[bookshare-discuss] Re: Bookshare.org announces improved searching on its site
- From: "Pshon Barrett" <pbarrett@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:34:10 -0500
Another suggestion: how about a best sellers category. Now when you look in
new books you get children's books and whatever people happen to be
scanning, but the best sellers are what a lot of people want quickly and
don't want to wait a year for nls to get them recorded.
Pshon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Hovas" <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:05 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Bookshare.org announces improved searching
on its site
> Gustavo,
>
> This must be the big news Janice wouldn't tell us about. <Smile>
>
> I have a couple of suggestions for improvements, and one complaint. Yes,
> one complaint. I know, boooooo.
>
> I'll get the complaint over with first. <Smile> From what I saw, we now
> have to select Browse Books then New Books before we can get to the New
> Books list or to the Browse By Author or By Category pages. There doesn't
> appear to be any reason for burying these links down one level, so if
there
> isn't, please ask them to put it back to the way it was so we can go
> directly to the New Books list, as well as the Browse By Author and Browse
> By Category pages from any page, and not have to always pull up an
> intermediate page first.
>
> Now, I have a couple of suggestions.
>
> It would be nice to be able to search both short and long synopsis along
> with the author and title in the Simple Search.
>
> It would also be nice to be able to search for Fair books only or Fair and
> Good books only on the Advanced Search page in order to look for books
which
> need a rescan.
>
> Thanks for the improved search, and thank the rest of the staff for us as
> well.
>
> Gerald
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gustavo Galindo [mailto:Gustavo.G@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 12:44 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Bookshare.org announces improved searching on
> its site
>
>
>
> Bookshare.org is pleased to announce that our site's users now are able to
> search through our accessible on-line book collection more efficiently.
Here
> are a few upgrades to our searches we've made:
>
> * You may now search for either an author or a title or both from the
> search box available at the top of every page.
>
> * We have added a Simple Search
> <http://www.bookshare.org/web/BooksBySimpleSearch.html> Page where you can
> search for a book by its author, title, or both.
>
> * We have added an Advanced Search
> <http://www.bookshare.org/web/BooksByAdvancedSearch.html> Page where you
can
> find your books by title, author, language, scan quality, or categories.
>
> * We have improved and expanded our Browsing
> <http://www.bookshare.org/web/BrowseBooks.html> Features. You can Browse
by
> Authors <http://www.bookshare.org/web/BooksByAuthor.html> , Browse by New
> Books <http://www.bookshare.org/web/BooksNew.html> , Browse by
> <http://www.bookshare.org/web/BooksByCategory.html> Categories, or easily
> navigate amongst the browsing and searching options.
>
> * We've included the ability for our logged-in active subscribers to
> be able to download a DAISY file directly from the results on our Simple
> Search <http://www.bookshare.org/web/BooksBySimpleSearch.html> Page.
>
> If you have any questions or comments about our search improvements,
please
> let us know by writing to us at support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
<mailto:support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=Bookshare.org%20Search%20Enhancement>
> . We'd love to get your feedback.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> gustavo galindo
>
>
>
>
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