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The Daily Wish List is a summary of items added to the Club Wish List in the previous 24 hours. It arrives in an email every day to your inbox, and contains a link to the books newly wished-for in the genres you have preselected when you subscribed. The Daily Wish List is a free email subscription feature at PBS; you can subscribe in your Account Settings.

How to use the Daily Wish List:

Initial Setup/Subscribing

  • Log into PBS
  • Place your cursor over My Account in the toolbar at the top of any page on the site
  • Click Settings in the menu that drops down
  • Click the link "Daily Wish List" in the yellow Settings bar (farthest to the right)
  • Set "Daily Wish List' to "on" at the top of the page
  • Select your display preferences:
    • "Include Book Images" (Yes/No)
    • "Sort by" (group by genre and order alphabetically/group and order entire list alphabetically)
  • Then preselect your genres:
    • Click to place a checkmark in the box next to any genres/subgenres you would like to include
      • Some genres are huge (eg, Literature&Fiction) and it is wisest to select subgenres in that case
      • There is no limit to the number of genres/subgenres you can select
    • Your selections will appear in the box on the upper right of the page
      • Drag them into the order you would like them to appear (if you have chosen "group by genre and order alphabetically" in your display preferences)
      • this will determine which genres are shown in what order in your Daily Wish List
    • Cick to apply your choices
      • You can return at any time to change these settings
      • If you make alterations later, just click Update Settings to apply those changes

Altering your Daily Wish List Subscription:

  • Return to the Daily Wish List Settings page from the Daily Wish List link in the Settings bar as above
  • Click to uncheck genres/subgenres you no longer wish to include
  • Click to check any new genres you wish to include
  • Change the display preferences at the top of the page if you wish
  • Click to apply your changes

Suspending/Unsubscribing from the Daily Wish List:

  • Return to the Digest Settings page from the Daily Digest link in the Settings bar as above
  • Choose "Off" at the top of the page
  • Cick
  • This will pause your Daily Wish List subscription, while preserving your Genre/Subgenre choices
  • To resume your subscription, just return to this page, choose "On" at the top of the page and click Update Settings again.

Using the Daily Wish List

  • When the email arrives in your inbox, click the link in the message body
  • You will be taken to a page on the PBS site customized by you!


 

 


Related Links:

 

What is the Wish List?
How the Wish List Works
What is the Club Wish List?