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[mvrdrk]

I've received a cuecat for scanning book ISBNs. Oh my, it's fast! Oh my, data from amazon.com is seriously bad! I'm scanning the kids books. See LibraryThing if you're curious.

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[mangaroo.livejournal.com]

Isn't it amazing? LT fixed the Amazon Japan problem and implemented the new "auto-enter" option on the same day. Since then: scan, scan, scan. (I'm secretly hoping my shoujo titles don't outnumber my BL titles by the time I'm through.) Did you get yours from LT? I was thinking of ordering a back-up, but I'm peeved they haven't declawed theirs.

If I were entering English-language books, I would probably check LOC first, then UC, then Amazon.

[mikeneko.livejournal.com]

You fixed our Amazon add! Sort of. Well, it had the air of being mainly you. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

Indeed! If it hadn't been for mangaroo's identifying the problem, it would have stayed broken. Tim clearly had looked at it and hadn't figured out the problem.

[mangaroo.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That makes me feel less guilty about going head-to-head with Chris/stalepez in a "you are too ignoring me and my needs" whinefest.

I suspect Tim had the correction queued up -- I mean, he made it within 10 minutes of my guess as to what was causing the problem, and they would need some transparently accessible code to make a change that quickly. (They do seem to make all their changes directly to the production environment, which freaks me out.) I'm glad I researched the issue, though, because I had assumed LT's coding was 100% at fault (adding to my disdain), and really Amazon shares the responsibility for not standardizing their XML output. It's a disservice to all developers using Amazon's web services.

[mikeneko.livejournal.com]

head-to-head with Chris/stalepez in a "you are too ignoring me and my needs" whinefest.

Wait, what? I missed something.

I suspect Tim had the correction queued up -- I mean, he made it within 10 minutes of my guess as to what was causing the problem

I'm relieved. Again, thanks so much. Other things are still messed up, but this had become a snowball sort of problem, getting worse and worse.

Still, I'd wandered in late to the denouement, courtesy technical difficulties on the homefront, and I was trying to NOT NOTICE how quickly that had seemed to occur. 'Cause, y'know, this would seem to imply that they'd been observing how people were growing progressively frustrated and sad by their silence on the subject for weeks and they were pointedly blowing us off.

I mean, because that seems rather unkind. So really trying not to leap to that conclusion.

But it left me feeling more grateful to everyone who'd kept that thread alive when it was obviously a waste of time than to LT's staff for the actual fix. *sigh*

(Added you, btw. I keep lecturing myself that I'm not allowed to add anyone new until I clean up my LJ mess, but [fill in random excuses for laziness here].)

[mangaroo.livejournal.com]

Wait, what? I missed something.

See, the clever girl would just keep her mouth shut, but because of the friending, I am obliged to let you know I am a jerk (http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=2823#27727).

Other things are still messed up

I have a couple of friends who won't join until the Japanese character set problems are solved, including author pages (pleeeease), sort order, Asian name order, and the mojibake'd mobile display. Sadness. (Are you watching, unibrain? Is my sorrow moving you?)

[mikeneko.livejournal.com]

Your LT over there is such a . . . weird mix of completely unrelated stuff. Which makes it completely fascinating.

*peers at book* I didn't know there were hot springs that you could hike to. I wanted to see a hot spring . . .

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

Not only that, the book tells you which ones are good for skinny dipping and which ones are not. In fact, the entire focus of that book is 'good places to go skinny dipping in hot springs and the associated % chance of being arrested.'

Not a keeper, in my mind. Do you want it? LOL! I will take you to go see hot springs next time we get together! They're pools of water, like ponds, only without pond scum.

[mikeneko.livejournal.com]

I think I'd be more concerned about being boiled than arrested. We'd both wanted to see a Real Live Hot Spring (not the Yellowstone variety, y'know?), so we took a specific detour after we left Lolo NF. That one turned out to be some sort of resort, and it was closed, and we wound up peering through a window at what looked remarkably like an ordinary swimming pool. So disappointing. Are there really hot springs just . . . out there in the woods?

Re: LT, I figured. But it's entertaining this way.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Don't forget that library consists of 4 persons tastes mashed together.