[bksvol-discuss] Re: renewing downloads
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:28:45 -0800 (PST)
Dan,
From my experience, Gerald is right. Renewals expire
on the 7th day but are renewable on day 5. I didn't
know that about 4:30 a.m.Pacific time, though, Gerald.
That's good to know.
Cindy
--- Gerald Hovas <GeraldHovas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> I don't think this info's on the site or even
> documented anywhere.
>
> As far as I've been able to determine, the book
> expires on the 7th day you
> have it out, and I think the renew link appears on
> the 5th, but I'd renew it
> just as soon as you discover it.
>
> The problem you have to watch for is renewing right
> after midnight if you're
> not on Pacific Time since, as far as I can tell,
> once Bookshare hits
> midnight, you'll be on your second day.
>
> I had a book expire once because I downloaded it
> around 12:30 a.m. Central
> Time then didn't renew when I first had the chance
> thinking I had an
> additional day, because by my count, it was only day
> 5. Bookshare
> apparently considered it day 6, though, because the
> book expired the next
> morning.
>
> BTW, looks like they expire around 4:30 a.m.
> Pacific, so you'll need to
> renew by the night of day 6 unless you're up before
> that time on day 7 and
> can renew it.
>
> Oh yeah, only use this info as a guideline since I'm
> not 100% sure that it's
> correct. The only real way to know is to inspect
> the code or to
> intentionally let books expire in order to test what
> Bookshare's doing, and
> I obviously haven't seen the code, nor have I been
> intentionally letting
> books expire to test how the system truely works.
>
> HTH
>
> Gerald
>
> _____
>
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Dan Beaver
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 7:00 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] renewing downloads
>
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I looked for an answer to this but couldn't find it
> on the download pages.
>
> When I have books downloaded for validation the step
> 2 page shows those
> books and either 2 or 3 choices for each. How long
> before my edit time runs
> out does the renew link appear? After
> downloading/renewing it isn't there
> for at least a couple of days but I am unsure of how
> much leadway it gives
> before time out.
>
> Thanks.
>
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