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WYSIWYG · Post by **WYSIWYG** » September 30th, 2014, 10:37 am

Whatever happened to the link in a book thread to get notified when completed? Did that not get included in the site redesign, or did it move or......

Thanks for any help.

~Susan

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » September 30th, 2014, 10:47 am

Unfortunately, the "Notify me when this is complete" feature was discontinued in 2010 for security reasons.

Ruth

WYSIWYG · Post by **WYSIWYG** » September 30th, 2014, 11:18 am

Thanks....

Hm. So what I have been doing is replying in threads for books I expect to like once done, but unless I keep visiting the topic I stop getting notifications, right? So... even once completed I will not get a note unless I open the thread each time? I guess I will have to see if my email can take one more folder to catch these, because when I am on the road w/o wifi I'm getting flooded with notes that take me over my data limit.

Any other ideas? I already use the database as creatively as I think I can.

???

~S~

Cori · Post by **Cori** » September 30th, 2014, 11:45 am

I can't vouch for any of these personally ... but perhaps #4 or #5 here might work for you? http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/detect-website-change-notification/ Set them using the first page of the thread, and then in theory, once the "This project is complete" is added by the MC in the first post, you should get an in-browser alert. I don't know if they'd change based on edits to the magic window (I don't think so ... I think that'd be like adverts within a page, that aren't really page content itself.) If you'd prefer an email, then perhaps something like http://www.watchthatpage.com/ or https://www.followthatpage.com/ would work (they're both free for relatively low usage, which this would count as.)

WYSIWYG · Post by **WYSIWYG** » September 30th, 2014, 12:05 pm

Wow! I never heardda dat!!!!

I even almost understood it!

Many thanks. Will try that when I get to some free wifi to look at it on a proper screen.

~S~

Post by **dlolso21** » September 30th, 2014, 12:18 pm

You could also try one of these (Librivox releases an average 3 books per day)

https://archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?collection=librivoxaudio
will give you an RSS feed (podcast) that you can subscribe to showing the latest 50 releases

https://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Alibrivoxaudio&sort=-publicdate
this is actually a search for everything Libirvox, but only the latest 50 releases show on the first page of results

David O

smike · Post by **smike** » September 30th, 2014, 12:22 pm

You can subscribe to the 'completed projects' forum, then you'll get a notification for each completed project once it's moved there. Failing that, you can subscribe to the RSS feed on the librivox.org page.

WYSIWYG · Post by **WYSIWYG** » September 30th, 2014, 12:46 pm

Done!

Thanks.

~S~

Post by **annise** » September 30th, 2014, 1:51 pm

Another approach
Go to catalogue page and click on title . Order by release date.

Anne

WYSIWYG · Post by **WYSIWYG** » September 30th, 2014, 2:06 pm

annise wrote:Another approach
Go to catalogue page and click on title . Order by release date.

Anne

Yup, been.

When I'm bookless I trawl the catalog by reader, by author, by genre, to see if I've missed any treasures. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the catalog redesign. I've even been known to look at a fave author's wiki page to see if an update there gives me a new genre or related-author clue.

~S~