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Originally Posted by rracoon01
I have found my library very responsive to my recommended books, adding them quickly. In that light, I search Overdrive.com by hand looking for books on my wish list. It would be right handy if I could do that through your wonderful plugin.
I tried adding a new Overdrive lending library to the plugin customize page using www.overdrive.com as the Library ID and leaving the optional fields blank. The log yielded the following error message:
Signing in to OD.Com: : Server response error (Failed to locate advanced search page for library. Possible incorrect library id.)
I too cannot find an advanced search page on the website. If there is anyway you can get this to work I think many people would appreciate it.
Please and thanks.
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It would be quite a bit of work to support searches at
www.overdrive.com since it uses an interface that is different from the individual OverDrive libraries.
If your library allows recommendations made via OverDrive then the plugin can already search for recommendable books by selecting the option "Check for books that can be recommended for acquisition (slow)" in the plugin configuration before performing a search. This will find recommendable books and provide links to the pages on which the recommendations can be made. You can read more about this option on the "Help" page for the plugin.
If your library doesn't support recommendations through OverDrive, you can still find books that you can recommend using other means, but it will take a little more effort. You need to find an OverDrive library, in the same country as your library, that supports recommendations made via OverDrive. For example, in the U.S. the Brooklyn Public Library (
digitalbooks.brooklynpubliclibrary.org) supports this. You can then enable that library for search by the plugin along with the "Check for books that can be recommended for acquisition (slow)" option. When the plugin discovers books either available or recommendable at that library, you will know that those books are in the OverDrive system and can try recommending them to your library for acquisition.