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karen, future RA queen
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Feb 14, 2011 06:24AM
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I motion that Esteban be struck from the group for his unhelpful exclamation!
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I recommend Eh?/! read a book on butts. Big butts, hairy butts, etc.
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I've moved! I'm over at the flagpole!
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karen! If you want to keep a certain topic at the top of a folder, like your "let's get to it" thread in the "so ask already!" folder:-click on the folder from your group page
-click the "edit" to the right of the thread you want to feature
-select "mark this topic as important (it will be listed first)"
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I only say this because the "funny but not quirky" RA thread is already 35 posts long and a lot of the recs are just in italics or regular text. If they were all in html links, if you read someone's initial query and agreed you could just look to the right side of your screen and see every recommendation without reading the entire thread.
Then again, maybe I'm just lazy...
That's a good thing to keep in mind, Flannery. I'm going to go change the one I've done.
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fuck I just did all my book links wrong. I might fix it later... or not.
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I meant they are html so they don't show up on the side. I can do that. maybe even the right way.
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flannery, come school us, please!
Did you use the "add book/author" button?
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I thought it happened automatically when you use the "add book/author button" in one of your posts. I might be wrong.
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How are you writing the html? The easiest way to add books into a thread that way is to use [] and put 'book: whatever the title is' in between the brackets. That will work as well as long as the title is decipherable. Perhaps the problem was a generic title that could be several books? Like there is only one Confederacy of Dunces so I don't have to search but there are several Labyrinth results so when I wrote that html it reverts to a Percy Jackson book instead of the one I wanted (Labyrinth)
(I'm also just checking if my html shows up on the side now because I didn't use 'add book/author (which always shows up)) EDIT: all three of them show up so it doesn't matter if you use the aforementioned brackets or the 'add book/author' option.
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karen, if you're asking how you can get other people's books on the side, I don't think you can since you can't edit their posts. You need to have them go back and redo them using the button.
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We could do it without editing-- just write a comment that says 'Recommendations thus far:' and then just lists all of the books' I don't mind doing that in the threads already in action...
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yeah she asked me to hyperlink them so I did.
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well I did the list of books I wrote in my thread the right way so that doesn't have to be done.
You know what would be really cool?If I could tell you a song and you could find me a book that is like that song.
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OK, i have a song. Where should I post it ?
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or anything else anyone wants to do - i am game for anything!
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Some people do get pissy about authors rating their own books, though I do not understand why. I like when authors say something about the book they wrote, rather than just star-rating it.
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Oh. I have a pick for the whole song to book idea. The song is "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly. Now you tell me what book is most like it! Now see...this really is fun, isn't it?!?! The Ghosts of Melrose
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Books mentioned in this topic
Labyrinth (other topics)A Confederacy of Dunces (other topics)
The Battle of the Labyrinth (other topics)
The Ghosts of Melrose (other topics)
