[bksvol-discuss] Re: search question
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:35:23 -0700 (PDT)
Allison, that was an excellent post -- good ideas and
clearly stated. Thank you.
Cindy
--- Allison <alwaysallie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Sharon and other searchers,
>
> The keyword search on Bookshare would be great,
> wouldn't it? Only I'm not
> sure what kind of work would go into putting it up,
> so it may be a while in
> coming. I'm sure it is being worked on though.
> Until then, there are some
> things you can try that may help you out at finding
> books without a keyword
> search. I'll list a couple below for those who are
> interested.
>
> 1. Use your key words, separately, as a title
> search. For example, putting
> children or child in a search would come up with all
> the books with these
> words in their title. It will get you a relatively
> long list of books, and
> many of them won't be relevant, but some of them
> will be, and that will make
> it worth while. Another good title word to search
> for in Sharon's case
> would be teach or teaching, or learner. If you go
> with a simple word or
> half of it, the search results will be broader. For
> example, the word,
> child, would bring up all books with the word child,
> children, child's,
> childhood, etc.
>
> 2. When you find a book you like in a particular
> area, press enter on the
> book's title. That takes you to the download page
> for that book, rather
> than downloading it, read all the way down the page.
> If you go far enough
> down, past the long synopsis, past the ISBN, and
> past the copyright
> information, it lists the name of the submitter of
> that book. Sometimes it
> will just say a bookshare.org volunteer, and that
> won't help you out, but if
> it was submitted by a person who puts a name on
> their submissions, their
> name will be attached to a link. That link will
> take you to a page with a
> list of every book submitted by that individual.
> It's not full-proof, but
> chances are that, if you, for example, really
> enjoyed this individual's
> books about teaching, it's likely that that
> submitter may have similar
> interests to your own, and may have scanned other
> books along similar lines.
>
> 3. Every author has a link to other books by that
> author. If there is a
> book you like, you can enter on that author's link
> and find all the books
> Bookshare has by that author.
>
> And, that's all my tips. Sorry it was a long post,
> but I wanted to give all
> the steps for those who wanted them. Sure, a
> keyword search would be really
> nice, but until then there are a couple techniques
> to get around that and
> find some good books.
>
> Happy reading, and let me know if you have any other
> questions.
>
> Best,
> Allison
>
>
>
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