[bookshare-discuss] Re: browse more difficult
- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:02:08 -0500
On the old site, we used to be able to get all of the books on what was then
called Step 1 all at once. This is useful because you can search the entire
list of books waiting for check out at the same time. Also, you used to get the
entire list of authors under a specific letter on one page, also enabling you
to search for a particular author's name beginning with that letter without
multiple clicking.
I'm not an engineer either, but how stressful can it be for a computer to send
out a list of names with a few hundred entries, or even a thousand, as in the
case of some letters of the alphabet?
Evan
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From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
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Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 2:24 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: browse more difficult
I think the maximum number of results that can be displayed per page has been
100 all along anyway. It has something to do with the limitations of computer
code. I think we now have the ability to change the sort order. At least we do
on the checkout list. It would be good if we had an easier way to narrow
results. It would also be nice if the results were numbered and we could jump
to a certain number, Otherwise, I suppose that the best solution is to use the
browse feature just for casual browsing and the search fields, even with its
limitations, for searching for something specific. As for me, after browsing
through a hundred results it is not very much trouble to just click for the
next page of a hundred. When the results are a very large number, though, I do
wish it was easier to jump to a specific page.
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[bookshare-discuss] browse more difficult
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1/24/2009 5:07:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
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Hello everyone,
I decided to get the book An Involuntary King by Nan Hawthorne. It took
longer than I think it should have. Instead of search, I decided to use
Browse Authors.
When I got there, instead of getting the whole list of authors starting with
H, or whatever letter I clicked on, I got 100 named. After clicking Next
several times, I got there.
I would like to have a way of getting all the authors under a letter.
I like a lot of things about the new site, the use of centered headings and
easy classification of things, but that is an improvement that would make
things less time-consuming.
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