Add to Your Library Search - auto-replace/remove the colon

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Add to Your Library Search - auto-replace/remove the colon

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1dchaikin
Sep 11, 2009, 2:50 pm

When I'm on a work page, and I click "Add to Your Library" or "Add to Wishlist" I'm sent to the add book page, where the book title is in the search box.

However, two problems happen:
1. If there is a colon in the title, it stays there -even thought this has a 100% failure rate when using the Library of Congress source.
2. The author gets left out of the search, and too many results come back.

My suggestions:
1. If I replace the colon with comma, the searches work in both amazon.com and the Library of Congress. So, I suggest that should be done inside the code (or something equivalent, depending on how the search works)?
2. Add the author to the search. (This suggestion includes a question: Will including the author cause more problems than it would solve)

All of this is minor, of course, since we can edit by hand. It just seems like a quick and easy fix. And it avoids me having to hit "Go Back one Page" to find the author's name.

2timepiece
Sep 12, 2009, 11:41 am

Suggested before, but sadly never got an official response.

3dchaikin
Sep 14, 2009, 12:47 pm

timepiece - Thanks for pointing me that page.

4timepiece
Sep 15, 2009, 3:48 pm

Actually, there were two separate links there (one for each word). Sorry - it's a holdover from Metafilter, where such linking chains are common.

5dchaikin
Sep 15, 2009, 4:12 pm

Thanks, I had only noticed the first one before. :)