I'm a huge fan of Booko, which has been doing exactly this for years
Thanks for the shout out. First SVN(!) commit was July 2, 2007, making Booko a 15+ year old Rails app.
Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
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Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#42Trying to make sense of this website, today I learned that Canada and the USA for example have no FBP (fixed book price) laws/agreements apparently. The more you know ...
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#43Trying to make sense of this website, today I learned that Canada and the USA for example have no FBP (fixed book price) laws/agreements apparently. The more you know ...
Sorry for the confusion, the site hasn't been optimized outside of the USA yet, so some of your results may be a slightly off in terms of pricing and delivery times. Working on improving that as we speak but I have to go country by country so it's slow going.
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
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What do you look for in a bookstore that makes them more responsible (apart from no Amazon) ?
Not parent, but I like, and try to direct money to, local bookstores that do events and provide spaces for small and local authors to reach the community.
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Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you look for in a bookstore that makes them more responsible (apart from no Amazon) ?
Not parent, but I like, and try to direct money to, local bookstores that do events and provide spaces for small and local authors to reach the community.
If the site also parsed local bookstores (the ones that put their catalogues online) and allowed you to filter for local bookstores, is that something that you would find useful?
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#46While not the most modern UI in the world, addall.com has been around forever and still does the trick well enough for me. Although these days I usually just go straight to thriftbooks because I save money there with the free shipping (on $15 orders) and in the long run for sure with all their perks.
Haven't heard of that one, thanks for the info I'll check it out. I do have thriftbooks results listed on the site as well.
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#47I've compared a bunch of book price comparison sites, and AddAll has been consistently the best or second best.
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#48Needs a toggle to filter out Amazon owned companies.
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#49Needs a toggle to filter out Amazon owned companies.
Very high on my priority list, will have this done before the end of the week.
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#50This functionality makes a lot more sense as an extension; it saves us the hassle of visiting/bookmarking a new site. It also saves you the hassle of building good search functionality, which is quite tricky for books if you are using titles and not ISBNs.
We put together an open-source version for this a while back, but it's been gathering dust ever since. https://github.com/OpsopiDev/extpricext
Anyone with javascript experience should be able to fork this and add niche sites they like with little work.