they were actually going to use my name to create another one, which might have been quite clever, but if you're just going to pick words at random, I don't know why you'd bother. I thought the James one was much better; and the third one might very well be quite interesting if you've got some photos, but I haven't, so I didn't really look at that one much.
Now this is where you should see a nice picture of a happy German person playing Scrabble, and just putting the last letter of "Spaetzle" in, but it's obviously lost inside my computer somewhere, and I don't know how to get it out.
And oh, dear, sorry, I can't remember what number this is. 13? I'll try that. I really will check when I find the exrcises again. It could be 14.

no. 12

I put my name on the list, but I don't know whether that was what I was supposed to do. Was I supposed to put the address at the top there instead? (I mean, the http://blogger.etc.)
I was a bit worried, I must say, when they said (in the last exercise) "Staring a wiki is easy!" and then bombarded me, in Step 1, with words and phrases like "choose software", "configure wiki", "wiki farms", "server" and "customizability", which are like a foreign language to me, so I can't believe that just writing my blog name somewhere constitutes a whole exercise.

no.11

Yes, I looked at a lot of those ... what? websites? (Some were wikis, but some were about wikis, so I don't know quite how you define them.) Anyway, they seemed quite sensible and useful - like sending an email to everyone concerned, with them replying with suggestions, but obviously much less cumbersome. The one drawback from my point of view is that with an email addressed to me, I'll read it (or at least consider it and decide whether or not to read it), whereas with anything else on the web, I would never think of looking to see what there might be to read. Except for airline tickets, and things like that. I mean, I would never go trawling around in the hope of finding something interesting or useful. Unless, perhaps, someone sent me an email saying,"Go to such-and-such a wiki and read it." But I'd probably forget to.

exercise 10 - future of libraries

Well, that was quite easy. I read three of them, and they all seemed to be saying that people use computers a lot more now, and books become out-of-date, and librarians need to know how to help people use the internet to get information. Which all sounds very true, though perhaps hardly world-shattering in its originality. However, it obviously doesn't apply to fiction, which is a large part of a community library. The major effect it had on me was to make me glad that I'm not just starting out on a lifetime career as a librarian: what attracted me to the job was being able to work with books and people, and it sounds as though books at least, and a lot of interaction with people (e.g. at the issues desk) will become a smaller and smaller part of the job.