Sunday is scheduled downtime
May 7, 2010
BookMooch will be unavailable most of Sunday, as I need to swap out a hard disk and replace it with a larger one. The “books” database is getting bigger than the current disk can handle.
Fortunately, thanks to those of you who give a little, I had $600 in the BookMooch account I could spend on a newer, bigger “SSD Drive”.
-john
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Thanks for the heads up! I’ve been meaning to give a little, I guess this is my reminder.
Well, might be time to give a little more. My kids are around for the big weekend Mother’s day festivities. I’ll take up a collection.
Mike
Thanks for the warning.
Glad to give a little each month to one of my favorite websites! Keep up the good work, and THANK YOU, John!
Thanks for letting us know what to expect on Sunday, John, and thanks for letting us know where some of the money is going. You’re the best!
Michelle
It’s good to know that the money is working for us! Thanks a million John!
I appreciate the ‘FYI’. I just hope I remember…
Thank you, John, for all the hard work you do to keep the site up and running for us all.
I am happy to give a little, just wish it could be a little more.
Hope the hard disk swap out is a simple and flawless procedure for you!
Thanks for letting us know.
Perhaps next time you could give an indication of the time and time zone? Sunday is almost over in Australia when it starts in the USA.
THANKS
Whoa… it seems to be loading the pages super fast even on my slow dialup!
Now maybe I can actually get into the forums! I’ve never been able to before with my slow connection.
This is great! I was expecting to have BM withdrawals…LOL…but you got everything all done surprisingly fast, John!
Thanks again for providing this wonderful site for us.
Thank you John for all your hard work. This site is great.
Is the disk change the reason that the Amazon search does not work at present?
We really do appreciate all your hard work! I do have a question though – I’ve been trying to browse this morning and when I put a book/author on the Amazon browse line, nothing is showing up. Is this a temporary glitch with the update or permanent? Thanks for all you do!
This is also happening to me!
Amazon search not working for me, either.
(I’m not complaining, you understand—I’m very grateful for BookMooch—I’m just letting John know that the problem isn’t just Kathy.)
I am also having troubles as Kathy described.
No more tech reports needed folks, we’re working on the problem with the Amazon connection now.
Mark W
Bookmooch Team
The problem with the connection to Amazon has been resolved. You can now search for and add books from Amazon.
Many who entered new books yesterday show a blank entry for any book not previously in the BM database. These will be filled in with the correct data within the next 12h.
Thankyou to John & Mark for all you do for the colllective good of BMers.
BM: couldn’t live without it!!