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

  • From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:19:13 -0800

oh, dear. I'd better stop Christmas/Chanukah, anniversary et al shopping
and get back to proofing. I have several things to finish in  a lot of
categories for people (but Idon't think any mysteries; there are some
really good ones in the collection I could recommend:  historical settings
-- Britain in the roman occupation era, but maybe you've already read them
 Cindy

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Dianne B. Phelps <d.bphelps@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> Any suggestions or techniques others may find helpful would be extremely
> helpful to me.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Anyhelp offered will be greatly appreciated.
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> Feeling frustrated,
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> Dianne B. Phelps, Napa, California
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