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If you need help testing, let me know.

I'm still trying to work out this "touchstone" feature. So far, it keeps linking back to the LibraryThing homepage or to the Groups homepage.

Still, let's give it a go. It seems that we both own a copy of The dialectic of sex : the case for feminist revolution by Shulamith Firestone. I once heard someone aver that Marge Piercy based her book Woman on the Edge of Time on Firestone's u?/dys?/topian vision of sexless reproduction, but I've never managed to confirm it.

Howzat?

P.S. I'll be happy to leave this group, too, if that helps your testing process.

Touchstones, hmm... Dialectic of sex ... probably the first feminist book I read. Quite an introduction. I want to see if touchstones are working here.

Let me try too ... Dialectic of sex ...

I posted this question on the LT googlegroup, but maybe I can ask you. When a title has a colon followed by a subtitle (or whatever the second part of the title is called), how does this work with touchstones?

For example, should be entered as Chirp or as Chirp : A history of parrots? And does it matter whether there's a space or not before the colon? Et cetera.

P.S. If there is really a book called "Chirp", I shall be truly amazed.

P.P.S. When I drafted the previous posting, I had put the sample title "Chirp : A history of parrots" between a couple of HTML italic tags, being a fan of italicizing book titles whenever possible. Lo and behold, when the posting actually appeared, the tags and everything between them vanished! Interesting...

I'm going to try a couple more touchstones. No fancy titles, either.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

(I do hope you don't need the "ë" for this to work!)

OK, that didn't work... trying again using Firefox 1.0.4.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Oho! This is the first time I've seen the prompt text appear on the right. That simply didn't happen in IE6.

Let's see if the touchstones produce actual links when I click Submit...

Hi Robyn, I don't know if this can help, but:

- The touchstones failed to produce even a faux link with Internet Explorer 6.
- They were created successfully when I tried using Firefox 1.0.4.

Interesting thing: in your earlier message, your link to the book Dialectic of sex shows as blue text, but the underlining is visible to me only when I mouse over it.

In the message I just created, the book link is blue and underlined to begin with (no mousing over), while the author link is blue text only (but shows underlining when moused over).

I'm still looking at this via Firefox, so it could be different - probably is - in IE6.

I guess the lesson is: use Firefox for now if I want to play with touchstones :-)

I'm testing now, but particularly the how-many-read function.

That works. I'm stunned. Every Visible Thing

As of last night, IE6 touchstones were working. Yay!!!

However, a whack of author touchstones have dropped out of previously-created postings. The ones created this morning are fine, but the hyperlinks have vanished to author links that were created prior to that. The authors are now plain-text only.

Or at least, that's what I'm seeing in IE. Maybe another browser would show something different.

Here's some testing.

Mere Christianity and Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army.

Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army and Mere Christianity.

testing flagging. don't be alarmed if i flag you. ah, my alter ego removed the flags.

testing. don't watch. here's a touchstone. the alchemist

Something else. I didn't read all the Harry Potter books. I only made it through 2, or maybe 3. What would that be, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets? I can't remember.

In case anyone wonders -- they probably won't -- I deleted a bunch of my posts above because they were touchstone tests. But now that touchstones are working well, even for IE, my test entries were just giving me -- and perhaps others -- the impression that there were conversations about those test works here when there really aren't. :-)

I would really like to work out if this touchstone Thousand Years of the English Parish really works.