G'dday.

Just a moment ago I recorded the release of four books.

One of them had the BCID XYY-5856287, where X is one numeral suppressed for 
security and Y is another numeral suppressed for security. All four books 
were copies of the same book given to me by the author to distribute as I 
saw fit, and all four of them had been registered in the same hit yesterday 
along with six other copies that I haven't yet released.

Three of them, I was able to record the release without any problems. With 
this one, though, I got the red-red-red message that the three digits at the 
beginning of the BCID didn't latch the real thee digits for that book. I 
double-checked my release-note-scrap-of-paper (since I wandered around town 
releasing the four at the same time, I made notes on paper as I went to 
later update the computer records), and hwen I checked it, the number seemed 
to be correct.

So then I decided to try and use the prefic XXY, thinking that even though I 
was careful as I wrote them down, I may have accidentally doubled the wrong 
figure in the prefix. That also came up as wrong.

So I went to my "bookshelf" and hunted down the copy of the book that ended 
with the same numeric string. Its prefix was XYY, just as I had written 
down, and just as I had tried to release without success. So I conducted an 
experiment. I went back to the "release books" link and tried again. Got the 
warning message again. Then went back to the copy on my bookshelf and used 
the link within that actual copy's page. It worked, but it wouldn't work 
from outside the book's own personal space.

Looks as if there might be an occasional problem with the release software, 
or the site as a whole may need some cleaning up and checking for malicious 
code.

The book in question:- http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5856287 , and my 
BC name is Nisaba000.

Nisaba Merrieweather
... The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever 
fortune
sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances. (Aristotle)
ICQ: 361 565 370
http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/nisaba000



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