Quote:
Originally Posted by ForsCream
But that is disaster for user experience.
|
I would like to see how else you propose to get a list of users' books. Without asking for their login details of course.
Quote:
|
Does this service make use of Amazon's API?
|
AFAIK, no. I believe they were just web scraping.
P.S. The website:
http://ebookfling.com
Quote:
Originally Posted by ForsCream
And are you interested in such a tool?
|
No -- I tried out several of them, 2 or 3 years ago. I was quite unsatisfied, partially over the lack of enabled books, partially because people didn't seem much interested in lending books, partially because the library is so much more convenient in about a dozen ways.
But I wish you better luck.
Maybe you'll attract a lot of people and convince me.
That is the most important thing -- having enough people willing to fulfill loans.