[bksvol-discuss] Need Help Solving a Mystery

  • From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:37:00 -0400

Guys, I have a little mystery I'd like your help with. In checking on a series 
Lissi and I are working on, something strange is happening with one of the 
books. The most recent book we did in this series, The Going Rate, by John 
Brady, only shows up in the list of his books when I click on the link to the 
author's name. If I type in the title, or the author's name, or both, into the 
Advanced search field, the book does not show up. If I enter John Brady into 
the 
Advanced search field and go to the relevant author, all eight of the other 
books we did come up, (and a ninth book about interviewing which I think is by 
a different John Brady), but not The Going Rate, which is the most recent one 
we did. I'm wondering if anyone else here would care to try entering the title 
or author into the Advanced search field and see what happens. Also, if anyone 
has any idea why the book doesn't show up for me under normal searching, I'd 
appreciate hearing about it. I do frequent searches for myself and Lissi to 
determine whether something is in the collection in order to figure out what 
books to try to get to scan, and it disturbs me a bit to find out that just 
typing in a title does not necessarily bring up the book even if it is in the 
collection, or entering an author does not necessarily bring up all of their 
books that are in the collection. I've made sure my settings bring up books of 
all qualities, and besides, this book was just recently approved and is in 
excellent condition, having been proofread by the very best proofreader around. 
I'm biased, I admit. <smile>

Anyway, I'd be interested in hearing what other people find. If others of you 
get the same results, then I think someone at Bookshare needs to look into the 
matter. Thanks much.

Evan

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