I think that is a great idea, Jessamyn.
Let OL not be like many other libraries that only make sense to...
librarians (I am a librarian too, at least that is what my diploma
sys; but I make a living programming and teaching programming).
On the other hand, perhaps a better idea would be to
Is this related to the bright blue banner that suddenly started appearing a
couple of days ago?
e.g. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24152480M/Little_men
I think the current default is fine, although I do have some of the same
questions as Karen as far as what the proposed change would look like
Am 03.11.2013 17:22, schrieb Luciano Ramalho:
On the other hand, perhaps a better idea would be to launch another
site, with another name, to promote the ebooks available in OL. Of
course this would cost a few hundred times more than just changing the
default.
I definitely support this option
There's been some discussion at the Archive of ways to make Open
Library a bit more usable to folks who want to use it for book reading
and borrowing. One of the ideas was to make the site search default to
ebooks instead of records (i.e. having the ebooks box checked by
default which is not how
I think that's a great idea even though I primarily use the site for
research purposes. It should increase use of the collection as well.
On Saturday, November 2, 2013, jessamyn c. west wrote:
There's been some discussion at the Archive of ways to make Open
Library a bit more usable to folks
Jessamyn -
Actually, that was done once a while back, and didn't work because there
was no way to turn it off. So all you could get were the ebooks records,
none of the others. (Every time you hit search it turned it back on,
even if you'd just unchecked the box.) Clearly, it has to be done a
