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Spam accounts by the hundred... including spam book registrations
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RE: RE: Spam accounts by the hundred... including spam book registrations
thebiblioholic
1 wk ago
And tons of member profile photos are being uploaded that are advertisements.
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[TECH TEAM ARE INVESTIGATING] Book registrations are not working well today
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RE: RE: Book registrations are not working well ...
thebiblioholic
7 mos ago
[[but some minutes ago I registered four books
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/17028737
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Does anyone remember Sherlockfan? PLEASE SEE EDWARDSTREET'S THREAD
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RE: Does anyone remember Sherlockfan?
thebiblioholic
8 mos ago
I was wondering how she was doing. Thanks for the update. Sorry to hear of her difficulties.
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[TECH TEAM ARE INVESTIGATING] Book registrations are not working well today
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RE: Nothing has changed for me
thebiblioholic
8 mos ago
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I've been away for a few weeks, and while I was away there was an announcement that things were "fixed". But your post is very familiar and suggests that everything remains as broken as before. :-( (I haven't tried re…
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[TECH TEAM ARE INVESTIGATING] Book registrations are not working well today
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RE: RE: Can't register books
thebiblioholic
9 mos ago
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Any confirmation that someone is actively working on this? "It's sporadic" and "try again", "don't search" is wearing thin...
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[TECH TEAM ARE INVESTIGATING] Book registrations are not working well today
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Concurrency
thebiblioholic
9 mos ago
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I was on a roll successfully looking up and registering books just now. I was getting sequential BCIDs. Then it failed. And when I retried I noticed my next BCID had a gap. Then a few more successful ones. I notice …
thebiblioholic
10 mos ago
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dZznfGPYRY&ab_channel=FlippedandMarked
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[TECH TEAM ARE INVESTIGATING] Book registrations are not working well today
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RE: RE: Book registrations are not working well today
thebiblioholic
10 mos ago
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[[Same thing here. I've just registered 40 books (donation to our LFL) and 39/40 I had to enter manually. ]]
I may give up and my pile of books to be registered may go to my local LFL without BCID.
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[TECH TEAM ARE INVESTIGATING] Book registrations are not working well today
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RE: RE: Book registrations not working
thebiblioholic
10 mos ago
This has been my experience lately, and it is frustrating.
Time of day is an interesting point. When I have been successful in the recent past I noticed that I was mostly getting consecutive BCIDs, i.e. no one else…
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[TECH TEAM ARE INVESTIGATING] Book registrations are not working well today
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There's more to this than a "quota"
thebiblioholic
10 mos ago
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I just tried registering a book by searching. It found it, including the correct cover picture, but when I selected it and went to step 2 it said "Error: Sorry, there was a problem processing your request. Please rechec…
thebiblioholic
10 mos ago
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When I searched for a child detective named Djuna it came up with Ellery Queen's The Dutch Shoe Mystery as the third guess after Enyclopedia Brown and Nancy Drew...
thebiblioholic
10 mos ago
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[[[[I have to say I don't see the thought behind sorting/displaying by color - ]]
I wouldn't do that, but there are people who remember books by their physical appearance: "I can't remember the author, but I know the…
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[TECH TEAM ARE INVESTIGATING] Book registrations are not working well today
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RE: RE: This has been an ongoing problem with the past 2 weeks for me!!
thebiblioholic
10 mos ago
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I get the sense this is a long standing issue that is unlikely to be definitively resolved if it is believed to be some external throttle or constraint or some other hand-wavy excuse and everyone is just pointed at manua…
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[TECH TEAM ARE INVESTIGATING] Book registrations are not working well today
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RE: RE: Still glitchy
thebiblioholic
11 mos ago
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And two tries to release the batch of books. Just froze halfway through. Feels a little sluggish now as well. I am not on here as often as I used to be. Is it always like this?
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[TECH TEAM ARE INVESTIGATING] Book registrations are not working well today
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Still glitchy
thebiblioholic
11 mos ago
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Searching by ISBN takes multiple attempts, as well as multiple attempts after a successful search before it takes you to the registration form. Then the registration itself fails repeatedly, refreshing and resubmitting …
thebiblioholic
1 yr ago
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Congrats! My 20th is today.
thebiblioholic
1 yr ago
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[[I haven’t logged into these forums for years, and the moment I do, I see them awash with familiar faces, ]]
Indeed. I'm rarely on, except to register/release books once in a while.
thebiblioholic
1 yr ago
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So 20 years ago today, I joined BookCrossing. Wow. Time flies...
thebiblioholic
1 yr ago
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A year later and this is the thread that support referred me to today for a problem I reported yesterday. It seems to me that registering a book is THE most fundamental function of this web site and yet a bug in registe…
thebiblioholic
1 yr ago
Just tried to register a book and it failed when selecting the match after ISBN search. Going back in the browser and trying again I got further before it failed and gave a stack trace instead. I tried mailing the stac…
thebiblioholic
2 yrs ago
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For those of you who were around a long time ago and knew her, I wanted to share the sad news I just received. Greedyreader passed away in the early hours of Oct. 9, 2021 after a year long illness. She spent her last d…
thebiblioholic
2 yrs ago
Sorry I missed it though. I didn't hear about it until I just saw this thread. I don't check the forums much any more. Maybe next time...
thebiblioholic
3 yrs ago
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Found two of them today when I was releasing some books:
yonkers
Yonkers
I used the correctly capitalized one.
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[Update!] Temperamental issue with book search functionality
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Still broken?
thebiblioholic
3 yrs ago
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I sent a message to support and they linked me back to this thread.
I had a frustrating time trying to register a stack of books yesterday. Often searching would find the book, but then selecting it would give an err…
thebiblioholic
4 yrs ago
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Just started reading this book (fiction) by Christine Feret-FLeury and was surprised on page 28 when two of the characters discuss "wild releasing" books, and how an American named Ron Hornbaker created BookCrossing in 2…
