Apparently, as long as you are logged in, if you change your language
preference in the advanced search it sticks. It took me a while to
figure this out. On the home page there is a part that announces the
total number of books in the collection. I found out, though, that if
you click the search button on that page without filling anything in the
search field it will return hundreds of thousands of results, nearly the
entire collection. The number was always short of what was reported in
the entire collection though. I wondered for a long time why there was
this difference. Eventually I realized that when browsing these results
I never came across a book in any other language but English. Checking
the advanced search I noticed that the language choice remained English,
which I had chosen in an early search. The difference in that blank
search and the total number of books in the collection was apparently
due to foreign language titles being excluded.
On 3/28/2017 3:13 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Hi folks,
Granted I just did this swiftly, but have a question.
Is there an option in say your my-bookshare profile to produce only works in English?
I decided to first check again for cursed child <sigh I know it is coming!> then to see if the next e. l. James work was in the collection.
One title I already have, Grey, seemed to be missing now, but it might be there in another language, Spanish perhaps. In fact when I checked the author, of the 13 items that appeared most were in Spanish. That is amazing, but I am not fluent, so would prefer the search produce English titles. is this a choice?
As I write I realize I might have missed Grey because I searched e. l. James, with her perhaps showing up differently.
What about language though?
Thanks,
Karen
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Evan Reese wrote:
Well, in the case of looking through new books on Bookshare, you can create your own "weather" by using the Advanced Search as several others have suggested. Wading through tons of books one has no interest in is a choice, not a necessity.To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Evan
-----Original Message----- From: lana
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 9:42 AM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: What happened to fiction?
I hope you are right. I've found these trends before, but they
didn't seem to go on for so long. Maybe it really will rain today.
-----Original Message----- From: Ann Parsons
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 5:23 AM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: What happened to fiction?
Hi all,
The type of book which is "new" on Bookshare is like the seasons or
like the weather. Some weeks you get an influx of nonfiction,
technical books, and then the next week you are drowning in romances or
mysteries. We say here in Rochester, NY, that if you don't like the
weather, wait half an hour and it will change. Same is true for the
new books on Bookshare.
Ann P.
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