i have now “tagged” over 300 books in my bibliogoddess library. after the first 200 books, which i added for free, i gave in to the madness and upgraded to a LibraryThing lifetime unlimited account!
a couple of comments on the search feature:
:: the book search does not return results for words of less than 4 letters. while this prevents searches for stop words like “the” it also does not allow searches for legitimate words (e.g. “tea” yields no results — i have 4 books with “tea” in the title).
:: the book search and tag search only do exact match searches — this means that if someone is checking my catalogue for a book they think is titled or tagged as artist, but is actually listed as artists, the book will not be found. entering art will only return art, not artist and artists.
despite these search quirks — quirks because i want people to be able to find the book if i have it — i am happy having my library searchable and browseable online. i have even added a borrowed tag so i know what is checked out, and to whom!
November 21st, 2005 at 8:02 am
(Hangs head in shame.) Yes, I know. The search is bad. I need to revisit it and make it better. It’s on my list…