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[jane@eatyourbooks]

Glad to hear you managed to add the majority of your cookbooks - that has given you more than 25,000 recipes to search through in seconds. The books that you were not able to add, you should import the ISBNs using the Book Import feature and we will then add them to the Library when we set up further affiliations with booksellers stocking older and rarer books. The books will then automatically be added to your Bookshelf.

The new version of the site, which should be up within a couple of weeks (bug testing like crazy at the moment) will allow you to do an abbreviated listing (title, author, ISBN) that you can print out.

You cannot yet add books without ISBNs but that is on our to-do list after we get the new site up.

Thank you so much for your offer of help. Even if you don't want to index your books, just giving feedback is really valuable to us.

[nakji]

I tried to sign up for a lifetime membership today, but couldn't make it through PayPal's opaque account set-up system Are there any plans for alternate payment options?

[runwestierun]

I tried to sign up for a lifetime membership today, but couldn't make it through PayPal's opaque account set-up system Are there any plans for alternate payment options?

There is a giant thread on EYB over at Chowhound and I think I remember someone else not wanting to use Paypal. If I remember right, Jane said they would have other payment plans once they were out of beta, but then there wouldn't be the lifetime option anymore. She is just offering the lifetime membership while they are in beta.

[nakji]

That's too bad. I'm not really keen on linking my bank accounts to PayPal, and some of the information required by that site is not information I can acquire without some back and forth between myself and the bank, which I doubt can be resolved before my free trial is up. I guess I'm stuck.

[runwestierun]

I remember Jane saying somewhere that they don't automatically delete your library once your free trial is up. They save the information in case you decide to join later so you don't have to upload all those ISBNs again.

[Kerry Beal]

That's too bad. I'm not really keen on linking my bank accounts to PayPal, and some of the information required by that site is not information I can acquire without some back and forth between myself and the bank, which I doubt can be resolved before my free trial is up. I guess I'm stuck.

I have paypal linked only to my credit card.

[blue_dolphin]

I remember Jane saying somewhere that they don't automatically delete your library once your free trial is up. They save the information in case you decide to join later so you don't have to upload all those ISBNs again.

Yes, this was my experience. My free trial expired on July 31, while I was off on vacation with no computer access. I was pleased to read this part of the e-mail notice I received:

We have saved your Username, Bookshelf and other settings. Should you decide to take out a membership at a later date just sign on with your Username and Password and you will be taken to the Registration screen.

We will let you know before we delete any of your information.

This thread reminded me to go back and pay for a membership and all my books were still there.

[jane@eatyourbooks]

I tried to sign up for a lifetime membership today, but couldn't make it through PayPal's opaque account set-up system Are there any plans for alternate payment options?

We definitely plan to add alternative payment systems once we are out of beta. PayPal was a convenient system while we started up but we know that not everyone wants to use them. You can just pay by credit card through PayPal (as Kerry Beal mentioned), you don't need a PayPal account to use the service.

The new version of the website will go live tomorrow. I would be really interested to know what existing EYB members think of it.

[Chris Amirault]

Been using it a lot today -- for beets, in particular! -- so I'm eager to check it out tomorrow.

[nickrey]

I've used my cookbooks more since I joined the website than I think I have in total over the past few years. Looking forward to checking out the new site.

[nakji]

I have paypal linked only to my credit card.

I thought this was the case also (as I had done in the past), but when I went to update my credit card information, they said the account couldn't be linked, and asked for bank account information, thus pissing me off. Anyway, it's an issue with PayPal, not EYB.

I remember Jane saying somewhere that they don't automatically delete your library once your free trial is up. They save the information in case you decide to join later so you don't have to upload all those ISBNs again.

Well, this is good news, at least!

[Chris Hennes]

I've used my cookbooks more since I joined the website than I think I have in total over the past few years. Looking forward to checking out the new site.

I second this: in the past week alone I've pulled over a half dozen books off my shelf that hadn't seen the light of day in years. I really think that EYB is a revolutionary idea, and I certainly wish them success. Especially since I have a lifetime membership!!

[andiesenji]

Been using it a lot today -- for beets, in particular! -- so I'm eager to check it out tomorrow.

Wow, such serendipity. I was also looking for beet recipes as I pulled a bunch of golden beets from the garden this morning. I entered roasted beets
The recipe is in the Everyday Food: Fresh Flavor Fast (Martha Stewart).
Orange, roasted beet, and arugula salad

It specified one large beet but I used four small ones. Delicious

[runwestierun]

I've used my cookbooks more since I joined the website than I think I have in total over the past few years. Looking forward to checking out the new site.

I second this: in the past week alone I've pulled over a half dozen books off my shelf that hadn't seen the light of day in years. I really think that EYB is a revolutionary idea, and I certainly wish them success. Especially since I have a lifetime membership!!

Me three. I am really enjoying rediscovering my cookbooks especially with all the beautiful produce this time of year. And just now I was reading the thread about Eileen Yin-Fei Lo's book "Mastering the Art of Chinese Cooking". I thought I bought that book, I remember looking at it. So instead of ransacking the house I typed it into the EYB database and there it was in my library. Yay!

And why would I have to ransack the house to find that book if I didn't have EYB? Because now that I have that index I have arranged all my books by------wait for it------COLOR! Yep. I've put different colored books in different bookcases and it's pretty. The room feels much more harmonious and now my books are all girlied up.

[torakris]

I read about this site last night as I was reading an Everyday with Rachael Ray magazine in which there was a little blurb about it. I immediately went online to check it out and was hooked, I've dreamed about something like this for years.
I've had issues with paypal for years and after it rejected every card I have I created a whole new paypal account, complete with a brand new e-mail address, bank account and credit card. It took me most of the morning but I really wanted to get in before the lifetime membership thing expired. Now I need to go and start inputting all of my books. I'm so excited to try this out.

[Kerry Beal]

The new version has launched - but on my Mac everything is overlapped and I can't seem to login now.

[nakji]

I wonder if that's why the site keeps on telling me that I'm using Internet Explorer 6, which is not supported. As if I'd use IE /scoff/.

[blue_dolphin]

Hopefully that was a temporary glitch. I took a quick look and was able to log in just fine with the 2 browsers that I use (Safari and Camino)

[Chris Amirault]

Fine on my Droid and on Firefox/Windows XP. Will check my Firefox on my Mac tonight.

[Kerry Beal]

Fired up OK on safari on the mac where I'm working today - will have to see if it was a temporary glich when I get home.

[jane@eatyourbooks]

The new version has launched - but on my Mac everything is overlapped and I can't seem to login now.

I can't replicate this - I used a MacBook with Firefox, Safari and Chrome and there was no overlapping issue. Can you do a hard refresh or remove cache as that may be the issue with your Mac?

[jane@eatyourbooks]

I wonder if that's why the site keeps on telling me that I'm using Internet Explorer 6, which is not supported. As if I'd use IE /scoff/.

That is odd - you should only get that message if we detect the IE6 browser. What browser do you use?

[Chris Hennes]

It works fine on my Mac (Safari and Firefox) and my iPhone (though admittedly it's hard to use on that tiny screen). Looks great on the big one, though, excellent work! I like the AJAX-ification of the search, the site feels very responsive.

[jane@eatyourbooks]

Thanks Chris - I passed your comments on to our developers as I know they will be really pleased that they came from you.

[torakris]

Fired up OK on safari on the mac where I'm working today - will have to see if it was a temporary glich when I get home.

It probably was an initial glitch. I had the exact same problem on my mac when the site just came back online. It looks great now.
It really sucks being on the other side of the world, I only managed to get 49 books uploaded on Monday and was hoping to finish them yesterday (my day off) and the site was offline all day for me..

Thanks to whoever suggested the zbar app, I'm loving it!

[Kerry Beal]

Looks good at home now - must have been just an early morning glitch as Kristin suggested.

[nakji]

That is odd - you should only get that message if we detect the IE6 browser. What browser do you use?

Firefox. It seems sorted now - must have been that glitch. I had recently updated my browser, too.

[Chris Amirault]

Jane, can you help me understand something? I can't quite figure out what the speech balloon (notes?) and the dual heads (bookshelves?) are for in this shot:



Nothing happens when I click on them. However, if I click on the links, I get a dropdown menu of ISBN numbers for previous editions, so I'm assuming something ought to happen! Can you only get access to those two features within the book page itself?

Edited by Chris Amirault, 02 September 2010 - 02:13 PM.
clarification --

[jane@eatyourbooks]

This is a feature we didn't get time to finish before the launch of the new site. But it will work in the next few days. The speech balloon relates to the number of Notes that have been made by members. The heads and number relates to the number of bookshelves the book is on. When it works clicking on these will take you to the corresponding tab on the book details page. You can still see the tabs with the notes and details of who owns the book by clicking on the book title to go to book details.

[torakris]

I finally got all my books uploaded and I noticed that quite a few that I assumed would have been indexed were listed on my bookshelf as not indexed yet. For an example I have 4 books by Jamie Oliver (all UK editions)and their ISBN is not the main one listed but it is one of the ones that appear when you click the little link symbol. Is there a way to add/connect these to my indexed books?

PS I love the feature that shows how many people have the same book and I like to being able to browse through other people's collections!