PUBLIC MARKS from decembre with tags isbn & library2.0

I wanted to try Google's Books library which supports importing a list of comma-separated ISBNs. Since weRead doesn't support exporting your book shelf I wrote this script to show me ISBNs or ASINs parsed from the Amazon thumbnails. Instructions * From Facebook: Visit weread.com and use the Connect button to log in via Facebook Connect. * Navigate to http://weread.com/manageshelf/index.php * To export just your "Read It" list, first click the link next to "Show All Books" * To export all your books, click "100" to view as many books as possible * You'll need to export each page since this script can only see one page at a time * Use the Export command from Greasemonkey's command list

Groups Los Angeles Public Library (lapl.org) holds (requests) by status: Ready for Pickup, In Transit, or Pending. Instead of just listing the holds by status, this userscript groups them by status. For holds that are Ready for Pickup it shows for each pickup date: * The number of days you have left to pick up your holds. Remember that "a $1.00 fee will be charged if an item placed on hold is not canceled or picked up by the "Hold Until" date." * The day of the week when the holds are due to be picked up * The pickup date * and the number of items to be picked up by that date. This is then followed by the items due to be picked up sorted by title. For holds that are Pending I list the items by the ratio of available # of copies to queue position. This gives you some idea of the order in which your holds will be available. If the ratio is above 1.00 you can expect the hold to be available "soon" (within 3 weeks).

Customized Carrick Mundell’s LibraryLookup Greasemonkey script for the Seattle Public Library) to do the same for the Toronto Public Library. What’s it do? On any Amazon.com book listing page, the script inserts a hyper-link below the book title which, when clicked, will search for the book in the Toronto Public Library catalog. the Library Search Url and Library Name are now separate variables to make it a little easier to customized for other Library Systems. It does not work for the UK site. Why? Because the UK does not use the same class element names to give it a place to insert the html rewrite link. In fact, it only uses 2 class names on the whole item page. The Style Sheet and classes are there, they just don’t use them. Weird. This particular madness was kickoff by John Udell who started the LibraryLookup Project (http://jonudell.net/LibraryLookup.html) in 2002 (with bookmarklet’s). Many Thanks.

Catalog Bookmarklet Works with Internet Explorer or Firefox. Simply drag this LCLS Book Lookup to your Links bar in Internet Explorer or your Bookmarks Toolbar in Firefox. When ever you are on a Barnes & Noble or Amazon page with 10 digit ISBN numbers just click on the LCLS Book Lookup and it will search the Lycoming County Library System Catalog. For best results use the Amazon LCLS Lookup below. Adding a bookmarklet: Internet Explorer Instructions | Instructions for Firefox and Internet Explorer Amazon LCLS Lookup : Do you use Amazon.com® to locate books? Wish you could easily find out if the Library owns a book you have found? Now you can! : Our Amazon LCLS Lookup tool displays information about the Library status of books you find in Amazon, right on the Amazon results page. Just click on the link on the Amazon page and you wil see if a title is available locally. The Lookup tool requires the Firefox web browser. Look for this yellow box on any Amazon results page

....cela pourrait être proposé aux anti-capitalistes, jusqu’à ce que Google ou Yahoo rachète LibraryThing…effectivement Librarything propose 1 million de couvertures libres : "A million free covers from LibraryThing : A few days ago, just before hitting thirty million books, we hit one million user-uploaded covers. So, we've decided to give them away—to libraries, to bookstores, to everyone. The basics. The process, patterned after the Amazon.com cover service, is simplicity itself: 1. Take an ISBN, like 0545010225 2. Put your Developer Key and the ISBN into a URL 3. Put that in an image tag, like so: 4. And your website, library catalog or bookstore has a cover."

Honnêtement, j’ai eu du mal avec l’interface de paramétrages de LibX. Et comme je n’ai pas réussi à trouver de tutoriel simple en français, il me semble utile d’en faire un petit ici. Pour l’instant, mon objectif avec LibX sera “simple” (au regard de toutes les possibilités que l’outil offre) : obtenir des ISBN cliquables dans les pages web que je vais rencontrer. LibX permet aussi, par exemple, une articulation avec un résolveur de lien et un proxy (pour les ressources en ligne payantes). Mais on n’en est pas là.

Pourquoi est-ce que j’ai fait ça ? Parce que pour utiliser les API Amazon, il faut avoir une clé Amazon et utiliser les API en question pour un site web. Moi, j’en ai besoin en local, ponctuellement. J’avais pu tester les API LibraryThing pour constater qu’ils couvraient 30% de notre catalogue (sur un échantillon de 1000 ISBN). Je n’avais pas pu le faire pour Amazon. Désormais je sais qu’Amazon couvrirait 94% de nos notices. Pour être plus précis : Amazon a identifié 94% de nos ISBN. En l’état, cela ne me dit pas quel pourcentage de couvertures il peut me proposer, ou de tables des matières, résumés, commentaires, etc. Il faudrait que j’affine l’analyse des réponses que le site donne dans ses listes de résultats.

Operator, cette extension permet de repérer dans une page Web des annotations sémantiques à la base écrites avec les microformats pour effectuer des actions comme repérer un lieu dans Google Maps, récupérer une carte de visite... Si vous voulez en savoir plus, je vous conseille de lire cette traduction d'un article de Wired sur le blog de Christophe Ducamps. Après une longue réflexion, j'ai trouvé deux utilisations originales : * un exemple très bibliothéconomique pour visualiser un ouvrage dans Amazon ou Library thing à partir de l'ISBN ;