Thanks, Michael! I've wanted to use the widget several times when writing a review as well. It's such a quick and easy widget to use, and you can easily and quickly make sure that the link you are adding is going where you want it to go.

we expanded on the format a little bit and made the links direct to book/show rather than to the search page. So if you did a link to a book "pride" the old way it would probably link to "pride and prejudice" as thats the first search result. I highly recommend using the "add book/author" widget for that reason.


brenda, i'll add it to that page when i get a chance.

It would be nice if the "add book/author" was an option in the edit review. If I want to refer to another book in my review, I've been using the link code. It works but I guess I'm lazy and the "add book/author" would be so much easier.

Oh...you know, I've never actually used that and was only barely aware it existed. Have to try to remember it from now on...

I think we are supposed to use the add book/author widget instead now. The [:] tags have always had problems.

I can't recall how using [ book: ] and [ author: ] used to work, but they can definitely be problematic now.

For example if I use the author tag to try to refer to author John Moore the link actually goes to the profile of Anne Franke.

If I use the book tag to refer to a book titled Morningstar it goes to the book Marjorie Morningstar rather than the book I wanted.

I have a notion that these tags used to actually do a search for the keyword...now they seem to just jump to the best guess, which is often wrong... I've gotten used to hardcoding the direct link to what I want, but it would be nice if these codes were a bit more useful.