Member: Didier69

I happen to tag: urj urs
where urj= unread me
urs = unread spouse

posted by DromJohn at 2:49 pm (EST) on Jun 18, 2008

Oh - now I've looked at your library and you have your read books marked - but while you can look at all the books not marked @lire (search for tags:-@lire) on LT, you can't tell the widget to do that, so if you want your unread books on your blog you'll have to tag them as well. However, if you do the search and then use PowerEdit, you can apply the tag to them all in a group (100 at a time).

posted by jjmcgaffey at 2:24 pm (EST) on Jun 18, 2008

I didn't see that you reposted your question, so I thought I'd answer it here - New Features is really supposed to be only for the LT Staff to start posts, but most of the others are open to anyone.

The checkbox doesn't really do much at the moment. The new homepage will use it, apparently, but that's not finished yet (there's a big post in Recommend Site Improvements group about it). The only way, at the moment, to really track what you've read and not read is to put tags on your books - say, mark the ones you haven't read yet 'unread' (sorry, I don't know how to say it in French!), or the ones you have read 'read', or both.

On LT, you can list all the books that have a particular tag by going to Tags or to your library and clicking on the tag you want. If you mean put them here on your profile, it's a matter of putting in the HTML - no automatic way to do it.

For your blog, there's a widget-maker on the Tools tab (upper left). Go to that and tell it to look only at the tag 'unread', and it will display a random set of books that have that tag. I have mine set to use the tag _CR, which is my marker for Currently Reading.

Enjoy LT!

posted by jjmcgaffey at 2:20 pm (EST) on Jun 18, 2008