I Am A Slow Learner
The first time someone asks me to do something complicated or difficult, I'll probably make excuses, or say that I'll look into it. But nothing will happen.
If a second person asks, I probably will look into it, but I'm not likely to do much about it.
But if people keep asking, and especially if it looks like a really useful change, I might actually do it.
All this is to explain why, finally, I've started making my links for books point to the non-member side of the SFBC site (and not to the same book on the members-only side) over the past few days. It's a bit more complicated on my end, but I think it will be more useful to everyone. (If there's someone out there who's a member, please let me know what happens when you click on one of those links. It might get you the member page, or it might not; I really don't know.) So click away; even if you're not a member, you should get a description of the book and a picture of the US cover. If that makes you want to join the club, so much the better for me...
Comments
I'm a member; the link for Pushing Ice in the previous post redirected me to the main member home page, not the page for the book. (shrug)
Posted by: Kendall | July 29, 2006 11:24 PM
Hm. That's unfortunate. So I can either have links that work for members or links that work for non-members, but not both.
I think I'll ask the technical folks if they have any ideas, and keep doing it this way for now. (But I might have to go back to doing it the old way, especially if most of the people reading this blog are members and want to click the links.)
Posted by: Andrew Wheeler | July 30, 2006 08:16 AM
Hmm, my previous comment seems to have gotten lost.
Non-members can get the links to work by deleting the jsessionid part of the URL. You need to delete the ';' that begins it but leave the '?' before the next field.
For example, here's a link to Counting Heads.
Posted by: Konrad Gaertner | July 31, 2006 06:07 PM