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Originally Posted by rwillmer
Thanks for taking the time for such a detailed grumblelist. This is really useful - I plan to take some time in October to sort out some of the major issues, so the more I know about what the problems are, the best use I can make of that time.
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Thanks for listening!
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I'll sort this out. I'm rather spoiled with a fairly high speed connection at home, so have forgotten what it's like to use dialup. What speed link do you have?
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Generally, 50.6 is what I connect at. I have a 56k modem. While a few people on dialup have slower than that, most don't. Dialup is the only internet available in some parts of the US (unless they can afford incredibly expensive satellite connections) and in many places in the rest of the world.
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This is the biggest problem I have, and it drives me crazy as a user of the site too. I have an idea about how to fix it, or at least make it better; but it's going to take a while to do it.
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There has *GOT* to be a way to search by title and author; currently, searching for 1984 turns up "1 Way 2 C The World : Writings 1984-2006 (Marilyn Waring)" and "Mercedes-benz 190 1984-88 Automotive Repair Manual (John S. Mead)" in addition to Orwell's book (and the combined version of it & Animal Farm, and the cliff notes).
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The homepage lists all the stores searched, do you mean you'd like to see on each book page a list of the shops that this particular book was not found at?
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Since people only see the home page once, and probably won't go back to it, a small-text list of the bookstores searched would be nice. A list of "results from the following stores" on each individual book page would also be useful.
Right now, it doesn't turn up any hits for 1984 from Amazon. (At least, not in the three or four named variants I checked.)
Other oddnesses:
It's very strange that it turns up print book prices--especially when it turns up print books with no ebooks available.
Clicking on the "Readers" link gets 9 or 10 blank spots before it shows the hot pink Cool-ER. (Are they spots for the Sonys and Aztak readers? Or Sonys & other colors of Cool-ERs?)