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Subject: no books posted today??
Date Posted: 3/22/2015 8:15 PM ET
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Is it true that no new books were posted today or is this just a glitch??

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Date Posted: 3/22/2015 8:20 PM ET
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Pulse of PBS shows 443 posted in the last hour.

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Date Posted: 3/22/2015 8:35 PM ET
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I'm with Cindy - why does no one seem to notice that the Books Posted Today list has not been working since 3am yesterday morning?  Again, everything worked fine on the site until we started paying for memberships.  Now it seems something is always not working.

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Date Posted: 3/22/2015 8:56 PM ET
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What? Everything worked fine before? Really? PBS has been working on a shoestring, with some outdated software for awhile. 

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Date Posted: 3/22/2015 10:58 PM ET
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Absolutely right, Emily!   Members are probably more observant now that many are paying for membership. 

There have always been glitches - sometimes huge ones - disappearing publication dates, disappearing genre, question marks and 'weird characters' in place of punctuation-- etc..  I've been here since '06 and can't recall a year that we didn't have several...