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#1 Posted : Saturday, February 25, 2023 10:08:30 AM(UTC)

There is a problem with the ≣ option of View As. Searching for paul's bake off in recipes on My Bookshelf I get back the following as the first few results of 532 in the default sort order. It looks like all these recipes are in the same book but they are not. If you mouse-over the links for The Great British Bake Off is is clear there are different publications.


Paul's chocolate & raspberry baked Alaska (page 235) from The Great British Bake Off by Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith and The Bake Off Team
Paul's ma'amoul [Paul Hollywood] (page 255) from The Great British Bake Off by Linda Collister
Paul's jammy biscuits (page 93) from The Great British Bake Off by Paul Hollywood and The Bake Off Team and Prue Leith
Paul's ciabatta breadsticks (page 199) from The Great British Bake Off by Paul Hollywood and The Bake Off Team and Prue Leith
Paul's caramel biscuit bars (page 219) from The Great British Bake Off by Paul Hollywood and The Bake Off Team and Prue Leith


Each of the books has a subtitle, for example the first two results are from https://www.eatyourbooks...e-great-british-bake-off and https://www.eatyourbooks...e-great-british-bake-off respectively.


The problem is compounded when using Download CSV as again the subtitles of the books are omitted.

#2 Posted : Saturday, February 25, 2023 12:48:29 PM(UTC)

I can see how that would be an issue where the start of the title is the same across a lot of books. I have gone through all the GBBO books making the sub-title part of the title. You will now see the full title on the abbreviated view and the csv download. This is your search where you can the full book titles.


We took out sub-titles for the abbreviated view as some sub-titles are very long. Some members like to have a printout of their Bookshelf and with sub-titles the list could double in size.

#3 Posted : Saturday, February 25, 2023 2:15:57 PM(UTC)

Jane;31711 wrote:
… I have gone through all the GBBO books making the sub-title part of the title.


Thank you, and bless you for doing that.

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