On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 7:00 PM, jessamyn c. west <[email protected]> wrote:

> In looking over the past 30-50 emails, we've had 6-8 reports of people
> who have been using Open Library just fine and then suddenly can't see
> any of the lending library books anymore and only see DAISY titles.
>
> I have been forwarding all these emails to Anand when they are
> reporting a geographical location and an IP address. I'm aware this
> may not be an OL issue (i.e. that ISPs are issuing IP addresses that
> don't resolve properly in some way) but I'm wondering if we can make
> this process smoother for people. This happened to me a few weeks ago
> and I was able to fix it by restarting my modem and getting a new IP
> but not everyone can do this. Thoughts?


Doing a geo lookup on the IP address is a nice convenience, but it seems
like there should be a way to override it and allow the user to specify
which geography they want lendable books for.  There are, for example, lots
of people who live in New Hampshire, but commute to Massachusetts for work.
 They might want to do lookups at home for books that they want to borrow
when in Boston.

Tom
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