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Originally Posted by dandelioncottage
I hate this feature too and would love to hear some workarounds. The only thing I've figured out is to type in my country name in the right-hand search box and then sort by state
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Thank you. Typing in:
United States
works for me. No abbreviation for that seems allowed.
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
For internet explorer it is settings>internet options>advanced.
To block all websites that you've already allowed to find your approximate location, click Clear sites
The same for Chrome IIRC.
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I tried that, and a few other anti-geolocation settings I googled, but it still knows I am 38.6 miles from Allentown New Jersey, regardless of browser, and even regardless of Windows or Linux. You must have the touch
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
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For those using this, the inclusion of OpenLibrary and 3M has to be an awesome feature. And I don't find reading through OpenLibrary misscans annoying. My main problem with the Calibre plugin is that, despite reading the documentation, I can't figure out a good way to specify the book I am looking for. I've mostly tried getting the ISBN from Kobo.com and then using the Calibre Add Books to bring in the metadata. That sometimes works, but for the book I mentioned in #25, and am now reading as a Kindle eBook from the Brooklyn Overdrive collection, the plugin returns:
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Starting job: Search lending libraries for 1 book
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Search BPL for winter by c. sansom
Post http://digitalbooks.brooklynpublicli...esultsList.htm Sort=SortBy%3DRelevancy&PerPage=20&Title=%22winter %22&Creator=%22c.+sansom%22&CollDate=&Subject=&For mat=420%2C50%2C410%2C450%2C610%2C810&Language=&Pub lisher=&Award=&interestlevel=&AtosBooklevel=&Lexil elevel=&GradeLevel=&availabilityoptions=
Search returned 0 results in 1.05 sec
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So, for now, I am sticking with the dandelioncottage approach.