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By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:57:38 +0000

I love the plugin! :-) I was wondering if I could make a request, however: is it possible to create an option for bloggers to use affiliate links from booksellers other than Amazon? I’d be willing to donate some extra money if this can happen.

By: JustinN

JustinN — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:14:49 +0000

Hi Rob,

Just wanted to say what a fantastic plugin this is. Just spent the past 30 mins or so getting it running, including customizing the templates which was pretty easy. Just need to find a way to customize the search library box now. Once that's done it's all set up!

Thanks

Justin

By: Gary Preston

Gary Preston — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:53:02 +0000

I'd second the previous comment on separate sidebar and main display image sizes. Perhaps in options been able to select SidebarSize and DefaultSize?

Another comment regarding the sidebar. I've had a look through the source and see it uses LIMIT to restrict the number of entries returned, useful on the sidebar for say currently reading when you have quite a few books and only want to show say 2.

It woudl also be nice to have an option where rather than just limiting to say 2 it instead selects a random 2 books for the returned current reading list. That way on each page refresh the currently reading list will change.

This option would probably be even more useful in the planned and already read lists which may contain quite a few entries.

Great plugin though, very useful in its current state :)

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:09:03 +0000

Forget it; I just changed b_added to b_finished and it works fine for me. That way it calculates only the books that have a finished date.

Thanks for the great plugin!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:02:05 +0000

Oh… and I put them all in the last couple of days, so if this is actually calculated by date entered instead of date finished, that could be it:

( COUNT(*) / ( TO_DAYS(CURDATE()) – TO_DAYS(MIN(b_added)) ) ) AS books_per_day

What would I change if I wanted it to be calculated by date finished instead of date added?

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:57:34 +0000

Sorry - one other thing...

Where is the calculation for how many books per month made? Mine shows this:

67 books overall; 26 books read in the last year; 2 books read in the last month. That's an average of 10 books each month.

10 books per month? Even I'm not that good.

I basically have 67 books in there right now that span over the past 28 months. Based on that, I would think that 67 books / 28 months = 2 to 3 books per month...

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:59:52 +0000

One suggestion – when you change the book status to Finished, have it check first to see if there is a date already in the “Finished Date” field. I am entering in a bunch of old books and keep having to update the book 2 times so I can change the “Finished Date” back from today’s date to the original date I put in there.

Otherwise – FANTASTIC!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 06:17:52 +0000

Hi Rob,

I’m using WordPress 2.04 and Now Reading 4.3 and am having problems. Setup was a breeze, when I type in the title of the book I want it finds it in Amazon, but on the Search Results page when I click on the Use This Result box it goes nowhere.

The page disappears and nothing returns at all. There’s just a blank page. The url is http://www.shubinesque.com/wp-content/plugins/now-reading/add.php which I assume is right, but there’s nothing whatsoever there.

I have to click the Back button to get back to the Search Results page and the book that I was trying to add doesn’t get put into the system at all. So at present I have no books in my library because I can’t get any in there. I’ve tried this in FF and IE and have the same result on both.

I would really like to use your lovely plugin on my blog because it looks like just what I’m looking for. If you have any suggestions on how to fix this, I’d appreciate it. Thanks!

Rachel

By: Xavier

Xavier — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:28:21 +0000

Good evening, and thank you for this plugin.

I've been using it for some days (even modified it a bit to simplify it for my use), but when I try to add a book with special characters (àéèù), it breaks in a "Are you sure?" WP notice. If I agree twice (in a row) to this, it adds an empty book. Adding books by John le Carré seems to work though. I'm using WP2.0.4 and now-reading 4.3. Thanks for any help...

By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:44:04 +0000

Great plugin! Thanks :)

By: Dan Butcher

Dan Butcher — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:20:45 +0000

Great plugin! I have a suggestion/request: it would be great if we could specify two image sizes, one for the sidebar and another for the library and/or permalink pages. As you note, space is often a premium in the sidebar, so the small thumbnail works there, but on other pages, I would like to have a bigger image.

Thanks, Dan

By: Stig

Stig — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:07:17 +0000

No, that doesn't make much sense, but I checked my SQL database and there all dates are stored in that format (yyyy-mm-dd). I'm from Germany, so I guess it's a problem with the different date formats.

The strange thing is, if I add a new book all date formats are accepted, everything works fine. Only when I'm using the edit function all dates (of all books in the database) are set to 1970, unless I set the date format string to %Y-%m-%d.

Anyway, I simply removed the dates from my website and use them only to sort the books in the right order, so it doesn’t matter how they look.

Sorry for my English and thanks for your great work...

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:23:58 +0000

It has to be something parseable by http://uk.php.net/strtotime--which is quite a lot, but seemingly not what you entered :)

By: Stig

Stig — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:11:39 +0000

Problem solved!

If I enter the dates with "-" as separator like "2006-09-01" it works...

By: Stig

Stig — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:48:17 +0000

I really like your plugin, but every time I try to change a date (added, started, finished) it is set to 01.01.1970 as soon as I click on the Update-button.

I think I'm not the only one with this problem. I saw several other pages with 1970 dates. Any Ideas?