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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...
Chris Karr
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Feb 10, 2006
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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 ...
Chris Karr
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Feb 11, 2006
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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...
Chris Karr
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Feb 11, 2006
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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
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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...
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Feb 14, 2006
12:16 am
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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
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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...
Jason Shiroff
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Feb 14, 2006
6:56 pm
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I am looking for the formula to translate UPC to ISBN so that I can use a bar code reader to import book data. Basically, I'd be scanning the book,...
Ilene
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Feb 14, 2006
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... 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...
Chris Karr
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Feb 15, 2006
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... It's probably a bug. I'll add it to my list of things to look at. -Chris...
Chris Karr
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... 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...
Chris Karr
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Feb 15, 2006
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I'll slip this into the 3.0a9 release. I anticipate that I'll probably have that out next week sometime. -Chris...
Chris Karr
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Feb 15, 2006
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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,...
Chris Karr
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Feb 15, 2006
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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...
Ilene
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Feb 16, 2006
5:23 pm
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Howdy Chis, I would like the Editoral Reviews as a separate field, not part of the summary. Is this easy to achieve? Thanks for the quick feedback!...
Jason
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Feb 17, 2006
3:48 am
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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...
Chris Karr
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Feb 17, 2006
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Anyone who doesn't want to look at Objective-C code should just delete this message now. :-) Ilene, here's the code from the setIsbn method in ...
Chris Karr
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Feb 17, 2006
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Awesome, thank you very much for the info! Ilene Jones...
Ilene
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Feb 17, 2006
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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...
Jason
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Feb 17, 2006
11:38 pm
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... 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 Karr
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Feb 19, 2006
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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...
Jason
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Feb 19, 2006
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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...
Chris Karr
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Feb 20, 2006
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... The next release will have a batch Quickfill that users will invoke on their own. -Chris...
Chris Karr
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Feb 20, 2006
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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...
Alex Montgomery
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Feb 20, 2006
5:24 pm
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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
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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...
Chris Karr
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Feb 21, 2006
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The link to my collection is: www.zone.ee/yei Kristi...
Kristi Laur
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Feb 21, 2006
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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...
Chris Karr
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Feb 21, 2006
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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...
Chris Karr
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Feb 21, 2006
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