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Is there any way to export every aspect of a books info, including picture, to a web page of my own design? Web export creates a site with its own format and...
chumknee
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Oct 3, 2007
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Not unless you know CSS and XSLT. The XML exporter output could be transformed into whatever you want, but there's nothing aside from that at the moment. I'll...
Chris Karr
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Oct 3, 2007
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Hello, i was trying to fill the "ISBN" field of my old list of italian books, but i don't seem to manage to get it through. when data are collected form the...
p.amat
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Oct 11, 2007
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Can you send me the ISBN or titles of books that are exhibiting these problems? -Chris...
Chris Karr
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Oct 11, 2007
5:59 pm
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My thanks to the guys who put in the time and effort for this program. It's really easy to use and pretty intuitive. 2 questions: 1 - is the tab-delimited...
flybot1243
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Oct 12, 2007
12:41 pm
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... Tab-delimited is a pretty free form export format. I've done my best to make it useful and understandable to other apps, but there may not be a complete...
Chris Karr
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Oct 12, 2007
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Wow, what a quick resposne! Shelfari is a site that allows me to share my library with other people. I'm not getting any specific error messages. Here are two ...
flybot1243
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Oct 12, 2007
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I checked out that Shelfari site and it looks quite nice. To bad a plugin could not be made for that site. It is almost a compliment to Books! This could be...
burwell14617
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Oct 12, 2007
11:04 pm
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A plugin is certainly doable, but it may be a while before I get to it. In the meantime, you may want to do the following: 1. Create a few sample books in...
Chris Karr
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Oct 14, 2007
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When "Copies" opens it automatically opens with "Bookshelf" as a location. Is there any way to remove this and open up with a blank form?...
chumknee
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Oct 15, 2007
1:52 am
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Not at the moment. That was the default behavior, but enough users complained that copies should be made automatically that I added it. Note that you can...
Chris Karr
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Oct 17, 2007
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List members: I want to use Books to catalogue my library in numbered boxes. What's the best way to do this? I need to be able to go back and find books in the...
pavlick_mark
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Oct 19, 2007
6:41 pm
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I use the "location" to enter my box #. You can then sort by location or by title and find the box #. Hope that helps, Kari B...
KBRAUTIGAM
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Oct 20, 2007
3:09 am
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Chris, Is there any way to get rid of the line: "Buy online: Amazon, Barnes & Noble" that appears with every book? I really dislike having advertisement. ...
chumknee
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Oct 20, 2007
3:09 am
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Kari B., Thanks very much! I didn't even see that field. - Mark...
pavlick_mark
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Oct 20, 2007
9:08 pm
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Not yet. This is something that will be addressed in the next web exporter. -Chris...
Chris Karr
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Oct 22, 2007
1:50 pm
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Last time I clicked on Barnes & Noble on my website, it said that they no longer supported that program....
Ken McGuire
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Oct 22, 2007
1:56 pm
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Using the german version 3.1.3 I found two problems: 1. To display authors in the booklist I tried the german "Autoren" which did not work - "Authors" did the...
uschan96
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Oct 23, 2007
12:11 am
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... OK, problem no. 2 solved - the nice green button which expands the window makes the search appear. Should I have known that? Being a Mac newbie I'm not...
uschan96
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Oct 26, 2007
1:17 pm
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Hi, You can also expand a window when draging while holding down the mouse button on the diagonal lines in the right bottom corner. Preferences - Details is...
Kristi Laur
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Oct 27, 2007
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... The small default size is a concession to those left using 800x600 displays. I would hope that people with larger displays are finding the bottom-right...
Chris Karr
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Nov 1, 2007
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... Hi Chris, well, it's quite simple: my version shows a german translation. If I go to Einstellungen (Preferences) - Details and choose well whatever, e. g....
Martin Mikoleit
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Nov 1, 2007
9:49 pm
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... This is extremely helpful and narrows down the problem. Here's what's happening: In Books 3.1, I adopted a new scheme for selecting visible columns. The...
Chris Karr
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Nov 1, 2007
9:53 pm
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Each "New Book" seem to create a number as they are being loaded in, starting from zero. The export programs are able to access this number. For example, there...
chumknee
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Nov 18, 2007
1:55 pm
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What you're seeing are internal IDs for book records. Initially, I did this with an incrementing integer count, but in more recent releases, I've begun using...
Chris Karr
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Nov 18, 2007
2:01 pm
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Hi All, I just today downloaded Books 3.1.5 to replace version 2.2.2. I made some changes but when I try to save I am told that "Multiple validation errors ...
Robert A. Weaver
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Nov 26, 2007
12:43 pm
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Please send a zipped copy of your .books file to books@... and I'll investigate the problem. Regarding the quickfill plugins, they are not...
Chris Karr
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Dec 4, 2007
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Hi: I just discovered Books and so far really like it. One thing is bothering me, though. In Books, you can enter more than one genre for a book. However,...
cdodson58401
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Jan 16, 2008
2:08 pm
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This is a bug in the web exporter. I have it on my to-do list to fix. -Chris...
Chris Karr
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Jan 28, 2008
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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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