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Re: Browse Amazon, Randomly

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Post by zipop » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 9:48 PM UTC

nathanb wrote: post #15

Fair warning: the first title that came up for me was NSFW.

That would have been good to know before I started clicking. DANG!

Re: Browse Amazon, Randomly

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Post by jaydub » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 9:56 PM UTC

I like it, can you add random browsing within a category (e.g. I want to browse random humor books)

Re: Browse Amazon, Randomly

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Post by jaydub » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 9:57 PM UTC

I like it, can you add random browsing within a category (e.g. I want to browse random humor books)

Re: Browse Amazon, Randomly

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 10:03 PM UTC

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Re: Browse Amazon, Randomly

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Post by whatusername » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 10:21 PM UTC

bertomartin wrote: post #3

duckduckgo? Anyways, I actually found this useful. What might be a good addition is current ratings (if Amazon expose such information). Another thing, put the "back" button next to the "next" button; improves usability

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck,_duck,_goose

Re: Browse Amazon, Randomly

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 10:56 PM UTC

hmason wrote: post #14

marquis wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's probably a play on duckduckgo.

It's a play on "duck duck goose", the children's game. The similarity to duckduckgo was unintentional, but I like it. I actually wanted to call it "bookroulette", but all permutations of that domain were taken.

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Re: Browse Amazon, Randomly

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Post by hmason » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 11:06 PM UTC

gourneau wrote: post #20

I really love this! I opened it and just jam on the next key (n). Use this little snippet to set it to auto-next mode, for a great screensaver. Edit - here is the screensaver https://github.com/gourneau/WebSaver setInterval(function(){$("#book_next").click()}, 500) Watching all of books fly by is wondrous to me because it feels like it is painting some weird version of conscious reality. Hilary could you please add t…

Thanks. I just deployed this update. Have fun!

Re: Browse Amazon, Randomly

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Post by strangestchild » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 12:54 AM UTC

This is really great - love the idea. Just in case you hadn't spotted, I think there's a punctuation bug whereby characters are sometimes omitted, although it doesn't happen all the time. Not a big deal though.

Example:

Correctly punctuated original: http://tinyurl.com/b6sbozh

Bookbookgoose ignores the apostrophes: http://imgur.com/4U9Ow

[EDIT: Dropbox link was broken - using imgur instead]

Re: Browse Amazon, Randomly

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Post by ubojan » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 11:47 PM UTC

great idea, I really like this site! I found a little glitch, it happens when image is too high. Here is a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/IzhRF.jpg

Re: Browse Amazon, Randomly

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Post by bhoomit » Fri, Jan 18, 2013, 7:05 AM UTC

hmason wrote: post #27

gourneau wrote: post #20

I really love this! I opened it and just jam on the next key (n). Use this little snippet to set it to auto-next mode, for a great screensaver. Edit - here is the screensaver https://github.com/gourneau/WebSaver setInterval(function(){$("#book_next").click()}, 500) Watching all of books fly by is wondrous to me because it feels like it is painting some weird version of conscious reality. Hilary could you please add t…

Thanks. I just deployed this update. Have fun!

Hey, there seems to be a bug for slow internet connections, it shows the same image for the next books when the next book image is not loaded.