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

