Quote:
Originally Posted by DianNC
I'm starting to think not one of the designers of NextGen ever had a library card or used a public library. If they had, they'd know that being able to see the full name of the book and author are essential.
The last of my libraries made the switch last night  ... sorta put me in a bad mood.
/rant off |
Agreed, that's what I've been saying all along.
It's like walking into a BN store and...
1) having your legs tied together so you can only move really slowly (slow load times)
2) having a blindfold on, so you can see very little (half view of title/author)
3) needing to call a store employee to get the blindfold off and get a book off the shelf so you can see the full title. He'll open up the book to the book info and cover text for you. This employee can also tell you if the book is available for purchase (detail view of a book)
5) waiting for a second employee to put your blindfold back on and point you to a big box where all the installments of a the series are, along with audio versions, but sometimes the audio versions have different looking covers, so unless you read the titles, you don't know for sure of there are duplicates. Of course, you were put the blindfold back on and can't tell for sure unless you have a closer look at the books. For this, an employee will open each book for you to see, then he'll throw it back in the box and fish out the next one. If it's one he already opened for you, oh well, too bad you did not remember you had already looked at that one. Wait, do you remember that the first one he picked is number 5, the second one number 3, the third one number 9? No? Maybe you should have written it down with pen and paper, then. You can have him order them by publication date, but because you are looking at audio and paper books, the order is out of whack.
Also, your BN does not have all installments in the series, really only books 3-9, but if you remember correctly, 7 was also missing. Had you known that, you would not have bothered in the first place. 15 minutes you could have spent looking at another box of books, that may or may not start at book 1. No way of knowing for sure, since you are still waiting for an employee to take your blindfold off and show you the contents of THAT box, book by book.
I am not even exaggerating here. This is the reality of browsing the new system, and browsing series with the new look.
Any comments, about this, Overdrive?!