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Re: HN-Books

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Post by another_ali »

hi nice site, please consider having a table view that have the following columns: Book Title, Author, Publication Date (make the table sortable by any row)

And if I click the table row, it can expand to the long descriptions and cover shot you added to each book. What first at attracts me to a book is the title, author and how recent it is!

Re: HN-Books

#53

Post by alnayyir »

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #46
alnayyir wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The site was virtually unusable for me due to this, it really is critical.

It will be fixed very shortly. I appreciate the comments. These are some HTML5-ish buttons I borrowed from another site. I had a bit of trouble with the links, so I just added the onclick code. Never occurred to me the different usage pattern. EDIT: Ctrl-Click now working in dev. I should have it pushed up to production in the next few minutes. Sorry about the trouble. -- Done.

Thank you very much for taking notice. :)

I'm an inveterate multitasker and if my middle-click/vimium breaks or the links are otherwise odd (not to mention the noticeable lag the html5 elements were causing for google chrome OS X) it throws me way off my rhythm.

Re: HN-Books

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Post by jlees »

Nice start and a good reaction to the information overload of book recommendation threads :)

A few comments:

- Zooming on image covers seems pointless to me (is it just me?)

- I'd like to see some kind of indicator of usefulness/relevance of books (books 1 person recommended vs books that crop up in every single thread), whether you just open it up to upvoting and downvoting, pull in review data, or get more complex

- One step further, crowdsource book summaries - let a contributor submit 'cliff's notes' for a book rather than just a review.

Re: HN-Books

#56

Post by Kaizyn »

It should be noted that this is a great way for the site owner/creator to make commissions on each purchase through the provided links.

Re: HN-Books

#57

Post by mambodog »

Thanks for doing this. Just a point about the site itself: scrolling seems to lock up while items are loading (which it does for some time). Maybe you could make it less aggressive with the async loading of items (load a few, load more when I get to the bottom)?
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