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Thanks so much for the wonderful Books program. I have what is probably a very stupid question about the Web Exporter. How do I update the website Web Exporter...
malkeleah
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Feb 2, 2008
10:50 pm
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Is it possible to sort books alphabetically by author? How can a smart list be deleted or its parameters changed? Thanks for your help from a new user - I was...
Helen Presberg
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Feb 24, 2008
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I am new to this group - just joined today. I have perused the messages but haven't come across an answer to my question. Also, be aware that I am not...
kad372
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Feb 24, 2008
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I am using Mac Leopard and am new to Books. I find that Books often doesn't open. Also I would like to know how to sort by author, for example. Thanks, helen...
helenpresberg
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Feb 24, 2008
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Hi Kathleen, you should display the "Books I want to read". Then I suppose that in the left you have the little part of the window where are all the lists...
Kristi Laur
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Feb 24, 2008
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Hello Im new, new here and new "Books" user. Application works very fine (i love barcode reader :)), plugins are great, but i found one annoying thing. ...
parasitpl
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Feb 26, 2008
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The problem you are having may have to do with tokenized input.. Go to preferences/main and check the box to disable tokenized input. Then see if you can copy...
Ken McGuire
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Feb 26, 2008
4:59 pm
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Hi, I've been using Books for a while but just now got around to trying out the iPod exporter. I have a question... Is it possible to change the way my list...
Heather
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Feb 28, 2008
1:05 pm
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There isn't a way to modify the output right now, but the Books project operates on the principle "The squeaky wheel gets the grease". I'm happy to update the...
Chris Karr
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Mar 2, 2008
1:38 pm
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Send me some ISBN numbers and titles where this happens and I'll see if I can address it. If the library distinguishes between those fields in their records, I...
Chris Karr
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Mar 2, 2008
1:55 pm
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Hi all, I've got an iPod Touch (jailbroken of course) Has anyone found a good way of putting the Books info in a useable form onto the 'touch or iPhone? Thanks...
Paul
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Mar 4, 2008
2:27 pm
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I have an incorrect spelling of a Genre title. How do I globally change it for the several dozen books to which it has been assigned? I can create a smart list...
amaloney2
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Mar 4, 2008
5:02 pm
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You should go to preferences and check the box to disable tokenized input. Then select all of the books with the incorrect spelling (you can create the smart...
Ken McGuire
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Mar 4, 2008
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Ken Thanks a lot. That worked for me. Where do I find out what "tokenized input" does? Searching Help is still going on with no result after 5 minutes. Al...
amaloney2
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Mar 4, 2008
11:49 pm
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Presently there is no way to put Books data on an iPhone/iTouch. I do have a copy of the SDK and I'll have a solution sometime over the summer after the 2.0...
Chris Karr
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Mar 7, 2008
2:37 pm
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... Tokenized input basically takes a delimited string such as string1; string2; string 3; ... And turns it into bubble tokens like the ones in Mail....
Chris Karr
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Mar 7, 2008
2:37 pm
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I have been thinking about this for a while, and I think that I am leaning toward the web as the preferable of the two options. However, if you could do a full...
Ken McGuire
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Mar 7, 2008
7:22 pm
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Hi. I just started using books, and it's working nicely so far on my books. I wanted to start organizing my comic books so I downloaded the ComicBookDB plugin,...
koneko_shiroi
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Mar 29, 2008
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... The problem with that plugin is that the site owners stopped us from using it. They changed their site to break the plugin. This is the major reason that I...
Chris Karr
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Mar 29, 2008
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Unfortunately, Apple hasn't opened up that part of the API in the iPhone SDK. I'll let you know if that changes. -Chris...
Chris Karr
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Mar 29, 2008
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Using a MacBook Pro (has built-in iSight) running OS X 10.5.2 and Books 3.1.8. I am unable to read the BarCode from my books. I do get a screen with the red...
amaloney2
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Apr 25, 2008
12:34 pm
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You're not missing anything. The problem is the combination of Books and the built-in iSight. I'll post a note when I have something fixed. -Chris PS....
Chris Karr
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May 30, 2008
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I just started using Books today. While using the application, I added a book that didn't have a cover image with it. I read in another post that while your...
mrl30088
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Jun 14, 2008
2:08 pm
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Just open the "Get Info" window, click on the photo and press "delete". You didn't say what filetype your cover image was, but whenever I need cover art that...
Ken McGuire
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Jun 14, 2008
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Thanks for the delete tip. But while I could open the get info window for a book that had a photo, the book that had a picture from Photobooth that couldn't...
mrl30088
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Jun 14, 2008
4:59 pm
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... Books doesn't have any limits for cover sizes. ... This is a bug in the current version. It's on my list of things to fix. ... Books stores files at ...
Chris Karr
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Jun 14, 2008
6:21 pm
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Thanks for the location info Chris. I went and played around with adding images again. I confirmed that when I dropped photos from inside the Photo Booth...
mrl30088
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Jun 16, 2008
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... Thanks for the report. I'll look into this. You can copy and paste images into the cover well, so it's surprising that it doesn't work with PhotoBooth...
Chris Karr
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Jun 20, 2008
1:25 pm
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I seem to detect some confusion on how to add images to books, CDs, magazines. Here's a quick and easy (dirty?) way of doing it. Find or scan the cover needed....
old.yorkie
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Jun 23, 2008
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I am using version 3.1.10. I can not add my data such as "Date started' or Date Finished". How do you add that data? The quick fill works just fine but I...
jlanceh2
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