![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are queer characters, but the romance is more of a secondary plot point. This is a dystopian novel written in a sort of magical realism style. Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block. LibraryThing is not affiliated in any way with Google or the many libraries that have so generously provided Google with their books and bibliographic metadata, although we share a love of books, a desire to make information as freely available as possible, and similar opinions about evil.I just posted a bunch of LGBTQ YA titles that I read this year in the "What Are You Reading" thread. The script itself is, however, pretty amateurish–a notice attempt at what Altay did expertly.Īs we put on the bookmarklet: “Google and Google Book Search are registered trademarks of Google. We could have never done it if Altay hadn’t shown us the way in this sort of Javascript. ***It’s quite amazing what a bookmarklet can do. It often refuses to show me Google Blog Search pages in Firefox because I look at LibraryThing’s blog coverage too much. *Come to think of it, it works like Google. Librarything book suggester full#Full XML downloads of the data are also available there. It’s not clear to us that Google is trying to control access to its ID numbers. All we want to do is link to them, to send them traffic. We think it’s perfectly fine for Google to control access to the scans it’s made. We’ve railed against OCLC for its desire to lock up book metadata.īut we’re not railing here. Our commitment to open data is long-standing. In limited tests I’ve found it picks up around 90% of LibraryThing titles. Our bookmarklet works by transcending ISBNs, using what LibraryThing knows about titles, authors and dates to fetch other editions of a work. Call us naive, but we aren’t going to be able to “pretend Google isn’t there.” And we aren’t convinced that Google is going to create the sort of robust cataloging and social networking features that LibraryThing has. Being able to search your own books is useful, and LibraryThing members should be able to do it. We WANT people to use Google Book Search. The Google-kills-LibraryThing meme has another dimension. Of these a high percentage are only “limited preview” or “no preview.” Then there are the books publishers have explicitly removed from Google Book Search. Most of their books come from a handful of academic libraries, and academic libraries don’t have the same editions regular people have. Google just doesn’t have the sort of books that regular people have. It wasn’t even the privacy issues, although these gave many pause. It wasn’t so much the lack of any social features, or of cataloging features as basic as sorting your books. LibraryThing members were quick to dismiss it. A few tech bloggers saw an attack on LibraryThing. Last week Google introduced an interesting “My Library” feature, allowing people with Google accounts to list some of their books. Just as Google respects the robots.txt file, we’ll respect such a request. And Google can send us a note, and we’ll disable the bookmarklets. Ultimately, however, Google can put a stop to this. And because it takes place within a browser, it tends not to trigger machine-collection warnings. Making a bookmarklet distributes the work. The trick is that Google Book Search-like the rest of Google-has a system in place to stop machine queries.** The well-known Lib 2.0 blogger John Blyberg tried, as have others. Secretive and self-defeating? Seems like it to me.Įfforts have been made to collect Google IDs before. For some reason Google doesn’t publish these, making it impossible to tell what they have and what they don’t, and impossible for sites like LibraryThing to send them the traffic they want. But to link to a book on Google reliably you need its Google ID. We’ve tested it on FF and Safari on the Mac, and FF and IE7 and IE5.5 on the PC. You can see what pops up on the right.*** Press start and it will start collecting information. Google Book Search Search is a “ bookmarklet.” You save it to your “favorites” or “bookmarks.” Then you got to Google Book Search and you click it. A lot of people want a reliable index of what Google has, not least libraries. Librarything book suggester free#All of the data gathered is free and available to everyone. If you choose, you can pitch in and help with others’ books. There’s a lot of searching to do, and you can help. You’ll find a “search this book” link on work pages, and a Google Book Search field to add to the list view in your catalog.īut this isn’t just a selfish thing. When it’s done you can link to and search all the books in your library that Google has scanned. You set it up and searches Google Book Search slowly in the background.* You can watch, do something in another window or go out for coffee. Google Book Search Search is a bookmarklet that searches Google Book Search for the titles in your LibraryThing library. Introducing something new we’re calling “Google Book Search Search.” ![]()
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