Duplicate book warning / scheduled downtime 2am EST
Duplicate book warning. I've added a feature to the Add Books tab that flags when you add a book already in your collection. Since "duplicate" is such a slippery concept, it works exclusively by ISBN.
I will be rolling this feature out past the Add Books page in the coming days. I wanted to get this out there because a number of users wanted it as they re-add books lost during the crash.
Also—fair warning—I'm going to be forcing the ISBN fields to conform to a standard, hyphenless format (some libraries like to add hyphens). If you use the ISBN field for something else—like your own personal code—you may lose it in a day or two. Write me if you neeed help moving it.
PS: The book featured above, Sophie Belfort's The Marvel College Murders is fantastic, a hillarious, intelligent murder mystery—really a novel of manners—set at a fictional Boston-area university. I was amazed to find nobody else on LibraryThing had read it.
Scheduled downtime. LibraryThing will have a scheduled downtime at 2am EST (11PM PST, 8:00 GMT). My dba-helper is going to try something to improve stability.
I will be rolling this feature out past the Add Books page in the coming days. I wanted to get this out there because a number of users wanted it as they re-add books lost during the crash.
Also—fair warning—I'm going to be forcing the ISBN fields to conform to a standard, hyphenless format (some libraries like to add hyphens). If you use the ISBN field for something else—like your own personal code—you may lose it in a day or two. Write me if you neeed help moving it.
PS: The book featured above, Sophie Belfort's The Marvel College Murders is fantastic, a hillarious, intelligent murder mystery—really a novel of manners—set at a fictional Boston-area university. I was amazed to find nobody else on LibraryThing had read it.
Scheduled downtime. LibraryThing will have a scheduled downtime at 2am EST (11PM PST, 8:00 GMT). My dba-helper is going to try something to improve stability.
posted by Tim at 3:54 PM
4 Comments:
I keep meaning to point this out to you when you post the downtime messages ... 2am EST is 7am GMT, not 8am. We switch to BST a week earlier than you, I believe, but essentially we're five hours ahead, not six.
GREATLY APPRECIATED! If you can add a function which can be run to list all duplicates in the library as well it would be great.
Wouldn't you know? The first time I got this warning, the books were actually different (Vols. I and II of the Letters of Dorothy Sayers), but they do, in fact, have the same ISBN for some reason.
I just want to second Norman's request for a way to search for duplicates in the library-- I know I have some in there (exact same book/ISBN) due to some mistakes on my part when uploading some lists and I'd love to be able to get rid of the duplicates w some easy maneuver.
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