Fix an annoying thing about colored checkmarks
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1Bookmarque
Sometimes I have duplicates of books that are in the My Library collection and they have different status icons shown in lists like below --
The two blue Read but Unowned icons supersede the green In Your Library checkmark that I'd like to show because I actually do own copies of the books in question and have them in the My Library collection. The blue RbU icons are there for instances when I borrowed audiobooks from the library. It's weird how those are the primary indicator of ownership rather than the green IYL checkmark.
Is it possible to promote a green IYL checkmark when it's present for a work that may have other status indicators for different entries in a catalog? When I borrow a book that I own I catalog it separately and it's never in the My Library collection, only Read but Unowned. I don't know if a calculation based on the work page could help with promoting the green checkmark, but maybe you could have a think about it.
This could also help when a person has borrowed a book in the past and then purchased a copy for themselves. At a glance it may appear that it's not in a person's My Library collection when it actually is.
Does that make sense?
The two blue Read but Unowned icons supersede the green In Your Library checkmark that I'd like to show because I actually do own copies of the books in question and have them in the My Library collection. The blue RbU icons are there for instances when I borrowed audiobooks from the library. It's weird how those are the primary indicator of ownership rather than the green IYL checkmark.
Is it possible to promote a green IYL checkmark when it's present for a work that may have other status indicators for different entries in a catalog? When I borrow a book that I own I catalog it separately and it's never in the My Library collection, only Read but Unowned. I don't know if a calculation based on the work page could help with promoting the green checkmark, but maybe you could have a think about it.
This could also help when a person has borrowed a book in the past and then purchased a copy for themselves. At a glance it may appear that it's not in a person's My Library collection when it actually is.
Does that make sense?
3Bookmarque
ugh how annoying.
4Cynfelyn
>3 Bookmarque: Agreed. Surely the 'Your Library' tick should trump the others.
5SandraArdnas
>4 Cynfelyn: I thought it did. It should.
6MarthaJeanne
I think it should, too, but I thought the official take should be shown.
7paradoxosalpha
The "best" ranking really does depend on how you use your catalog. From a sheer usability standpoint, I could see this being a valuable customization feature: Set the ranking of those three checkmarks. From a coding overhead perspective, though, I have absolutely no idea.
8paradoxosalpha
Oh, and my catalog is informed by this feature's status quo. So if I have a "Read but Unowned" book that I acquire a copy of, then I add the "My Library" checkmark and remove the "Read but Unowned" one. That way, I don't end up with the sort of data presentation in the OP. I am pretty uninterested in the fact that I may have read a book I own before I actually owned it. Books do come and go. I'm more concerned to know: Do I own it now? In the rare case where I *do* care about a copy I read that I don't own (although I now own a different one), that's fodder for the Comments field.
In my catalog, there should be no overlap between "Read but Unowned" and "My Library." Once in a great while, I do a quick audit to make sure.
In my catalog, there should be no overlap between "Read but Unowned" and "My Library." Once in a great while, I do a quick audit to make sure.
