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What Rachael said. I find it quicker to type the code than to find a converter, but it's just a personal preference.
Marco wrote: "How did you do the html without it actually coming up as the link?"You have to escape the special characters so the browser knows to post them rather than use them. You can memorize the most frequently used characters if you do it often enough. For example, "<" will get you "<" and ">" will get you ">". However, I generally find it easier to use a converter rather than type it all myself. If you search escape html code you'll get a bunch of results for converters where you type the html code and it will give you what to post to make it display rather than be read and used by the browser.
Cyn wrote: "How did you make the link? The method with square brackets and "book:" doesn't actually work, unfortunately. I wish they'd change the instructions!You can link pretty easily using HTML. Copy the ..."
How did you do the html without it actually coming up as the link?
No, not joking. Selective blindness I suppose. It's amazing how much I learn all the time here.Oh, it's so easy and handy. Thanks Goodreads! A very special thanks to you Sandi. I wonder when I would have noticed that!
Lisa wrote: "Wow! Sandi, When did that show up?! I just saw it when you mentioned it in the last post. How very cool and it's a time saver. I've been going to books and clicking in the blog this book and copyin..."At first I thought you must be joking, Lisa, because it's been there for quite some time now. You can still use the "add book/author" link to select the edition of your choice. Once you find your title, there is an link for "other editions" under the "add" button. Or sometimes I'll copy the ISBN number from the book page and use that to search out the exact right edition.
Wow! Sandi, When did that show up?! I just saw it when you mentioned it in the last post. How very cool and it's a time saver. I've been going to books and clicking in the blog this book and copying and pasting, which takes much more time, although I can select the edition of my choice that way. But, thanks!
Personally, I love the "add book/author" link at the top of the comment box. It makes it so easy to add links to books in your comments.
Between writing up the bug and posting the link in a comment, I discovered that the square bracket link did work if I added in |40483. A lot less action for the html-challenged than the href method. (I seem to have a mental block about html).
How did you make the link? The method with square brackets and "book:" doesn't actually work, unfortunately. I wish they'd change the instructions!You can link pretty easily using HTML. Copy the URL of the page for the book, then use this code:
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40483.Story_of_O">The Story of O</a>
Which should give you this:
The Story of O
I wanted link to the Story of O but the link goes to quite another book - The Great Gatsby. Strange, eh?
