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Subject: Lists glitch?
Date Posted: 1/3/2021 4:08 PM ET
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At 4pm eastern I was suddenly locked out of opening my lists, thoughI had just accepted a book order so some things are working.  Anyone else noticing glitches?

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Date Posted: 1/4/2021 2:39 AM ET
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I've seen some glitches at times over the last few weeks. My wife sees them pretty often, but she spends a lot of time on the Internet. It affects pages other than PBS. IMO it's the Internet groaning under the increased traffic and he afternoon would be a high traffic time. If you encounter something like it again, try refreshing the page. That will cause all of the data requests on the page to retry and will clear out any confusion the page has when something didn't work like it expected.

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Date Posted: 2/15/2021 6:26 PM ET
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I'm having a problem with book lists. I can view the list, but I can't add anything to it. I had it last week and it's still not working now. My wishlist, reminder, bookshelf, etc. are all working though.



Last Edited on: 2/15/21 6:27 PM ET - Total times edited: 1
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Date Posted: 2/16/2021 6:57 AM ET
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I can open and view my list and wanted to move some books on one list to another list.  I tried to add the books to the proper list and can't do that.  I didn't try to delete b/c I don't want those books gone from the old list until I can move them to the proper list, but with whatever the problem is, I suspect delete isn't functioning either.

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Date Posted: 2/16/2021 9:45 PM ET
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Try opening the book data page for each book and use the drop down menu to select your desired list. That's the only way I've been able to do it.



Last Edited on: 2/16/21 9:46 PM ET - Total times edited: 1
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Date Posted: 2/17/2021 9:21 AM ET
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Thanks for the suggestion Linda - that is actually the only way I know how to put a book on one of my book lists (if there is another way, IDK how to do it) and that is what I thought wasn't working. Today I discovered that it is "working" but not working correctly, in a way.  Every time I try to add a book to a book list I get an error that says something like " Sorry, we can't find that page, we are unable to connect to Paperbackswap.com servers. . . .)  However, I just noticed that the book I tried to add yesterday was on the list I wanted to add it to.  Weird.  So I tried adding a couple more books to different lists today and every single time I got the error page but then when I went and looked at the list, the book was there.  Weird.  So. . . . working, I guess??????