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Glad to see another site available, and I will definitely spend more time browsing here.
I find the site clear and uncluttered and thankfully lacking pop-ups and animated distractions.
I spent a while browsing through the European History topic:
- the absence of the author's name on the basic listing does not help. For example, is "Course of German History" a basic text book or is it A J P Taylor's work? (It is the latter)
- I found one instance where the wrong description has been applied - Jan Morris, "Europe, an intimate journey" has acquired this description "Using a detailed analysis of the writings of Nietzsche, Elbe seeks to articulate a more meaningful idea of Europe, which would enhance the legitimacy of the European Union and provide the basis for a European identity."
- A lot of the titles are heavy-duty academic texts; nonetheless, the prices utterly gast my flabber, for example, "Identity and agency in England, 1500-1800" presumably a snip at £50.40 for a pdf vs. £56.05 for the hardback on Amazon;
- the absence of good descriptions is a hindrance, for example, "How the war was won" - which war??;
- Some titles have received unhelpful abbreviation, for example "Romantic Nat Tale Question Ireland" is really "The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland". I had to scrutinise the enlarged cover image to discover this;
- Searching does work, but could work better. for example, a search on "a j p taylor" produced a multi-page listing, when there is only one title by this author. Similarly, a search for "Identity and agency in England" produced a listing at the top of the page which definitely showed this title; possibly because of user error I was unable to select this specific title and ended up with a 13+ page listing for every item with the word "identity" in the title. Again, I got there in the end, but would have liked to get there more quickly;
- My preferred ebook format is epub. I saw very few examples of this format.
I think much of what I've itemised above could be resolved fairly easily, and I'll certainly be back to this site again. Please accept my apologies if my post seems overly negative - I'm really glad to see another ebook site and I hope you're successful with this.
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