On Sunday 07 October 2007, Melanie Schuessler wrote: > Interesting. I've had that happen on both, and I would think the > incidence would be the same for both, as they're both simply > searching through other peoples' inventories. I don't think addall > or abebooks has any control over whether people actually have the > books they're listing.
That's true. I can believe, however that the incidence of "ooops, sold alreadys" might be higher on addall because addall reports results from a number of different engines as well as book stores; addall searches abe, for example. So some of the information addall is searching is two removes from the data it has (one remove because it's on abes, and the second remove because abe reports books on sale from many different stores in different countries). I like addall because it allows me to search most places I have a chance of making a hit at once, and it lets me find items that abe doesn't necessarily have. I do note, however, that bookfinder.com often has stuff from European stores that addall does not have. -- Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available."-- Gregory Benford _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
