If you want suggestions I think one of the best places to get suggestions is GoodReads.com. There is even a place on that site where you can ask for suggestions and type in what you are interested in and other users will make the suggestions. Good Reads also generates suggestions based on the books you shelve there. As for finding what you like on Bookshare itself, just go to the advanced search and try different parameters of search. Then don't forget that once you get your results there are several combo boxes just before the results where you can adjust the sort order or refine your results. Personally, I do not like to be confined to just the newly added books. I prefer to search and browse the entire collection for my own reading material, but if you really want the most recently added books one of those choices of sort order is date added and it will be in order of most recently added first.
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
