Hi Monica and all, It looks like there are two view options on the new books page. The default is table view, changing that to list view will give you the synopses back. You'll find the list view option just below the donate now link on the New books page... Hope this helps Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Monica Willyard To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 2:29 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: I don't like the new site It's a split for me because I really like having the download link on the same page as the book list. I wanted that feature. I do want to see a short synopsis too though. I want both, not an either or deal. I don't want to open a books individual page unless I want more details about it. Monica Willyard "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:35 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: I don't like the new site I think the jury is still out on the new site, but I also miss the short synopsis. Why have both a short and long synopsis if they are going to appear together on the book information page?--Makes no sense. In the past I'd use the short synopses on the "new books" page to determine whether or not I wanted to do further investigation. But, I'm not going to bring up a new screen for a book unless I really think I want to read it, as that could take a long time. As I said in the beginning, I think the jury is still out on the new site--they still have problems so I think we should give them time to work some of those out. I do wish they had asked us what we thought about the layout before surprising us with it. After all, we might have some ideas of our own. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Riddle To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:44 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] I don't like the new site I don't like the new bookshare site. I miss the short synopsis appearing on the browse books page. Why on earth was that taken away.