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sgf8 said:
Kahalachan - I just saw your Cthulhu book, my kids are always talking about this character and then they wiggle their fingers under their mouth to look like tentacles. We are a strange household, I've never read this book but maybe I should?


Susan
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Yeah Lovecraft is a master of horror. You should.

I noticed Cthulhu seems to be more of a meme now than before. Not sure what revived the public awareness of Lovecraft but he's good.
 
how frustrating, I'm trying to review the books and I can't search for most of them. If anyone has time please tell me what I'm doing wrong.

some books pop right up others will not be found.

For example the book "anne boleyn" cannot be searched for, but if I look under the English History label and search for it manually there it is. While looking at the book I tried again to search for it but it pulled up a whole bunch of books besides the one I wanted. I've tried with "quotes" around the phrase and without. tried with only the author, Anthony and without. tired with all kind of combinations.

these can't be searched for...
"Out of the silent planet" C.S. Lewis
Foundation by Asimov
"which way to die?" Queen
Mauve by Garfield
"they turned to stone"

Pops right up....
Quantum Leaps in the wrong direction

http://www.google.com/books?as_list=BDa0kCV8Qrcmk-OW8yKB9GhS9wZZV6R-3AQmr-E8e-eMDD7O2TQ

This link seems long.
 
sgf8 said:
how frustrating, I'm trying to review the books and I can't search for most of them. If anyone has time please tell me what I'm doing wrong.
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Whoa--773 books? (In fact I'm sure it changed to 774 while I was browsing!) I'm impressed :)

Susan, I get the same issue trying to search for Anne Boleyn or Evelyn Anthony in your library. No idea why, although I note that it only seems to appear in Google's database as a placeholder. And maybe the database is simply not well built yet. (Google has a habit of releasing all their cool--and free--applications in beta form, as indeed books.google is).

I searched for "Anne Boleyn" on amazon too and could only turn up re-sell copies, although there are a few of those. Is it a rarity?
 
Thanks. Thanks a lot.

Now I have to search the house and bug certain people to get the books I have loaned out back.

And then I have to figure out what to do with books like Otto's German Grammar and Vocabulary. Or a collection of British Writers thing.

And now my room has all these books lying around...
 
Susan: I typed in Boelyn and found two pages of books, some that just used the word Boelyn somewhere in the book. I tried 'foundation asimov' and just 'foundation' and while many of the books pulled up, even ones that review or referred to Asimov's book, just the original Foundation did not.

I suspect that Google is still in the process of indexing everything and that you happened to find two books that are not done or have errors. In books that have been fully scanned, you can search for words or phrases.

I can't wait until I get unpacked and get my libraby put in.
 
Madalch - so do you own any books that don't have "heraldry" in the title? <<grin>>

I suppose you just haven't gotten to that shelf yet, right?

Susan
 
This has been bizarre. Last night the site said I had 32 Asimov books that I had labeled as such. When I clicked on them it gave me 4 pages to look through, and other times it gave me 7 pages to look through (and said I had 67 books listed under Asimov) When I counted the 32 books I came up with 28 books. This morning it shows all 32.


I hope that everything is caught up by now.

Still need to finish reviewing everything tonight.

Susan
 
sgf8 said:
This has been bizarre. Last night the site said I had 32 Asimov books that I had labeled as such. When I clicked on them it gave me 4 pages to look through, and other times it gave me 7 pages to look through (and said I had 67 books listed under Asimov) When I counted the 32 books I came up with 28 books. This morning it shows all 32.


I hope that everything is caught up by now.

Still need to finish reviewing everything tonight.

Susan
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I think it depends on what your search is. If you type 'asimov' under 'search my library' it is going to feed back every book in your library that has the word in it (if the book has been scanned into Google's database). So, when a character in a Niven book refers to Asimov by name, that would turn up as well.

If you just search on your own labels, then it would be the ones you tagged with Asimov.

I have only entered one Asimov book (so far :D ) in my own library. when I searched, I got two pages of books back. Four of them were Michael Shermer's books, who apparently has referred to Asimov either by quoting him, or referring to the Three Laws of Robotics; two Niven books, one which has a 'previously published as a short story in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine; Martin Gardner quoting Asimov in his book "Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?"; three Carl Sagan books; and a Stephen King novel! And, except for the last one, which shows 'content is restricted', they all even tell what page(s) the reference appears on.

I used "Niven" as a tag on any books he authored. When I search on that, it returns all the books I tagged that way, and that same King book. (I don't remember the book well, but King must have had his characters talking about science fiction authors, or discussed them in his intro. ???)


It has some bugs, but it is pretty cool.

ETA: I was playing around some, and found out that any book that has 'no preview available' won't show up on my searches entered into the title bar. When I typed in "Provence" or "toujours" into the search box, the book Toujours Provence doesn't show up in the returned list, although other books mentioning those words do. That particular book shows 'no preview', which I assume means it hasn't been scanned into Google yet. BUT when I click the tag "France' on my personal tag list, on the left side of the page, it does find it.
 
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Well it is happening in your Geek Goddesses library as well. I found a book that had no preview "how long is my valley" and then went to "my library" typed in "long" and "valley" and it pulled up a bunch of books, but not the one I wanted.

So I'm not sure I understand where they are getting these books from. If they don't have a preview available then.....?

I just want to use this as a database site to search my own books and look at others. I guess what they designed it for is to search inside books?

I wrote to them and here is my response...

Thanks for your message. Our engineering team is currently working to
improve the "My Library" feature, and we appreciate your bringing this to
our attention. I will shortly pass this information along to the rest of
our team for review.

If you have any additional questions or comments at this time, please
don't hesitate to let us know. Thank you for your patience as we continue
to improve our services.
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GG I tried your search for "Toujours Provence" in your library and also in your "france" label and it would not pull up your book in either place. I was trying this with my Asimov books, it will not pull them up in "my library" or in under the label "Asimov". I have to search one by one to find the book I am looking for.

Susan
 
Google said that they didn't want me to "hesitate giving them feedback" on their library site, so I gave them a bit of an earful tonight. I'm sure I'll just get a dear susan letter back, but I feel like I am trying to help.

The loading of the books was frustrating at times also, I mentioned that to them also, but didn't go into detail.

Right now I just want to be able to search for books that I know I have in my library.

Susan
 
Lion - I love Oliver Sacks!

But you can't tell it from my library. I think I checked out his books from the library or something. Humm something to add to my wish lists

Susan
 
What what I read, Google's main project is to scan tens of thousands of books into their database, and make them searchable. Some authors or other holders of copyrights are objecting, so you have the issue with some books having only a few pages available, or none. The personal library subset of this is, in my humble and uninformed opinion, probably something that has not been fully developed at this time, wasn't their main goal, and isn't going to get resources devoted to the primary goal of the database.


If you don't mind spending $40 (approx), check out the Collectorz.com site - the software is more geared towards being a personal database for your collection.
 
Thanks for sharing your continued feedback regarding the "My Library"
feature. I've passed along your message to the rest of my team for review.

As Google Book Search is still a young program, new features are under
consideration, and your feedback is very helpful. We appreciate your
patience as we work to resolve all outstanding issues with this beta
program.

Sincerely,
Greg
The Google Book Search Team
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This seems to confirm what Naomi is telling us.

Susan
 
sgf8 said:
This seems to confirm what Naomi is telling us.

Susan
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Naomi is . . . ?

(Yes it confirms what I thought too without asking them. I would further suspect that it is not their top priority to fix the bugs, but to progress their greater objective of having critical mass of people satisfied with their book search to be using it, since they make their money with ad placement and the like)

Ron_Tomkins said:
Ohh.. such a kinky invitation.
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Everyone's seen yours, you can put them away again thanks ;)
 
I added some more to my library; just about everything I'm not ashamed to admit I own is in there :). I even added my university textbooks (chemistry) because I still have them.

Francesca R's Library again

One point of note is that I haven't bothered to look for the exact edition I have with these, or with the travel guides which tend to get updated every year. I'm not sure if the database has an entry for each revision.
 
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