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Originally Posted by Zevs
Thanks again Anotherchance! I must admit though that it is frustrating not to know what the new books each week really are ... Is there no simple way of finding that out ..? According to the statistics we got ~900 new books this last week, but what books are they? Sure the Connect store have a new releases page which for this last week shows a whopping ~50 new books.... but where are the rest, the 850 other new books that arrived this week.... ? Are they secret books, perhaps classified state secrets or .... ? Anyone else who wonders about this sometimes and who even sleeps bad in the night thinking of all the the good books we might have missed .. 
Zevs |
Zevs, I think this is a general problem with most or all online stores. Heck, I don't care just about what's new this week. I want to know what else is in their database I don't know about even if it was new a year ago. Just as with Amazon (whether for ebooks or pbooks), there's no way to know without spending an awful lot of time poking around. Each search returns a list of titles which you then need to slowly page through to get an idea what's there. At least at the library I can go to a section of interest to me and quickly scan the books on the shelf to see what's there. I wish vendors would provide a downloadable database of some variety that you could do something like that quickly. Even Project Gutenberg lets you see a complete list of everything there with a title or author starting with a certain letter. So why not Amazon or Sony? I should add that we have a similar issue at MR. It takes quite a while to see what's in our 4032 ebook library when you get to see only twenty books listed at a time.