Thanks for taking the time to join this list. I'm hoping to grow this into something cool. :-) And to keep this from being a content-free message, I've posted...
Hi, I would still like to request the option to choose how the publish date is displayed. I'd like to see only the year in this field. Could this be done? Best...
Kristi Laur
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Feb 11, 2006 11:26 am
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The new Books alpha is out: http://books.aetherial.net/2006/02/books_30alpha8.html If you want to download the full distribution (including source) and ...
I'll slip in an option in the next release. It's simple to do as long as you're comfortable with al of your dates using the same format. That is, all of your...
I was thinking about the simple one: that all the publish dates would be just the year and nothing more. :) Kristi...
Kristi Laur
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Feb 13, 2006 7:26 am
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cris, wow!! what a nice program, thanks for making it available as an open source program. i've only been using it a few days but i'm extremely pleased with...
Hi, just a notice... that in the "review" page the "progress" and "rating" fields don't remember what I have written there earlier, although they look like...
Kristi Laur
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Feb 14, 2006 6:40 pm
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I'm loving my first few days with Books!! I'm a teacher with a mess of a classroom library. Your software will help me keep track of the collection and which...
... I haven't touched the 2.0 codebase for over a year. Bruce is working on it, but I don't think he has as much time as me at the moment. If you're using...
... I can't claim any credit for the spellchecker as that's something that comes with coding using Cocoa for free. However, I'm glad that you like the...
Ilene, this is a fairly complicated question. There are a coupe of algorithms to use - depending upon when the UPC was issued. If you're comfortable with code,...
The code would work :) I saw some of the code in the sources that are out on the server currently, and that they go out to amazon.com with a UPC... But I kinda...
Sure - I just need to modify the Amazon quickfill plugins to import that data on a quickfill. This information will live in a user- defined field under...
Thanks for adding this option Chris! This will be useful! Is it possible to add an option to search by ISBN? That way my students can scan their books and...
... Done. It will show up in 3.0 alpha 9. I didn't realize that I neglected to add the ISBN field to the search box. ... 3.0 doesn't at the moment, but that's...
Chris, Thanks for putting in the options into the next version for me! I really appreciate you programing expertise and quick response. In terms of the...
Hello all. I hope everyone had a good weekend. I'm just writing to let you all know that I put a couple of new Books plugins online this weekend. They are...
Great news. It would be useful to be able to instruct the batch Quickfill to overwrite existing fields if the user would like; e.g., I have a lot of old...
Hi, I have a problem with the Web exporter plugin. I have authors, whos names contain letters like õ, ä, ö, ü, and when the Web Exporter makes a html pages...
Kristi Laur
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Feb 21, 2006 10:10 am
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There should be no problem viewing those characters. Can you send me a link to your collection so I can look at it? I'm guessing that I need to explicitly...
The link to my collection is: www.zone.ee/yei Kristi...
Kristi Laur
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Feb 21, 2006 4:44 pm
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I've implemented the batch fill so that it asks you whether you want to keep or over write your old fields each time you invoke it for a list. -Chris...
Kristi, uncompress the attached file and add it to your Plugins folder. Let's see if this fixes the problem. Ken, I'm CC'ing you on this, as this release...