Language of the book missing info

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Language of the book missing info

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1theapparatus
Sep 2, 2010, 4:58 pm

Greets:

Looks like that "Language of the book" listing under the Statistics/Memes page is missing languages. At least it is for me.:

http://www.librarything.com/profile/theapparatus/stats/library

Language of the book
6,212 English
1,752
1 Dutch
1 Swedish

2MarthaJeanne
Sep 2, 2010, 5:01 pm

I seem to have two in that language. No idea what it is, though.

3theapparatus
Sep 27, 2010, 3:09 pm

Looks like someone looked at it. It's now labeled (xxx). I don;t recall reading any books recently written in porn though. :)

4christiguc
Sep 27, 2010, 3:48 pm

>1 theapparatus: Number-wise it looks like it works if you count the books where you have "English," as the language of the book. (Do you have something odd entered as a secondary language on those ones or something?)

5theapparatus
Sep 27, 2010, 3:53 pm

The missing field is probably those works that don't have a language assigned.

6Felagund
Sep 28, 2010, 12:09 am

Now the language (including xxx) is a hypertext link, and one would expect it to point to a view of the books in one's collection written in said language, right? At least for me it doesn't: I'm getting all of my books, which doesn't really help. Is this a bug or do I misunderstand the aim of this feature?

7pranogajec
Edited: Sep 29, 2010, 6:54 pm

I now have this "xxx" listed under my book languages section, too. It's not a matter of no primary language selected, since 3249 are English and I only have 3324 books total, so there cannot be 400 without a language. Clicking on the xxx link brings up the whole catalog rather than a filtered portion of it.

8keristars
Edited: Sep 29, 2010, 6:17 pm

7> Seconding this, about it not being "no language selected". My numbers add up to less than the total number of books in my catalogue, which means at least some didn't have a language selected, and if so, there should be an xxx number.

Also the links just take me to my whole catalogue, but it looks like they're meant to be filtering by language, possibly?

Eta: i see this is being discussed here, too. I started reading talk topics from the bottom up and didn't see the other one is also on-going.

9Felagund
Sep 30, 2010, 1:51 pm

>8 keristars:
That's what bothers me much more than seeing "xxx" instead of "unknown" or other words to that effect...

10Nicole_VanK
Sep 30, 2010, 1:56 pm

> 8: They used to filter by language. But I now also get sent to my entire library from any of them. Seems to me that this is worth its own bug report.

11pranogajec
Oct 2, 2010, 6:19 pm

Still haven't heard anything official on this issue. Wonder why it's such a mystery...

12timspalding
Jan 12, 2011, 8:36 pm

Update on why this isn't fixed yet (see http://www.librarything.com/topic/107331).

There's something going on with Poweredit here. I need to look into it. It's higher on my list.

13timspalding
May 12, 2012, 1:33 am

Assigning to Jeremy. This is the same as another bug you're working on with CC, right?

14jbd1
May 12, 2012, 6:40 am

Yes, this should be fixed as part of http://www.librarything.com/topic/103339