I think that's a great idea even though I primarily use the site for research purposes. It should increase use of the collection as well.
On Saturday, November 2, 2013, jessamyn c. west wrote: > There's been some discussion at the Archive of ways to make Open > Library a bit more usable to folks who want to use it for book reading > and borrowing. One of the ideas was to make the site search default to > ebooks instead of records (i.e. having the ebooks box checked by > default which is not how it is currently) so that the results people > return with a default search will be things they can access > immediately with the idea that a lot of the people coming to OL are > looking for books to read, not just library records. > > I offered to toss a note up to this list to gather feedback for > people. What do people think about this as a possibility? > > _____________ > Jessamyn West > volunteer support, Open Library > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org <javascript:;> > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org <javascript:;> > -- Tod Robbins Digital Asset Manager, MLIS todrobbins.com | @todrobbins <http://www.twitter.com/#!/todrobbins>
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