--- In [email protected], Brian Crozier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm brand new to the site. Actually I've been trying to use it for a while but it kept crashing my computer. I played with the ISBN lookup box and it worked okay for me on January 1st. It didn't work on every book I tried as I guess only some were in the database. But it seemed to be functioning fine. If I'm not talking about the same thing, sorry, I call newbieness! :-) >
Welcome to BookCrossing, Brian! [Side note: it's appreciated if you trim your replies to this group so they don't contain the text of the note you're replying to; saves a lot of space.] A failure to find a matching ISBN is not the problem people are talking about; that's just a limitation of the Amazon database that BC uses for the lookups. The "ISBN lookup" problem occurs when somebody does a lookup and the ISBN is found, but instead of the book details being correctly filled with the expected title and author, a string of additional text and HTML tags is added, causing anything from mild unsightliness to general chaos. The problem happens on some books and not others; sometimes it messes up the registration screen while other times it doesn't seem to cause any trouble until someone tries to make release notes or a journal entry on the book. The fix is pending - not sure how soon, as the sad loss of BC programmer Dan Clune did set back a lot of code-related work - but now that the holiday season is winding down perhaps we'll get some news about the fix. In the meantime, I'm still advising people not to use the "lookup" button on the live site; you can still fill in the ISBN if you have one, and if there's a matching cover-pic it'll show up on your bookshelf, but if you avoid hitting the "lookup" button you'll also avoid the garbled-book-title problem. [If you do get a garbled title, you can usually - but not always - fix it yourself via "edit book details". Sometimes even that screen won't work properly, though, and in that case you'll need to get BC support to help.] -GoryDetails Books just wanna be FREE! See what I mean at: http://bookcrossing.com/friend/GoryDetails Have you told a friend today? http://bookcrossing.com/tellafriend Archives and email list settings: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
