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alarob
13 yrs ago
| 3 replies
Three reasons I’ve drifted away from BookCrossing:
1. Relatively few BCers actually journal books, beyond “Got it,” “read it,” “sending it on.” The site developers don’t have any significant control over that.
2.…
alarob
13 yrs ago
Nothing has changed concerning the formatting and ignored HTML tags. Has the patch been applied?
alarob
15 yrs ago
| 4 replies
1. Log out of bookcrossing.com, or allow your login to lapse.
2. Go to the main page and enter the BCID of a book. (I used the ID of a book I had released, as I wanted to update its status.)
3. At the Journal Entry pa…
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Display problem on long entries
alarob
16 yrs ago
| 1 replies
Here are two journal entries that are cut off.
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/332008
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/332832
In the first case the truncation is in the middle of a blockquote, so the next entry is…
alarob
16 yrs ago
| 2 replies
I have been looking at journal entries I made as far back as 2004. The longer ones get truncated; for example, http://bookcrossing.com/journal/332008
When I select "Edit" I can see the entire text of the entry, but the …
alarob
18 yrs ago
Seems like bad writers can't understand why using a brand name is not sufficient description. Take, for example, hack writer William Diehl. Here's my journaling on his book "Chameleon": http://www.bookcrossing.com/journa…
alarob
18 yrs ago
3rd series, vol. 62, no. 4 (Oct. 2005)
alarob
18 yrs ago
I'm fasting for Ramadan, but had to drive across the state this morning -- so as a traveler, I'm exempt for today, and the chips were the last thing I ate.
BTW the people who came up with these chips are geniuses. To…
alarob
18 yrs ago
alarob
18 yrs ago
| 4 replies
One of the random quotes: "It is better to have read and released, than to never have read at all"
Please revise that to "... than never to have read at all"
It's closer to the maxim that's being parodied, and hey,…
alarob
18 yrs ago
... in my grad-school apartment in Auburn, Alabama. I try to keep all the BX books together, and intend to release several here.
alarob
18 yrs ago
Yes - he's written /Fury/ (2001, I think) and has another one in the works.
alarob
19 yrs ago
| 7 replies
> Have we ever heard which functions on the
> site are the most bandwidth-intensive? Is
> it the book database? Is it the forums?
One thing that certainly adds a drain is pictures. One picture can use as much ser…
alarob
19 yrs ago
alarob
19 yrs ago
> I'm disappointed that the undertaker does
> NOT appear to offer prompt 24/7 service
> for grievers on this thread. Maybe the
> intake volume is a bit overwhelming right
> now.
It may be so. No sooner did I f…
alarob
19 yrs ago
The most memorable "guide" to types of pagan I've seen is a list of light-bulb jokes. (Offered in a spirit of _gentle_ parody, and assuming that the joke writers are all pagans themselves.)
Q. How many Pagans does it …
alarob
19 yrs ago
alarob
19 yrs ago
alarob
19 yrs ago
two- or four-legged.
alarob
19 yrs ago
| 2 replies
That was a VERY good flick. And I've never been tempted by it to go check Dick's story /Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/ http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_androids.html
I mean, the title tells you all you …
alarob
19 yrs ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=iain+pears
alarob
19 yrs ago
| 2 replies
I thought there was a definite falling off between /The Moor's Last Sigh/ and /The Ground Beneath Her Feet/. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Ground_Beneath_Her_Feet
What really did it for me was when Ormus, in the mi…
alarob
19 yrs ago
of making more eggs.
