Fix an annoying thing about colored checkmarks

Sometimes I have duplicates of books that are in the My Library collection and they have different status icons shown in lists like below --



The two blue Read but Unowned icons supersede the green In Your Library checkmark that I'd like to show because I actually do own copies of the books in question and have them in the My Library collection. The blue RbU icons are there for instances when I borrowed audiobooks from the library. It's weird how those are the primary indicator of ownership rather than the green IYL checkmark.

Is it possible to promote a green IYL checkmark when it's present for a work that may have other status indicators for different entries in a catalog? When I borrow a book that I own I catalog it separately and it's never in the My Library collection, only Read but Unowned. I don't know if a calculation based on the work page could help with promoting the green checkmark, but maybe you could have a think about it.

This could also help when a person has borrowed a book in the past and then purchased a copy for themselves. At a glance it may appear that it's not in a person's My Library collection when it actually is.

Does that make sense?

This is the way checkmarks were set up.

https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Checkmarks

ugh how annoying.

>3 Bookmarque: Agreed. Surely the 'Your Library' tick should trump the others.

>4 Cynfelyn: I thought it did. It should.

I think it should, too, but I thought the official take should be shown.

The "best" ranking really does depend on how you use your catalog. From a sheer usability standpoint, I could see this being a valuable customization feature: Set the ranking of those three checkmarks. From a coding overhead perspective, though, I have absolutely no idea.

Oh, and my catalog is informed by this feature's status quo. So if I have a "Read but Unowned" book that I acquire a copy of, then I add the "My Library" checkmark and remove the "Read but Unowned" one. That way, I don't end up with the sort of data presentation in the OP. I am pretty uninterested in the fact that I may have read a book I own before I actually owned it. Books do come and go. I'm more concerned to know: Do I own it now? In the rare case where I *do* care about a copy I read that I don't own (although I now own a different one), that's fodder for the Comments field.

In my catalog, there should be no overlap between "Read but Unowned" and "My Library." Once in a great while, I do a quick audit to make sure.

Also requested here:

https://www.librarything.com/topic/172783#4765071
https://www.librarything.com/topic/290364#6525578
https://www.librarything.com/topic/94899#7577749

bump

thanks. Not forgotten. Just working on other projects at the moment.

>11 conceptDawg: Fair enough. But could you bump it up the list please?

I'm updating my wishlist as I'll be travelling soon and plan to raid a few bookshops along the way. It's annoying and unhelpful that 'Read but unowned' supersedes 'Your library' because I cannot quickly check whether I have all the books in a series on my shelves when I'm in a bookshop with spotty internet access. I'm not sure why RBU should have priority over my own books but maybe some people prefer it, so it would be nice to specify priority in our own accounts.

And I don't want to delete books in my RBU list because I've often posted a review for them already.

>12 humouress: I agree with you about the priority. But for your travels, you could make a collection RBU, and move your books there from the official Read but unowned collection. I assume the system wouldn't recognise that and wouldn't assign the Read but unowned checkmark. Not perfect, but maybe it's a useful workaround?

>13 Ennas: Just bear in mind that there is an unfixed bug that 'grey' checkmarks don't show up everywhere.

Another thread with this request:

https://www.librarything.com/topic/368079

My solution to this was that all my "read but unowned" works are also in "my library" after I finish reading them because if I read them, they are in my head (which is my library in principle). This makes it clear that I don't need to find it again unless I want to reread it.

Any advance on this?

I'm updating my catalogue again, having just done my bookshop raids on my travels. I would like to be able to have 'your library' superseding 'read but unowned' (without having to do the workarounds that others have kindly suggested) so I can easily see books I actually have in my own library. I often buy books (and the rest of the series) for myself after reading one or two that I've borrowed from the library so I end up having a lot of books showing as 'read but unowned' that I actually do own.

Not yet, I'm afraid, our developers are full up on other things. Thanks for your continued patience!