[bksvol-discuss] Re: Pet Peeve

  • From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:30:51 -0700 (PDT)

Hi Sue,

When I look at the new books page, I see dots between author names, no "and"s 
anywhere in the author field. Maybe screen readers convert dots to "and"s? No 
idea.

Carrie




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From: siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2009 2:58:07 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Pet Peeve

 
Carrie,
 
When I look at the new books page, I see it as 
"and".  That is how I found those two examples today.  I did not get 
them from John's list.  Not on the book information page, but on the page 
people see before they click on that page.
 
Sue S.
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Carrie Karnos 
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 4:32 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Pet Peeve

Now I'm really confused. I don't see the word "and" anywhere in the 
metadata for The Coral Reef. Its authors are Karen Zipkas <dot> Mark 
Norman. And if you look on its book information page, you can find "Other books 
by Karen Zipkas" and "Other books by Mark Norman", meaning that the system 
thinks that they are two separate authors.

I may have solved the mystery. 
I just copied the author field over to this email, and it was copied as "Karen 
Zipkas and Mark Norman" even though on the screen it's Karen Zipkas <dot> 
Mark Norman. Maybe whenever the system sees the <dot> between author 
names, it says "and" instead. Has it always done this, or is this saying "and" 
new?

In any event, the system is not concatenating two author names as 
one, which was my main concern.

Carrie




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 From: siss52 
<siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2009 1:39:16 
PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] 
Re: Pet Peeve

 
 
Hi Carrie,
 
Two of them are The Coral Reef, and The Grand 
Inquisitor.  There are more, I know.  But I found these two in the 
second hundred books.
 
Sue S.
 

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