[bksvol-discuss] Re: Pet Peeve

  • From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:28:26 -0500

Lynnsky, I'm sending you a big cyberhug!!  Thanks!!!!!

Sue S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Lynn I
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 6:02 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Pet Peeve


Hi Sue,

All I did was highlight the material I wanted to copy; then did a (ctrl c) 
and copied it to the clipboard. Then I inserted it into the e-mail message.

To me, it looks the same even when I insert it into Notepad. The "and" is 
still there. And it is not the (&) symbol, but the word itself.

Blessings.

Lynn I

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: siss52
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 5:57 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Pet Peeve


  Hi Lynnsky!!

  Bravo for yoou!  That is exactly what I am talking about.  Thanks for 
these examples because I did not know how to copy them.  But Carrie still 
may not believe it.  She said that when she copies them to an email it shows 
up as and.

  Carrie, go to it like we would, not like you would.

  Sue S.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lynn I
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 5:53 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Pet Peeve


  Hi Carrie and Sue,

  I didn't read the beginning of this thread so I hope I'm not 
misunderstanding what you're referring to, Sue.

  On the (browse new books) page books  by multiple authors are being 
presented with an "and" between author names. Here are some examples I 
copied from that page.

  block quote

  Martin And Meditations On The South Valley by Baca, Jimmy Santiago  .
  and Levertov, Denise

  How To Be An Egyptian Princess by Morley, Jacqueline  .
  and Hewetson, Nicholas J.

  Japanese Light by Baldwin, Jan  .
  and Barber, Kimiko

    block quote end

    HTH

    Blessings.

    Lynn I

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Carrie Karnos
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 5:30 PM
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Pet Peeve


    Hi Sue,

    When I look at the new books page, I see dots between author names, no 
"and"s anywhere in the author field. Maybe screen readers convert dots to 
"and"s? No idea.

    Carrie




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    From: siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2009 2:58:07 PM
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Pet Peeve


    Carrie,

    When I look at the new books page, I see it as "and".  That is how I 
found those two examples today.  I did not get them from John's list.  Not 
on the book information page, but on the page people see before they click 
on that page.

    Sue S.

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Carrie Karnos
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 4:32 PM
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Pet Peeve


    Now I'm really confused. I don't see the word "and" anywhere in the 
metadata for The Coral Reef. Its authors are Karen Zipkas <dot> Mark Norman. 
And if you look on its book information page, you can find "Other books by 
Karen Zipkas" and "Other books by Mark Norman", meaning that the system 
thinks that they are two separate authors.

    I may have solved the mystery. I just copied the author field over to 
this email, and it was copied as "Karen Zipkas and Mark Norman" even though 
on the screen it's Karen Zipkas <dot> Mark Norman. Maybe whenever the system 
sees the <dot> between author names, it says "and" instead. Has it always 
done this, or is this saying "and" new?

    In any event, the system is not concatenating two author names as one, 
which was my main concern.

    Carrie




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    From: siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2009 1:39:16 PM
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Pet Peeve



    Hi Carrie,

    Two of them are The Coral Reef, and The Grand Inquisitor.  There are 
more, I know.  But I found these two in the second hundred books.

    Sue S.





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