MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Why so many versions of books up at Smashwords?

crich70 · 07-14-2014, 04:16 AM

My only bone to pick with it is that you are supposed to be able to download the books you have purchased from your purchase page but when multiple revisions of a book are up and you click on the link for a given book the following happens.
1. You are directed to the page with the revisions
2. You have to choose which revision you want
3. After starting the download of the chosen revision you have to click the back button to get back to the purchase page (if you want to download more than one of your purchases). And when you do that you have to wait for the page to finish loading up again so that you are then able to start downloading the next book that you want to download. That takes longer than downloading the actual book. Books without multiple revisions don't do all that. They just start to download and you can scroll down to the next one that you want to download. Why not add something to the coding of the page so that you can access old revisions (if you want) and just download the newest version if that is your choice?

07-14-2014, 04:16 AM	#13
crich70 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,310 Karma: 43993832 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Monroe Wisconsin Device: K3, Kindle Paperwhite, Calibre, and Mobipocket for Pc (netbook)	My only bone to pick with it is that you are supposed to be able to download the books you have purchased from your purchase page but when multiple revisions of a book are up and you click on the link for a given book the following happens. 1. You are directed to the page with the revisions 2. You have to choose which revision you want 3. After starting the download of the chosen revision you have to click the back button to get back to the purchase page (if you want to download more than one of your purchases). And when you do that you have to wait for the page to finish loading up again so that you are then able to start downloading the next book that you want to download. That takes longer than downloading the actual book. Books without multiple revisions don't do all that. They just start to download and you can scroll down to the next one that you want to download. Why not add something to the coding of the page so that you can access old revisions (if you want) and just download the newest version if that is your choice? Last edited by crich70; 07-14-2014 at 04:18 AM.