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Maxwell Park
eastbaybookmisr
1 mo ago
This one is going to be a struggle session to decide.
Maxwell Park is the name of the district, and also the school across the street, and also the park. The actual address in the park is 4618 Allendale Ave., when I s…
Region Cleanup: Cities & Crossing Zones
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USA > California > Oakland LFL project tidy up
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duplicates on Maybelle
eastbaybookmisr
1 mo ago
These two are duplicates, with varied names, so not obvious, and should be merged
http://www.bookcrossing.com/hunt/1/5/2283/698711 (original)
http://www.bookcrossing.com/hunt/1/5/2283/773378
Region Cleanup: Cities & Crossing Zones
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[DONE] USA > Colorado > Lakewood LFL project tidy up
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Universal change of Little Free Library by address to LFL by street
eastbaybookmisr
1 mo ago
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I suppose I will just adapt to this unwanted universal change, sigh. I have no idea if it was discussed, but of course the risk is that nobody who is looking for a release zone or creating a new one will have the slighte…
Bugs and Broken Bits Reporting
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[ANSWERED] Broken from start to finish
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RE: RE: Broken from start to finish
eastbaybookmisr
6 mos ago
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It's just awful. I encounter the error continuously, for going on months now. It's that big yellow error text, when trying to register a book. Sometimes it clears, on using the back button, and then on retry. But times l…
Chit-Chat
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Found a book today that was released in 2007!
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RE: Found a book today that was released in 2007!
eastbaybookmisr
1 yr ago
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That beats me. This past season or so I found two locally from 2009, by a formerly active mass releaser. I used to collect many of her books from the usual library drop off zone some miles away, but these two finds were …
eastbaybookmisr
1 yr ago
I was thinking along those lines. I realize that the site is tiny in its infrastructure footprint, but it astounds me that any web site with membership in the millions, almost a quarter century beyond the era of Y2k, sti…
Region Cleanup: Cities & Crossing Zones
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[DONE] Little Free Library # in Release Zone name
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RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Little Free Library # in Release Zone name
eastbaybookmisr
2 yrs ago
This is one that I believe was changed to include the Charter # first. https://www.bookcrossing.com/hunt/1/5/1685/797975
It does show the address now, at the end, so it is not as big of a problem. But of course with t…
Region Cleanup: Cities & Crossing Zones
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[DONE] Little Free Library # in Release Zone name
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RE: RE: RE: RE: Little Free Library # in Release Zone name
eastbaybookmisr
2 yrs ago
| 4 replies
Sure, you can move this thread, if that helps.
I think your explanation is probably the source of the issue.
But I think the problem is just self-explanatory, from the point of why BookCrossing exists. The only tru…
Region Cleanup: Cities & Crossing Zones
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[DONE] Little Free Library # in Release Zone name
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RE: RE: Little Free Library # in Release Zone name
eastbaybookmisr
2 yrs ago
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It is definitely coming from BookCrossing, as a *feature* or a bug.
I have had to repair numerous zones that I manage, which were altered, starting about Fall of last year.
I noticed it only because when I hunted …
eastbaybookmisr
2 yrs ago
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I don't see that this has been discussed, but within the past half year, I have been greatly annoyed by Release Zone names being changed from "Little Free Library at xxxx St." to "Little Free Library #xxxx"
This seems…
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness
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[CLOSED] Book & Bookmark Sweepstakes - June/July 2021
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RE: RE: VS: RE: Sent mine
eastbaybookmisr
2 yrs ago
Ira Levin. He is a fantastic story teller.
Bugs and Broken Bits Reporting
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member location fields are not reporting
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RE: RE: member location fields are not reporting
eastbaybookmisr
8 yrs ago
Looks okay for me now today. I guess it was just a temporary generalized locations field display glicth systemwide.
eastbaybookmisr
8 yrs ago
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I just noticed this, and it seems to be on every member's profile.
In the edit view, the location fields are still populated with the original data.
eastbaybookmisr
8 yrs ago
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Same exact problem now with me.
My confirmation email was dated April 13.
Thank you for your order!
Order Number: 97387
You can check the order and your account here:
http://secure.bookcrossing.com/customer…
eastbaybookmisr
9 yrs ago
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[[ How do you label your books? These are my wild book catch rates:
Released in the wild: 237
Wild releases journalled: 72 ]]
Those are impressive stats. I think that printed labels might matter a lot. I never use t…
eastbaybookmisr
9 yrs ago
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[[ Congratulations eastbaybookmisr!! ]]
Thanks! At this rate, I might get two or three catches this century! :)
Some years ago I found a bunch of wild-released books over a period of months, but all were released f…
Release Techniques
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I've never found a 'wild' book :-(
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RE: RE: I've never found a wild book, either
eastbaybookmisr
9 yrs ago
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[[ the books always 'vanish' but rarely get journalled ...I wonder where they go...]]
I just found out today. FINALLY, after EIGHT LONG YEARS, and with over 300 wild releases, I just had my very first instance of a tr…
eastbaybookmisr
11 yrs ago
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I read the hunger games trilogy, i keept hearing everyone say how good the books were as well as the movie, but i was disapointed in the books.Interesting, this is the kind of negative review…
eastbaybookmisr
11 yrs ago
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What, nobody likes slightly stale mystery thrillers?
I love mystery thrillers, espcecially the debuts.
I don't need more books, but all of these remaining listed above sound good to me. In particular I have started…
Book Talk
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Books like "Rebecca", "The Forgotten Garden"???
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RE: How about "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins?
eastbaybookmisr
11 yrs ago
I kind of remember it meeting your criteria.Well, I had to skim through Moonstone, although I greatly enjoyed his earlier mystery, The Woman in White. It's long, but it was originally seriali…
eastbaybookmisr
11 yrs ago
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I listened to this one a couple of years ago, and it has a house on the moors, pirates, mystery... a good one.Yes, I liked Jamaica Inn better than Rebecca. And Jamaica Inn made for a terrific…
eastbaybookmisr
11 yrs ago
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Ralesstone Luck, 1938, by Andre Norton was sort of up this alley. I rather enjoyed it. It was her debut novel, I believe. She is mostly known for her later sf work, but this one was quite unique. And yes, of course, it d…
eastbaybookmisr
12 yrs ago
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I cannot find any previous thread on this, but I thought I had mentioned it a year or so ago. I figured I would bring it up again, since we are now long past the Beta phase.
On a bookshelf, when a non-winged member su…
eastbaybookmisr
12 yrs ago
1985 Robots: Machines in Man's Image
by Isaac Asimov and Karen A. Frenkel
Wished for on 8/23/2008
Not to be confused with his fictional robots series.
This is not really my oldest, oldest wish, but it's the oldes…
eastbaybookmisr
12 yrs ago
.. the main character is a self centered, unlikable person.Umm... I guess that would be Katniss, the teenage girl who sacrificed herself by volunteering for near-certain death, in order to …
