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I just had a thought about your CueCat. Is it declawed or does it still do the special code stuff? Because apparently clawed cats send a code stroke (Alt-F10, I think) every time they start to scan. If that's a shortcut key for a camera program, that might explain the difficulty. Declawing isn't hard - try here for a good, simple explanation with good pictures. All you need is a Phillips screwdriver and a sharp knife - Exacto or the like. Or small sharp scissors you don't mind cutting metal with (wasn't going to use my embroidery scissors!).

Oh - I just noticed that my first comment was cut off. I (meant to) put in a link pointing you to the discussion of the get-together - let me try that again. It's here.

posted by jjmcgaffey at 1:13 am (EST) on Sep 29, 2008

Yeah, I was afraid of that...I'm not sure how frequently msmit1861 is on the site. Wish I could help, but Vista is still way confusing for me (I don't have it myself, but I do computer repair and I've run into a few oddities).

The Green Dragon (Inn) is an LT group that's...a little odd. But the members do tend to be very active and helpful in Talk in general. To join a group, you go into the group page (where you clicked 'Post a new topic' to leave your message). Look up on the righthand side - at the top of the (pink, beige, brown - depending on your monitor) column on the right, there's a series of icons for Join this group, Watch this group, Recommend this group. If you click Join, the group will show up on your profile page; if you click Watch, it won't, but it will show up in the list on the right when you're in a group page. Some of the groups you can only Watch - New Features, Recommend Site Improvements, and Bug Collectors (all very useful groups!) among others.

Yyyeah...listing series in order in your catalog is a _pain_. There's the Common Knowledge:Series column, but since it's not sortable it's not very helpful. I put series info into my Comments field ('Miss Seeton, 1' or 'Valdemar:Vanyel, 1-3' sort of thing); others put it into the Summary field. The other way to do it is to look at the Common Knowledge series pages - choose a book that's in a series, go into the Main Page for that book and scroll down. Under the Common Knowledge header, the first item is Series (with order) - if it's filled in (as it is for Vampire, Interrupted), click on it and you will go to a page listing all the books in that series. If there's a green checkmark on the right of a book listing, you have that book; if not, you're missing that one (though omnibuses are a bit of a pain with that). And you can fill in series info for anything that's missing. Note that Common Knowledge is shared across the site - it's not just your data, it's everyone's - so be careful what you change. You may know all this (since I see you've added the CK:Series column to your view), but it doesn't hurt to review it.

Oh, one more thing - if you put stuff like TBR and 'Gift not really interested' into Tags instead of Comments, you can filter by them - click TBR on your tag page and see only those books with the TBR tag. Which leaves Comments clear for series stuff. That's the way I do it - but you may have a way that works best for you.

Ask any questions you like - it's fun to help.

posted by jjmcgaffey at 4:29 pm (EST) on Sep 26, 2008

Hi - I saw your question in CueCat Questions and Help - passed it on to someone else (msmit1861) who's using a CueCat with Vista and had camera problems (I'm using it with XP and not seeing this). So then I came over to see if perhaps you'd gotten a message here, and discovered we have a lot in common - and that you live in San Jose. Have you heard about the Green Dragon get-together next month? Although it started with Green Dragon folks, I'm more interested in meeting LTers...discussion posted by jjmcgaffey at 10:36 pm (EST) on Sep 24, 2008