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Bugs and Broken Bits Reporting
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[ONGOING: tech team aware]Latest site glitch: release zone links missing from release notes; error on attempts to edit zones
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Still having problems
bookscout
1 mo ago
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It seems it’s been forever since this site has worked properly on so many levels. Has it reached its maximum? Not fun to come here and have so many problems. Now I can’t release books. Doesn’t seem to find any zones.
Bugs and Broken Bits Reporting
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[TECH TEAM ARE INVESTIGATING] Book registrations are not working well today
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What’s the problem?
bookscout
6 mos ago
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Why can’t I use the register book using the ISBN number. I always get an error message and have to enter it manually. Is this the “new normal”? It’s been that way for months.
Bugs and Broken Bits Reporting
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[TECH TEAM ARE INVESTIGATING] Book registrations are not working well today
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Register books is not working for me
bookscout
7 mos ago
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Says it cannot find title in the database. Tried really common titles such as Eleven on Top and Catcher in the Rye.
Bugs and Broken Bits Reporting
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[FIXED] Member stats page gives server error message
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Still broken!
bookscout
4 yrs ago
I thought it was me until I came in here. Thanks for the update that everyone is getting this.
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves Bookring
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RE: Eats, Shoots & Leaves Bookring
bookscout
13 yrs ago
That sounds like fun. Sign me up and I'd like to ship in the US only if possible. Thanks for organizing this.
Book Talk
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Have you ever wondered how many is reading the same book at the exactly same time?
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RE: Sometimes I am pleasantly surprised
bookscout
13 yrs ago
I read The Dork form Cork! When I picked it up I remember thinking that this probably has limited appeal. I also remember the protagonist/story was not very appealing to me. Too sad , pathetic, and gritty. I probably sho…
bookscout
13 yrs ago
From eight years ago and two of the authors, Dick Francis and Robert Parker are dead now. Cue twilight zone theme.
bookscout
13 yrs ago
and your description doesn't ring a bell with me either. One suggestion is to go to booksleuth on the ABE website. People are very helpful and know a lot. For them, it is a business. Also you could try key words on Amazo…
bookscout
13 yrs ago
any answers to our queries? All the posts are from us and none from TPTB.
Bugs and Broken Bits Reporting
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(known bug; in progress) BUG - stats gone haywire
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My releases show up but...
bookscout
13 yrs ago
the new ones that were caught as an experiment in journalling did not show on my profile.
bookscout
13 yrs ago
sent to my email address. I released a book to a friend who journaled it right in front of me but nothing has come through @yahoo.com. What could be the matter?
Bugs and Broken Bits Reporting
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(Fixed)Is it possible to get back the release another book to this location feature?
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WOW!
bookscout
13 yrs ago
It is fixed. Literally between one release and another it appeared and rejoicing was heard throughout the land. Thank you.
bookscout
13 yrs ago
I haven't had JAs for a long time before the switch. I was reminded of it because recently I looked at one of the books I left in Dublin, Ireland last June and was gobsmacked to find it had 9 journalers and had really tr…
Bugs and Broken Bits Reporting
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(Fixed)Is it possible to get back the release another book to this location feature?
bookscout
13 yrs ago
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to use that "release another book to this location" feature? The site is soooo slow and I wanted to release about 50 books this holiday weekend. Every step in the register/release process takes forever and I have to do i…
Book Talk
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Somebody from the U.K. - - what do these expressions mean?
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Bomber's moon make no sense
bookscout
14 yrs ago
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It is as defined but a full moon could hardly go out of fashion or be a thing of the past so there must be another meaning.
Book Talk
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Why is it so hard to find 'good' books at yard sales and thrift shops? (snob alert)
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My thought is
bookscout
14 yrs ago
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that people that read Moore and Prachett, Fforde and Tim Dorsey don't get rid of their books. Also this might be the first time around for the more prolific authors so you are seeing the same books again and again. I kno…
bookscout
14 yrs ago
I also enjoyed The Devil's Teeth. It's a story about a journalist who went to live with naturalists on the Fallarone Islands off San Francisco and write about the great white shark project they are conducting.
bookscout
14 yrs ago
and every time it was a different experience. Would go again in a heartbeat. I think I've released about 40-50 books in Alaska. Lived in Fairbanks when I was young and loved it. Second the idea of the Yukon and White Pas…
Book Talk
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Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde - what fun!
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I, too, read my first Thursday out of order
bookscout
14 yrs ago
and was thoroughly confused, but soldiered on, suspecting that it would be a great series. Like tea said, you can read them again and see new things. I have some of the nursery series on Mt. TBR.
bookscout
14 yrs ago
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After I read this thread I was in a bookstore at the airport and they had placed the novelization of "Public Enemies" with Johnny Depp in the non-fiction history section. Go figure.
bookscout
14 yrs ago
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Quite by accident I discovered that a book I sent out years ago had recently been sent to someone else but I know that I did not get a notice of that. I read the journal entry on my shelf. In fact I have not had a book j…
bookscout
14 yrs ago
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you have books all over the house in 6 huge bookcases, a classroom with huge bookcases, a school storage room for science equipment which has bookcases and boxes in it, and you still rent an off-site storage room for the…
Conventions and Meetings
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Dublin, Ireland mini meet up to greet bookscout - Tuesday 23 June 2009
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Re: See you tomorrow night
bookscout
14 yrs ago
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I was met by the nicest group in Dublin. Great time and lots of laughs. My mother and my sister were impressed and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Took me until now to get on a computer and this laptop is borrowed from t…
Conventions and Meetings
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Dublin, Ireland mini meet up to greet bookscout - Tuesday 23 June 2009
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I made it to Dublin, staying on O'Connell street
bookscout
14 yrs ago
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Will be at the longstone pub on tues about 8pm, have red hair and will have a book or two.
Conventions and Meetings
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Dublin, Ireland mini meet up to greet bookscout - Tuesday 23 June 2009
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Re: Dublin, Ireland meet up ******TONIGHT******* Tuesday 16 June 2009
bookscout
14 yrs ago
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Rats! I just missed y'alls meetup. I won't be in Dublin until June 22nd. My plan of course is to leave some wild releases in the city. I am going to a cousin's wedding in Athlone June 26th. Should be a great party!