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Amazon farts in usability's general direction
If you aren't aware, Amazon.com has a new(ish) feature where it searches the text of books in its collection as well as searching authors' names and titles. It seems like this should be a big advantage, but it ends up driving me crazy.
How often does one actually want to search on the text in a book? Couldn't they make that part of an advanced search? When I am looking to see if any new Christopher Brookmyre books have been published, I don't want to be bogged down in books in which he has been mentioned.
srah - Monday, 1 December 2003 - 11:42 AM
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1) I like this new (I don't know if it's really new, but I guess I haven't been here in a while) picture.
2) That is pretty stupid. Maybe they just need indexes. Or something. And I do hate their "Look Inside!"s because the only pages you can really look at are the title page, dedication and maybe a table of context.