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You get the impression that the site is adrift.

You get the impression that the site has no engineers. If they are working on something, I doubt that something might be anything interesting to the membership. Some of the enhancements are opposed to members' preferences, and the engineers apparently ignore the membership frustration. They seem to be absolutely disinterested of the massive migration of members to other sites like Goodreads.

--I've just checked my edit history. I am editor #11 but it shows I am #12 ("only 17 edits to become 11"). Well, editor #12 is actually 10,000 edits behind me...

--...Unless we have a new Boudewijn. That "member" opened a Shelfari account and right after that, it took him/her/it just three weeks to nearly getting the top 50 editor badge through "anti-edits" (by undoing other members's edits --an antisocial behaviour). They removed his/her/its editing priviledge, butl he/she/it still shows in the honorable position of the top 100 editors. I sometimes find Boudewijn's avatar in "my" book pages (those books I am the only member to read) because they used my bookshelves for "editing" and undo my work / upset me.

--I discovered a fantastic collection of 19th century Spanish books about two years ago. They are in The Internet Archive (archive.org). But they only show the series name + volume

(number). Archive.org does not show the real contents of those books. I open them one by one and carefully edit the information for Shelfari. I think I am doing a great service not just for myself but for any other readers of Spanish, who in future will have a faster access to the information it takes me time and patience to collect. Well, that is a publisher series and as such I edit all the books, but Shelfari always sent them all to a standard series, against my own editing. Maybe the first book, two years ago, was edited as "standard" by mistake and any book added to the series as "publisher" will be "corrected" by Shelfari, ignoring the editor. That stupidity could easily be avoided as follows: when you edit it as "publisher", Shelfari could ask something like "Are you sure this is a publisher series?" (click "yes" or "cancel") instead of "correcting" / ignoring my edit.

--I am again reading one of those books nobody reads. It is a rare book (author self-edition, and the author died in 1999. Never again republished). I am adding quotes to the book page (by typing them into the Quotes section from the DTB). One of the quotes I typed is invisible, but if you click "edit" the section, you will see the quote is there. This is not the first time my quotes go "invisible". This new case involves http://www.shelfari.com/books/3096606/AlMandari-el-granadino-fundador-de-Tetu%C3%A1n

--A few days ago, TheLibrarian

...en Marruecos perduraron ms los carniceros salvajes que en el Sur de Espaa. Se ha podido registrar, por ejemplo, la presencia de leones en la zona tangerina y el litoral atlntico muy avanzado el siglo XVII. (pg. 24)

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