Great suggestions Andre! Though, I don't there is much active development
happening with the Open Library project at this time. At least that's my
impression from following the list for the past few years. IA is busy with
other projects unfortunately.
–Tod
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Andre Robatino
<robat...@fedoraproject.org>wrote:
> 1) When searching for an ebook, there appears to be no way to filter for
> the type. It would be useful to be able to either filter only for DAISYs
> (for people with impaired vision who can't use anything else), or to be
> able to exclude them. People with normal vision aren't even allowed to
> access protected DAISYs, so for them it's useless to include them in
> search results.
>
> 2) I noticed that when entering information such as Author, sometimes
> instructions are available ("Please use natural order. For example: Leo
> Tolstoy not Tolstoy, Leo.") and sometimes they're not (for example, the
> Author field under "Add a Book"). Many names are entered in the latter
> form. Having instructions available consistently would reduce this.
>
> 3) When I search for text that includes special characters (for example,
> "Gödel" or "español"), it matters whether I enter the special character
> or not ("Godel" or "espanol" will not match). Most people don't know how
> to type these characters. I'm fairly savvy but had to look it up. Maybe
> the search engine should return matches for "Gödel" when "Godel" is
> entered, and so on?
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