Hi, You may be able to check out your book if it gets released but you run into a problem there. The problem is what if someone checks your book out before you do, what then? Jackie On 3/20/12, Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Oh, thanks Mayrie. I've used that search feature but it's never gone beyond > the first page for me; or I've been too impatient when I've gotten no > result. Anyway, apparently the renew-when-the notice is sent-out-feature > isn't working today, though it did the other day. > > Cindy > Join us in celebrating our 10th Anniversary! > > TinyURL.com/752cyrs > > > > > > >>________________________________ >> From: Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> >>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 10:04 PM >>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: news re renewals >> >> >>Hi Cindy, >> >>There's a simple way to find your book on the checkout > pages! There's an edit field just above the list of books available for > checkout in which you can type either the title or the author of a book that > you > think is available for checkout. Then click the search button and when the > page refreshes all titles or authors that have in them what you typed will > show > and no other results. You don't need to do this for every single page of > results that are possible to see. Search on the first page, and the search > will automatically search following pages without you needing to go to > them. >> >>Hope that helps! It saves me a lot of time! As > long as I remember either the title or the author of my lapsed > book. >> >>Mayrie >> >> >> >>________________________________ >> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy >>Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 9:42 PM >>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: news re > renewals >> >> >>Not-so-good news re renewals. This evening I got the notice that my book > was about to expire and went to renew it but the renewal option isn't > there. Like Valerie, the notice is 2 days in advance. Today is the > 19th and I see the book expires on the 21st. I hope I remember to check > tomorrow > or the 21st. I (and probably most of you) get busy and forget to check our > books > out. Then we get the notice that the book has been released and we can > either > let it go and let someone else take it if we haven't done a lot of work > and don't care, or we have to go through the waiting that's involved to find > it > on the right page of books ready for checkout and check it out > again >> >>Cindy >>Join us in celebrating our 10th Anniversary! >> >>TinyURL.com/752cyrs >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>________________________________ >>> From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> >>>To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 1:49 AM >>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: good news re renewals >>> >>> >>>Good luck. Let us know if it really is fixed and works for you. >>> >>>Cindy >>>Join us in celebrating our 10th Anniversary! >>> >>>TinyURL.com/752cyrs >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>________________________________ >>>> From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>>Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 10:58 PM >>>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: good news re renewals >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>I have a book due in two days, have not gotten a renewal notice, but >>>> neitehr is renew available yet. Hopefully soon! >>>> >>>> Valerie >>>> >>>> >>>>Join us in celebrating our 10th Anniversary! >>>>Bookshare: Bringing > Reading to Life for 10 Years >>>>http://www.bookshare.org/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>>From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> >>>>>To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>>>Sent: Sat, March 17, 2012 12:38:00 AM >>>>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] good news re renewals >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> A short while ago I received an email that one of my books was about >>>>> to expire. I went to my list of books, which opened with reasonable >>>>> speed, and the renewal link was there. I clicked it (a couple of >>>>> times, because at first nothing happened), and after a few minutes >>>>> the screen changed and my book had been renewed >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Cindy >>>>>Join us in celebrating our 10th Anniversary! >>>>> >>>>>TinyURL.com/752cyrs >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> -- Currently Reading: The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan and Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins 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.