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Comment on My Year of Reading Diversely by Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 14 May 2013 22:47:46 +0000

Here’s a short one to add: The Honey Month, by Amal El-Mohtar. http://www.amazon.com/Honey-Month-Amal-El-Mohtar/dp/190788100X/ She’s one of my favorites.

Comment on eBook Purchasing and Personal Values by Andromeda

Andromeda — Fri, 03 May 2013 16:36:47 +0000

I’m wondering if, rather than entering an ISBN, it mightn’t make more sense to have a browser plugin that was like “you’re on amazon.com. would you rather buy the book from ___?”

Disad of have to code for more browsers, potential advantage of reminding you inside your workflow.

Also, if you do this, maybe do it collectively with the interest group? Could be a great project for the web-services niche.

Comment on eBook Purchasing and Personal Values by nicholas

nicholas — Fri, 03 May 2013 05:49:19 +0000

You are 100% correct Toby. I still have my code training wheels on, but I’m visualizing this in HTML5, javavascript, & some jquery mobile. I intentionally use app in a general sense, but it probably would pay to be more specific.

Comment on eBook Purchasing and Personal Values by Toby

Toby — Fri, 03 May 2013 02:36:31 +0000

I hate to be That Guy, but I’m hoping you mean “web app” when you say “app.” Coding something for one platform over another would seem to create the same kind of lock-in caused by ebook DRM.

I’ll stop being such a Poindexter now. I could totally see this working, perhaps along the lines of canistream.it. Either through screen-scraping or (if the vendor is nice) an available API, you could likely whip up some kind of metasearch without too much trouble.

Comment on eBook Purchasing and Personal Values by Anton

Anton — Thu, 02 May 2013 22:21:59 +0000

And if you do have to shop at Amazon, make sure you click through from an affiliate you want some of that money to go towards. I'm a fan of 'best of the left', but there are many out there.