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
