Cheryl wrote: I put my own perspective on Rosie's words and did not do so carefully. Yes she used the word delete.
I took the suggestion to mean, if the book is already permanently labeled, to be marked as, well, I hadn't thought it through yet, but something other than available or pc or tbr. Maybe reserved. Otoh, if we're using sticky notes, and then taking them out because a swapper wants a clean copy, then there is not BCID, and the book will no longer be journaled, because the recipient will not be able to find it in bookcrossing (or even have the note to alert them to the existence of bookcrossing). So then it seems to me that, if there is a provision for deletion in bookcrossing.com, that the book should be deleted, because it simply is not a bookcrossing book because it does not have a bookcrossing label. Maybe Rosie has further clarification. LLR Cheryl >> Hi everyone, I was replying to Cheryl's thread about trading her hardback science fiction classics for paperbacks... A couple of people told her really great ideas about how to use BookCrossing to register the books and be more likely to find what she wants in trades but Cheryl DID want to do trades with "clean copies"... i.e. no bookcrossing number on it for other bookswaps... I don't know much about the other book trading arenas, so I could only assume that she really needed clean copies. So that was my idea about how to do both things at both times. I did mean delete, because I was assuming she was trading with someone who was insisting on a clean copy and it would not be able to be journalled. I have deleted one book one time for personal reasons, and nothing bad happened in the system that I was aware of. I was assuming that delete was there for good reason - you might decide for many reasons to not have a book in BookCrossing. Although I use BookCrossing for keeping track of my permanent collection as well as my availables, etc., I don't have ALL my books in because I do have a few "grown up" books and I decided that it was not a good idea to have them up on BookCrossing. The bulk of my collection IS on BookCrossing and thus people could see what I like and decide to lure me with a good trade (grins). And another part of that is that I do have in my collection a few older first version collectable books and a few signed books. I did register them in my collection. They do show my tastes and it is also nice to have all my collection catalogued on B/Cing. I did not want to besmirch them with any marks, so I put the stickies on them too. I hope I never fall on hard times and need to sell them, but should I ever decide to do so, I will use delete and take them out of the system. I guess there is always the chance that someday I might change my mind about them and send them out on a trade... so for now they are there, in case I do ever want to trade them, so I have a printable list of everything I own, and so that I can show my fellow BCers what I like. >From what I understand of B/C technically, delete should not cause a problem in these cases. It looks like it is just a normal database and there are programs in place to clean up the system whenever we delete books. Delete can be used if you mistakenly enter a roommates book, if you change your mind, etc. So I think it is safe. I wouldn't put something that I had sold or traded or lost that didn't have the BCID on it on reserved or traveling because as someone else said, it would never be journalled and it is no longer a BC book. It is probably cleaner to delete those from the system. I thought for Cheryl it would be a good idea to do, and it might still be, because it opens up some options for her with trades. If she gets the trade from someone who doesn't care if it is labeled or not she can send it out like that, and if she gets the trade from someone who insists on a pristine copy she can still do the trade, just delete the book. She may not have to delete any of the books at all. It's just an option "just in case". Options are wealth.... B/Cing is cool because it gives us these options! Rosie [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/
