[bookshare-discuss] Re: Need Suggestions, please.

  • From: "Deborah Murray" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:53:02 -0500

Hi Dianne,

 

You're on the right track using the advanced search on Bookshare. You can
check one or more categories you are interested in as well as book quality.

 

After you get your search results, look for the combo box with sort options.
At or near the bottom is a choice to sort by date added. Choose that option
and press enter on the "go" button and your search results should come up
with the newest books at the top.

 

Let us know if that works for you.

Deborah

 

 

From: Dianne B. Phelps [mailto:d.bphelps@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 5:35 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Need Suggestions, please.

 

I am sorry to say that I am having trouble finding new and interesting books
to read. I have tended to be a user of the New Books List; however because
that list also lists so many professional titles and educational titles
which I am glad to see Book Share providing, I am having difficulty finding
new fiction. Does anyone know of published lists of new and good books for
pleasure reading.

 

I may not have all the techniques of searching the BookShare collection; but
I am feeling a little as though with publisher inputting to the system, Book
Share itself is losing control over how we can find things. Maybe what we
need is "New Book" catagories instead of that one huge list of everything
which comes in.. I'd like to be able to look for New Mysteries, New
Biographies, New fiction and nonfiction. I feel as though we are getting a
lot of republishing of old titles; and I find it confusing.

 

Any suggestions or techniques others may find helpful would be extremely
helpful to me. 

 

I just don't know what I am missing in use of Advanced Search. If I use some
of the catagories, I get lists which are in Alpha order without the ability
to move to other letters of the alphabet easily.

 

I love and appreciate Book Share dearly, but am feeling I will need to weigh
the benefits versus cost if finding material continues to be sodifficult.

 

Anyhelp offered will be greatly appreciated.

 

Feeling frustrated,

 

Dianne B. Phelps, Napa, California

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