Hi Ilene, I think that bookshare's engineers are mulling over ideas like yours. They certainly do know that we want a way to search books in progress, and I assume, because I'm hopeful, are working on finding some way for us to do that. You can rest assured that if such a thing happens, someone will let the list know. You are not alone in wanting this kind of thing. And our frantic wishes have been heard. Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ilene Sirocca Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 12:07 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Filter for Duplicates? Hi, Since I don't read every post, I may have missed this if someone else mentioned it, but here goes. Have the Bookshare engineers considered having a filter built into the site so that if we submit our books and they have elements in common with books already in the collection (or even in process, if that's possible) an information box could come up informing us of this? Whether we'd want it to appear only if two or more elements were the same, such as title and author or title and ISBN, or whether we'd like the info to come up even if just the author were the same, i don't know. We could look at the list of similar titles and if we realized we were duplicating we could stop the process. Obviously we would all prefer to catch the fact that we had a duplicate book before we even started scanning, but if we missed that fact somehow this would be a checkpoint. If we wished to continue for any reason we could do so and if necessary explain why in our comments. If this has all been mulled over already, I really do apologize. Ilene To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.