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Subject: anyone else noticing a weird alphabetical listing?
Date Posted: 1/5/2019 8:44 PM ET
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I currently have 480 books on my WL. I view them 100 books on a page. Frequently, I notice a number of books on the first page are out of order.  And I'm not talking about books titles which begin with "The."

Just now I was reviewing the list, and after the "A's" I saw titles beginning with "F," "N," and even "V."  This is usually in the middle of the page, and after about 10-15 books out of order, the rest are in correct alphabetical order. Weird.

This even happened numerous times before the government shutdown, so that's not the problem.

 

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Date Posted: 1/6/2019 8:53 AM ET
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The 'out of order' books on my wishlist are ones that are available in the PBS Marketplace.  Just in case I don't want to wait! smiley

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Date Posted: 1/6/2019 9:27 AM ET
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I usually keep my list sorted by estimate but when I switched to by title it was all in alphabetical order excepting the titles that start with a number, those were at the top of the list.

Try resorting by some other method and then resort back to the way you want it. Might or might not change it.

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Date Posted: 1/8/2019 11:06 AM ET
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The 'out of order' books on my wishlist are ones that are available in the PBS Marketplace.  Just in case I don't want to wait!

Anna,

You are right. All these books at the top of my WL are PBS Marketplace books. After that listing is over, My WL starts again with 'A' for the books which aren't Marketplace books.  I never realized that before. Thanks.

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Date Posted: 1/8/2019 12:05 PM ET
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A little 'self-advertising' by PBS  smiley

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Date Posted: 1/8/2019 4:05 PM ET
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You can change this if you select Sort By Title at the top of the list. The PBS Market books shouldn't be first unless you specifically select Sort by PBS Market.

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Date Posted: 1/8/2019 6:54 PM ET
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Thanks for the info, Cathy.  I don't recall ever changing mine, but for me it's only 3 or 4 books and certainly not a problem. Actually, I think it's rather clever.  :^)

 

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Date Posted: 1/10/2019 2:54 PM ET
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I have had that problem for the past year.....just a few books on WL out of order.  They are always ones with multiple ISBNs for which I have selected all the PBs and HCs. -- for ex.-- if I have WL'd  6 versions of a title starting with "L", one of them might be stuck separately down in the "Ts". Have never figured out why this happens so I just regularly go thru entire WL to see what is still there......I am only using about 300 of my 500 WL slots and lots of my choices are for titles that have anywhere from 3-12 versions on my WL.

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Date Posted: 1/10/2019 7:04 PM ET
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Jeanne -- I've seen what you're describing when a book is originally listed as "Untitled xxxxx" and then the correct title is added later on. Sometimes it seems like it doesn't get reindexed to sort into the correct alphabetic location and it just stays with the other U titles. I've seen some title corrections that work fine and some that don't, and I don't know why some go wrong.

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Date Posted: 1/10/2019 10:00 PM ET
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ahhh, thanks, Cathy!