Michael Sauers is the Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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3 Replies to “Amazon 1, Libraries 0”
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Nice idea. But rather uneven in execution, many books lack that info. For instance, I searched for Islandia and found it had references to other books. However, there was no list for references to Islandia. I know some exist. In the example he gives, it lacks the list of books cited by the item. Good idea though.
I’ll agree that it’s uneven, just like many of their other advanced features such as “search inside the book” and tagging. The point, however, is that they’re doing it and we’re not.
ouch!
Nice idea. But rather uneven in execution, many books lack that info. For instance, I searched for Islandia and found it had references to other books. However, there was no list for references to Islandia. I know some exist. In the example he gives, it lacks the list of books cited by the item. Good idea though.
I’ll agree that it’s uneven, just like many of their other advanced features such as “search inside the book” and tagging. The point, however, is that they’re doing it and we’re not.