Yup, I'm always in list view for that very reason of the convenience of just
hitting the h key to go through search results.
Evan
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From: Llaph
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 11:27 PM
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Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: What happened to fiction?
Another thing that I do, which is just personal preference, is to make sure
that I click on list view. That way I can just hit the H Key for headings
and go book by book down The list. I also bookmark this page so I can get
back to it without having to browse through everything again.
Melissa
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After you do your search there are some combo boxes just before the list of results. One of them is sort order. One of the choices is date added. select that one and click the refine results button and you get a list sorted from most recent to oldest. I just tested my own advice by going to the advanced search and modifying it by checking only the literature and fiction category. I got well over 200 thousand results. I then refined it to the sort order of date added. Interestingly enough, the first two on the list were nonfiction books of literary criticism, but after that everything was fiction as far down the list that I looked including a number of Terry pratchett books at the top. Also, I did not count how far I went down the list, but it was quite a way with my settings set to display 100 results per page, and the one I then checked for the date added was added today. That means that there are scads of fiction added just today. Remember, if you are looking for a specific kind of book don't just look at a list of thousands of random books and then complain that you are not finding what you want. Take some action and refine the list to get what you want. In fact, go to the advanced search and play around with it. You will find a lot of things you can do with it.
On 3/27/2017 9:15 PM, lana wrote:
How do you sort by date added?
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I usually sword bye literature and fiction and then sort it by date added. I used to just be able to search to buy new books, but I had to weed through a lot of books that I had no interest in.
Melissa
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Well, speaking only for myself, I have no issues finding loads of fiction at Bookshare.
for me nls and bookshare can work in harmony as I find items in one that I do not find in the other. further nls does not provide text and bookshare does.
still, your idea of fiction and mine may be different. likewise our methods of searching.
Kare
On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, lana wrote:
Depends on the kind of fiction you like. Bookshare has given me tuns and tuns more than Bard, though the latter’s reading experience is more pleasant.
From: JOHN HUFFMAN
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 9:17 AM
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Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: What happened to fiction?
As a personal comment,
I don’t rely on Bookshare for fiction, except in very rare cases. I’ve actually told friends that there’s more fiction on BARD and at NLS in general than I could read in ten lifetimes. . Where I have found Bookshare worth the membership is in the realms of history, biography and religion. Many such books are likely to make their way into an NLS catalog belatedly, if at all.
Again, this is purely a personal view, and we each have our own.
Cheers! JH
From: lana [mailto:lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 10:26 AM
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Subject: [bookshare-discuss] What happened to fiction?
It’s nice that bookshare has so many nonfiction books which must be helpful for professionals, and I understand that some publishers dump books on us for reasons of their own, but where did the fiction go, and how do I find it among thousands of technical books? Where is the Bookshare I have known and loved for years?
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