Key to Symbols & Icons

This table shows all the icons that might appear on an author's page. Not all icons appear on all pages. Find the icon that you're interested in and read all about it. If you still have questions, send me an e-mail.

Here's where all the most important facts and figures about an individual title are gathered — as many as 15 separate indicators including first edition points, dates in print, confirmed sightings of DJ and binding types, genre and curriculum info; plus sales figures, notes about printing history, and other stuff. Sometimes contains links to further information or graphics. (Click here for an annotated sample of what clicking this icon brings up.)
Link to a web-based author biography (detailed when I can find it, sketchy when I can't), when possible at sites specializing in that author. (Click here to learn more about web-based biography links.)

Table of contents of a specific title. Reserved for books of essays, short stories, anthologies, and the like.
As above, but with at least one entry in the table linked to web-based content. (Click here to learn more about web-based content links.)
Links directly to the complete text of a work, sometimes with graphics and/or ancillary information. (Click here to learn more about web-based content links.)
Opens offsite table of contents of a title; the ToC links to web-based contents. When it appears in the writer's name field, this icon usually points to a writer's web-based collected works. (Click here to learn more about web-based content links.)
Metacontent about a title (plot summary, historical context, importance, criticism, and so on) or an author's complete works (style, influences, school of thought). Either opens a local window or links to an external page. (Click here to learn more about metacontent.)

Blurbs from the panels and flaps of dust jackets, with original capitalization, punctuation, and spelling preserved.

Indicates this title was printed in a buckram binding. Clicking the symbol will display an image.
Found below boxes and/or acetates of illustrated editions, shows several representative illustrations for that title.
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 Found next to author's name, indicates that selection(s) by author appear in anthology. Clicking icon goes to page bottom to list of selections.
19xx - 19yy Found above DJ image, indicates that this DJ might exist for a date earlier than 19xx.
19xx - 19yy Found above DJ image, indicates that this DJ might exist for a date later than 19yy.
19xx - 19yy Found above DJ image, indicates that 19xx - 19yy are the only years that this DJ was in use.
19xx - 19yy Found above blurry DJ image, indicates that we strongly believe that a DJ in the style of the blurry image exists, likely for the years indicated, but is thus far unreported.
Produces a blowup of a dust jacket like the one under which it appears.
Links back to the ModernLib home page
Gets this table