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The new version of Books is now available. You can fetch it online at http://books.aetherial.net/2006/04/books_30alpha10.html of update from within the...
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Apr 4, 2006
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Howdy, I am trying to get a tab delimited file to import into Books. I haven't had any luck. Is there a special way to format the file? When I select the...
Jason
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Apr 5, 2006
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2 questions: 1. What version of Books are you running? 2. Can you send me a copy of your file in case I missed something in my latest revision? Mail it...
Chris Karr
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Apr 5, 2006
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Dear books_users, I just found Books and checked it out to see if it did the things I miss in Delicious Library. It does! I'll be switching with pleasure. But...
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Apr 8, 2006
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... Belay that--I realized it would be much better to do it in the Ruby script, since it's Delicious-specific, and also easier. I don't know if this is...
Tim Walters
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Apr 8, 2006
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... OK, I see what's going on--Location is an attribute of each copy rather than the main book entry. I kludged this sufficiently for my needs by changing...
Tim Walters
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Apr 8, 2006
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The new version of Books is out and available at http://books.aetherial.net/wordpress/?p=376 This update includes a number of interface fixes, under the hood...
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Apr 28, 2006
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Not a great report, sorry to say: 1 minute to new book pane - first try took over 2 minutes. Typing slows to a crawl (even with my slow typing, I can easily...
Ken McGuire
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Apr 28, 2006
2:11 am
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Also, I may not have noticed it before, but when you adjust the size of the cover window on the main screen, it distorts the cover art. Ken...
Ken McGuire
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Apr 28, 2006
2:21 am
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Bah. Ken - can you create a .zip file of your Books folder and e-mail me off list so I know where I can get it to see what the problem is? Anyone else having...
Chris Karr
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Apr 28, 2006
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Heya- Just curious if a BibTeX export will be introduced soon. I'm about to integrate Books into my workflow, part of which involves being able to cite books...
Alex Montgomery
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May 6, 2006
6:32 pm
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I'm working on a BibTeX export plugin, and it should be released later this month with 3.0alpha14. If you'd like to be my guinea pig in the meantime, let me...
Chris Karr
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May 8, 2006
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The latest version of Books is now available for download: http://books.aetherial.net/downloads/Books_3.0a13.tbz This release fixes some embarassang...
Chris Karr
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May 8, 2006
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I am new to books, and am seriously techo challenged. I am beginning to use books3.0a12. I think I have done sometthing terrible. When I try to save or close...
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May 10, 2006
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I was having two problems with batch quickfill: --when I tried to run it on my current library (1382 items) it spawned a zillion threads and locked up my...
Tim Walters
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May 10, 2006
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... I just downloaded a13, and this solution doesn't work with the new notification scheme. I still see both bugs, though....
Tim Walters
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May 10, 2006
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Send me your Delicious Library file to cjkarr@... and I'll take a look at it. -Chris...
Chris Karr
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May 10, 2006
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I'll see what I can do about fixing this. -Chris...
Chris Karr
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May 10, 2006
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Looks like the last time it worked was 3.0a9. -A...
Alex Montgomery
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May 10, 2006
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I have a fix ready that I'll be testing tonight. Once I get this taken care of and once I get the BibTeX fixes in place, I'll be ready to deploy the new...
Chris Karr
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One more fix: Multiple authors aren't separated by "and" - additionally, an extra comma often appears at the end of a group of authors....
Alex Montgomery
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May 11, 2006
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Hi, I just installed Books last night and I am really pleased with the program. Especially for the price! I am actually using Books to keep track of books...
Heather
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May 11, 2006
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Just DL'ed the app. very nice. I've noticed though that my preferences on book look up don't stick. B&N while nice is not my choice. I'd like Amazon US, same...
John
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Jun 1, 2006
12:37 pm
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This is a bug in the Books 2.0 codebase. If you're running Tiger, this problem is not in the 3.0 codebase. -Chris...
Chris Karr
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Jun 1, 2006
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Did we get this problem solved? -Chris...
Chris Karr
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Did we get this problem solved? -Chris...
Chris Karr
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Yes, thank you. I reinstalled everything and through away something that was probably corrupted. Books is now working well. Thanks for your diligent follow...
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... There is no way to customize this short of writing your own plugin (or customizing the Amazon one). ... What field names are you trying to use? Can you...
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Ummm... anyone have an answer to my questions?...
Heather
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I may be missing something, but I can't find a way to specify a custom field (Height) for all book records. I seem to have to add it every time I create a 'New...
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