[bksvol-discuss] Re: old mysteries
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:45:21 -0700 (PDT)
They may be working on it, or some similar bugs--but
maybe in fixing the others this new one was caused. A
couple of us had trouble a while back finding some M.
M. Kaye books that were in the collection and Claire
mentioned there was a bug that was going to be fixed.
Cindy
--- Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Cindy,
>
> I just put in 'Biggers' before, in the simple
> search box. Just now I tried 'Earl Derr Biggers'
> and found the book again using the simple search.
> Haven't tried the advanced search option yet. Okay,
> just tried 'Earl Derr Biggers' and the advanced
> search didn't find the book. Obviously a bug in the
> system. I'll let Claire know, and she can enter a
> problem report for it. Thanks for catching it!
>
> Carrie
>
> Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Carrie,
>
> How did you find the Biggers book? I put his name in
> the author space,using advanced search, with and
> without capitals, with all and only parts of the
> name,
> and both logged in and not logged in, and nothing
> came
> up. I also put the title into the title space. the
> only way I could get to it was to click on your URL.
> How did you find it?
>
> But maybe it's something with my browser. Last night
> I
> couldn't get either Jake's list of new books or the
> Browse new books via firefox. I finally got it via
> IE.
>
> Cindy
>
> --- Carrie Karnos wrote:
>
> > Hi Cindy,
> >
> > There's one book by Earl Derr Biggers called The
> > Agony Column at
> >
>
http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=1347.
> > It says it has 74 pages, which doesn't sound right
> > to me. Maybe someone could scan and resubmit it,
> to
> > get the pages correct, if indeed the page
> numbering
> > is off.
> >
> > There are 5 books by Dorothy L. Sayers in the
> > collection. Evidently the engineers changed how
> > searches work recently, so that if you search for
> > 'Dorothy Sayers', it won't find any books. If you
> > type in 'Dorothy L Sayers'. it won't find any, but
> > if you type in 'Dorothy L. Sayers', then you'll
> find
> > her 5 books (one of which is 4 novels in one
> book).
> >
> > HTH, Carrie
> >
> > Grandma Cindy
> wrote:
> > My folks had the complete set of Charlie Chan
> > mysteries. I read them all, and could never figure
> > out in advance who the culprit was; of course, I
> was
> > a
> > kid then. The author of the series was Earl Derr
> > Biggers. I checked and none of his books are in
> the
> > collection. As I recall they were well-written and
> > enjoyable mysteries, but of course that was a lot
> of
> > years ago.
> >
> > I don't know how many of dorothy Sayers' mysteries
> > are
> > in the collection. When I put her whole name in
> > nothing showed up. When I put in just sayers
> several
> > did show up,but I don't know how many she wrote.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> > --- the ppardees wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Monica,
> > > I'm glad a few hours of work made your day.
> > >
> > > I also like the old mysteries.
> > > My mother used to read them aloud.
> > > Let me know of any you might like scanned or
> > > rescanned.
> > >
> > > Perchance, do you remember the ones by Dorothy
> > > Sayers starring A C
> > > Mayo? when asked how he found a lost horse said,
> > > "I asked myself if I
> > > was a horse where would I go and I went there
> and
> > I
> > > was.
> > >
> > > I don't think any are on Bookshare.
> > >
> > > Jim Pardee
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > At 01:34 AM 7/12/07, you wrote:
> > >
> > > >Monica
> > >
> > >
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