05-21-2007, 07:38 AM | #1 |
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Index of downloadable books added
We now have quite a number of "Sony Reader" books available for download from the Reader Book Uploads sub-forum, and it may be reaching the stage where people find it a little difficult to see what's there.
To help people see what's available to download, I've added an Index of Downloadable Books sticky thread to the forum, which lists all the available books, sorted by author. I'll keep this updated to reflect new uploads, at least on a weekly basis (holidays, etc, permitting!). If you spot anything missing from the list, please add it in a message at the end of the thread - I'll make the changes, and then delete your message. Sorry - the items in this index are not hyperlinks to the appropriate threads. It would be a lot better if they were, I know, but I'm afraid it's just way too much work to make them all into hyperlinks. If anyone knows of any way to automate the process, I'd love to know . As a matter of interest, as of this moment we have 177 files available for download. That corresponds to at least double that number of individual books, because many of the uploads are anthologies and omnibus volumes, containing several books. I'd like to thank everyone who's contributed to the Book Upload area. It's really "taking off" now, with lots of people contributing, and there's lots of great stuff there. My only problem now is that I don't have nearly enough time to read all the books that I now want to . Anyway, I hope that people find this "index" a useful facility. |
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I just tried something that works like a charm. If you see a book you like here. Just use the "search' Function on the blue toolbar at the top of the page and type in the book you want. It will give you a link to that page to download the book.
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Author Lastname, Firstname: Book-Title(Version) Date-Added. All titles that would not follow the scheme would be ignored in the automated index. How does this sound? |
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05-21-2007, 10:04 AM | #4 |
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That sounds wonderful if it could be done!
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05-21-2007, 10:11 AM | #5 |
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We'll work on it today.
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We should all know by now that Alex can do anything! And he clearly never sleeps, either!
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05-21-2007, 11:49 AM | #7 |
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He's a star!
Any thread titles which don't follow the naming convention are easy enough to change, so that's not a problem. I know that the vast majority of them are fine. |
05-22-2007, 04:42 AM | #8 |
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Sweet idea about the indexing Harry, saves curious people from having to do too much rooting around.
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05-22-2007, 04:44 AM | #9 |
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I'm happy to manually maintain the index until Alex is able to come up with an automated system. The hard work was creating the original index. Adding new stuff to it is no effort at all.
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With Harry T's index and with Alex's automation of the addition of new entries, any of us can quickly and easily ensure that we haven't missed books we were hoping for. I understand Azaysel's point about people rooting around, because much great reading material can be discovered by serendipity, but I also value my time and appreciate the index as a means of easily keeping up to date with the wonderful new offerings. Thanks for getting things started, Harry T! |
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OK, we hacked a bit of a code and this is the first result:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/ebooks.php Any comments are welcomed of course. Our ultimate goal would be to separate authors from book titles, but right now it's virtually impossible -- unless we make the rules for titles even more stringent. Right now there are simply too many possible variations to allow for a foolproof separate indexing of authors + book titles. |
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I agree with JSWolf! It's also cool that you can click on the column titles to sort according to different criteria.
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05-23-2007, 01:45 PM | #15 |
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And I like the links to the threads as well. Very helpful.
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