If you want to see the fiction books that have just been added to the collection or any other of the Bookshare categories that have just been added to the collection then go to the advanced search and arrow down to categories. Check the category or categories you are interested in and then search. When the search is completed there is a sort by combo box just before the results. Use that to select a sort by date added. You will then have your category displayed by the most recently added books first. A lot of the publisher quality books will not be included because there is a tendency for those books to not be categorized, but a presort would leave those out too. It might be a rather tedious process, but you can get uncategorized books to be categorized by making a quality report and saying what category or categories they belong in.
On 12/28/2014 5:39 PM, Patti Johnson wrote:
I agree. The new books needs to be split into categories, so one can just look at what one wants to, not ha ve to plow through a lot of stuff. I only look at the new books a few days a week, and after a time I qauit looking, I get tired of seeing things that don't interest me. For those who want the educational and information things it's wonderful but for me, I just want to see fiction titles that have been newly released, not have to just search for something.Patti On 12/28/2014 5:34 PM, Dianne B. Phelps 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.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
