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Newbie Bookmoocher Thread : This is the place for new members to get info on Bookmooching
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re: inventory
You can put your account on vacation by clicking the Account button on your home page, and it will suspend your inventory from being listed when moochers are doing searches. You'll still get wish list notifications. When you want to mark somehing received or do a search or add to your wish list, you de-vacation yourself by logging in again each time and, as I remember, you have to click a button and fill in the security check line to confirm you're back from vacation. Then after you've done whatever you went into your account to do, make sure to put yourself back on vacation. I did this when my handy branch post office closed and it took me a couple of weeks to figure out where I could send books without standing in the long lines at our main PO. It worked very well excpet for one time when I forgot to re-vacation myself and a request came through because my inentory was accessible again. If I'm wrong about this, please will some member of longer standing correct me.
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Margaret H.
12 years ago
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re: Email problems
I did eventually hear from the new member that the email address had been revised - I don't know whether he read the line in my status notes or if the mooch-cancellation message was delivered, even though it seemed to have bounced back. The book was re-requested, I sent it, and I hope all's well now.
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Margaret H.
12 years ago
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re: Email problems
Thanks, Cara. I'm so computer-baclward that I'd hoped the Tech Support team had Mysterious Powers and could somehow send the new member a communication that'd punch through whatever it is that's rejecting my emails. I guess I can only hope the member might look in the rejection section, as I did detail the reason there. I also put a line at the top of my Status notes, in case he/she checked my home page after not getting any return email about the mooch request.
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Margaret H.
12 years ago
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re: adding book to wishlist(trisha ashley - magic of christmas).
It seems as if anthologies often come up especially strangely. I've had several appear, using the Amazon link, that show the name of one of the authors of a story as the author of the whole thing, rather than showing the editor's name (like Jakubowski). Sometimes, by trying out different combinations of part of the title, a plus sign, then part of the author/editor's name, I've found one that's correct. The nice thing is that, since we have an unlimited wish list here, we can add any or all of them and so feel more secure that we'll be notified when a copy becomes available.
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Margaret H.
12 years ago
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re: adding a book to wishlist.
You might try just using "Magic of Christmas" + Ashley. to see if you get a more complete listing. Or use Trisha instead of Ashley. Last night I was looking for books by Michael Pearce, who's written a couple of dozen mysteries, so I entered "Michael Pearce" into the Amazon search blank - the lowest one on the page after you get the message that nothing could be found on BM when you've tried searching using the blank at the top of every page. What I got was one book by him that seemed to be in German, so I tried Pearce + Dead, which is a word in a lot of his titles, and from that got the Amazon listings I wanted. You just have to keep trying different combinations and sometimes you'll get a breakthrough to the right listing so you can add it. Good luck.
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Margaret H.
12 years ago
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re: Adding to book descriptions?
Well, it's very odd - I followed the Amazon link, where the two books by Kenneth Cameron were listed with their author's name, so I clicked on Add to Inventory. I got a screen saying they already were in my inventory, so I went there and deleted them, then went back through the Amazon link and tried again to add them, which it did, but still without the author's name. I think the next step is your add-review option. Thanks for your help.
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Margaret H.
12 years ago
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