February 16, 2006

BookJetty.com

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Herryanto said:

I find myself doing repetitive task of searching good books in amazon site and checking NLB online catalogue if they are available in the library. Very time consuming, so this site combines information from Amazon and NLB under one page. Do check it out.

Recommended by johannes: "easy to use.. though still beta and a bit slow.."

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Submitted by johannes on February 15//11:12pm and published by jseng, shianux :: 2215 reads | trackback
Comments 6

Very nice.

Posted by preetamrai on 16 February, 2006 - 11:08am

This is a grrrreat service. I do the same each time too... seaching in amazon then in sg lib if the book is available. From techie point of view, the site is also very well done, nice layout of info, and if u mouse over on lib link, it shows which lib branch is on load and not on loan. nice demo of how useful web services can be.

Posted by lib user* on 16 February, 2006 - 12:20pm

Oh hell yes!

Posted by Suparman* on 16 February, 2006 - 2:18pm

This is absolutely smashing! Three thumbs up for the webmaster!

Posted by geekgeek on 16 February, 2006 - 5:16pm

Yes, I agree it's nice work! There are some bugs (e.g. holdings not entirely accurate) but that's understandable since it's BETA. But have written to the site owner to remove the NLB logo and include statement that its not affliated to NLB -- because things like that might cause misunderstandings and marr an otherwise excellent grassroots initiative.
* Views expressed ar my own and do not represent those of my employer.

Posted by ramblinglibrarian on 21 February, 2006 - 1:42pm

Thx guys for your feedback, and Jo for posting to this blog site! And I've just enchanced the site to check all book editions using xISBN service. It is now easier to find a book in the library. :)

Posted by jugend on 16 March, 2006 - 6:07pm