STHayden's dashboard

STHayden replied on August 25, 2009 17:05 to the question "Book not on list" in Books I Am Reading:

I see stuff that look right if I search for "gone Lisa Gardner" thought it has a different cover.

if you search the ISBN it seems to come right up: 0752878085

STHayden replied on August 25, 2009 16:45 to the question "Book not on list" in Books I Am Reading:

you can't add books that amazon can't find. For simplicity's sake it's going to stay that way for now.

STHayden replied on August 25, 2009 16:43 to the idea "directly add books to books already read" in Books I Am Reading:

in a way this already exists. Once you add the book just edit the info.. you can set the date you started and finished reading.

STHayden replied on August 25, 2009 16:41 to the problem "Can't add books" in Books I Am Reading:

the site has a weird problem of sometimes not signing you in. and so you need to sign in a second time.

no idea why but I'm a designer not a developer so we'll all have to live with it for now

STHayden replied on August 25, 2009 16:40 to the idea "upload lists of aleady-read/to-read books" in Books I Am Reading:

what would the upload format be? Would you have to type out all the isbn?

while an interesting idea I think this is problematic to implement and not that much easier to add a mass collection of books.

thanks for the input though.

STHayden replied on August 25, 2009 16:37 to the problem "Unable to search for and add books" in Books I Am Reading:

amazon changed their request process for books. this should work now

STHayden set one of STHayden's replies as an official response to "Book edit to home button?" in Books I Am Reading

STHayden replied on May 04, 2009 19:03 to the problem "Book edit to home button?" in Books I Am Reading:

just click on the backpack in the top right to get back to your main page.

STHayden replied on January 13, 2009 21:43 to the problem "Fix email validation to allow plus sign in local part" in Books I Am Reading:

I agree the + sigh should work! do you know a good regex script that will account for that? I just grab something quick of a site.

thanks!

STHayden replied on November 26, 2008 21:10 to the problem "MySQL ERROR" in Books I Am Reading:

thanks... I'll look in to that one

STHayden replied on November 19, 2008 12:53 to the problem ""I want to read" button shows on books I'm currently reading" in Books I Am Reading:

currently every book displays in 2 different modes.

one is just a normal book page:
http://www.booksiamreading.com/book/t...

the other is a book page for a book on your list:
http://www.booksiamreading.com/stefan...

the page for the book on your list knows if you have read the book or not. The normal book page is not as smart.

thanks!

STHayden replied on November 19, 2008 12:50 to the idea "Community information on book pages?" in Books I Am Reading:

great idea thanks. Yes I've been planning on adding something like that for a while. Just trying to figure out th best way to display the data.

STHayden replied on November 13, 2008 15:46 to the question ""Frozen" Books" in Books I Am Reading:

definitely sounds like a weird problem. what's your username?

as far as I can tell these features are working.

removing a book from the "given up list" can be a challenge. you need to edit the book and clear the time stamps for everything but the date you wanted to read it.

hope that helps!

STHayden replied on November 13, 2008 00:47 to the idea "Remember Logins" in Books I Am Reading:

it's on a short list.

STHayden replied on November 11, 2008 04:44 to the idea "How do I start reading a book? HELP!" in Books I Am Reading:

to read a book you can either hover over the title and select "read" on the left when it appears.. or click the title and then click the "read" button to the right of the book cover

STHayden replied on October 22, 2008 21:39 to the question "I cannot fill my BIAR list" in Books I Am Reading:

once you sign in you will be put on your home page which has a search box. you need to search for a book and then click on one for the books that appear in the drop down.

only after you add books to your main page can you use the embed code in the account section.

STHayden replied on October 13, 2008 21:55 to the question "Blogging books I've read" in Books I Am Reading:

probably... BIAR has over 1000 members but only 1 - 200 page views a day. it's a small operation so far.

STHayden replied on October 13, 2008 16:30 to the question "Posting a reading list to a blog?" in Books I Am Reading:

if you check your account section there are now javascript embeds to show your books on you website

STHayden replied on October 13, 2008 16:29 to the question "Search function not working?" in Books I Am Reading:

I think I fixed the search problem.... amazon does not like URL encoded search terms. doh!

STHayden replied on October 13, 2008 16:28 to the question "Blogging books I've read" in Books I Am Reading:

if you check your account section there are now javascript embeds to show your books on you website.