BEGGING please add "jump to bottom" on series pages for touchscreen

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BEGGING please add "jump to bottom" on series pages for touchscreen

1keristars
Jan 16, 7:12 pm

I have just spent i don't know 10 minutes trying to get to the bottom of the Nancy Drew series page to fix the order of a couple books and it's IMPOSSIBLE to do without accidentally rearranging other works in the list due to the tiny tiny margins and nowhere in the row that isn't a hot point.

Any series that uses the "add to bottom" (or top) option for sorting is a headache but this one is extra bad for being so long, and no way to hit an "end" or "page down" key.

Here are some emoji of desperation 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 🧀

(ps if someone could go fix that series please and thank you - I'm trying to get the Original Text group sorted correctly)

2keristars
Jan 16, 7:14 pm

oh also: this is for the organization page but also for the main series page. Sometimes I really just need to get to the stuff that's on the 3rd column and there's so much scrolling for any long series. (Discworld, Superhero Comics, long-running children's series, etc)

3Keeline
Jan 30, 3:39 pm

>1 keristars:, when you say "touchscreen" are you doing this on a tablet or a laptop with a touch screen? On a tablet like the iPad Mini 5 that I have, it is possible to use a Bluetooth keyboard that can expand access to a page, including scrolling and page up and page down.

While it may be possible to adjust things on a laptop/desktop, it is more difficult to do so on a mobile browser. The computer browsers can have modifying plugins like TamperMonkey (code) and Stylus (CSS). These are not available, generally, on mobile browsers.

Glancing at the lists I see some gaps. For example, the Nancy Drew Girl Detective series has four "Super Mysteries" and only one is listed.

Overall there are about 650 books that can be attached to "Nancy Drew".

Often the books that feature both Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys include both pen names ("Carolyn Keene" and "Franklin W. Dixon") but I realize that this interface will only show the first name defined in a book record.

I've been trying to figure out more of the authorship in the series from 1987+, after the Syndicate was sold to its publisher, Simon & Schuster, in 1984.

James

4keristars
Jan 30, 4:06 pm

I use a phone to access LT. The issue is trying to get to the bottom of the series page when it's longer than a couple screens. It doesn't matter what the series is.

I mentioned ND because it's one I'm working with recently, and it's set to "use the drag-and-drop order". I accidentally added books out of order (ie 12 before 11) and trying to get to the bottom of the page to drag it into the right spot was impossible.

It's one of the worst ones I've encountered, but not the only one that's a headache.

I do not have the capacity to figure out tampermonkey or stylesheet overrides on my mobile browser, if it's even possible to install it on mobile. My RSI is for a button for "jump to end of list".