Comments on: Stanza 1.6 is out—with an embedded browser and ‘curl’ page transitions http://www.teleread.org/2008/11/27/stanza-16-is-out-with-an-embedded-browser-and-curl-page-transitions/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:38:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Hadrien http://www.teleread.org/2008/11/27/stanza-16-is-out-with-an-embedded-browser-and-curl-page-transitions/comment-page-1/#comment-971421 Hadrien Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:47:41 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/11/27/stanza-16-is-out-with-an-embedded-browser-and-curl-page-transitions/#comment-971421 Yeah Matthew I agree: author's name, genre and series are also a pretty good ways to avoid the linear browsing on PG. We've added a link to find the rest of the books available for the author too in the catalog, and I'll probably add the possibility to see where a book is listed (we have a system of lists, rather than book series on Feedbooks). Everything happen at book store level David, in our case we use downloads to identify similar books. If many users download the same books, we identify them as similar over time. Aside from the catalog itself, we also provide this information in our books: click on a link inside a book and it'll download the book (works on any connected device: iPhone, Kindle, Smartphone etc...). We'd like to keep moving in that direction, but for the moment Stanza's authentication features are still too limited: we use it strictly for feeds/newspapers subscriptions. Our API is already capable of logging downloads and providing customized recommendations: I hope that we'll be able to enable this as soon as possible in Stanza. Yeah Matthew I agree: author’s name, genre and series are also a pretty good ways to avoid the linear browsing on PG.

We’ve added a link to find the rest of the books available for the author too in the catalog, and I’ll probably add the possibility to see where a book is listed (we have a system of lists, rather than book series on Feedbooks).

Everything happen at book store level David, in our case we use downloads to identify similar books. If many users download the same books, we identify them as similar over time.
Aside from the catalog itself, we also provide this information in our books: click on a link inside a book and it’ll download the book (works on any connected device: iPhone, Kindle, Smartphone etc…).

We’d like to keep moving in that direction, but for the moment Stanza’s authentication features are still too limited: we use it strictly for feeds/newspapers subscriptions. Our API is already capable of logging downloads and providing customized recommendations: I hope that we’ll be able to enable this as soon as possible in Stanza.

]]> By: Matthew McClintock http://www.teleread.org/2008/11/27/stanza-16-is-out-with-an-embedded-browser-and-curl-page-transitions/comment-page-1/#comment-971370 Matthew McClintock Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:25:11 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/11/27/stanza-16-is-out-with-an-embedded-browser-and-curl-page-transitions/#comment-971370 whoops :) ... I've focused on linking to additional work via the author's name, the genre, and via books in series -- but if I could figure out a way to programmatically determine similarities that would be even better. whoops :)

… I’ve focused on linking to additional work via the author’s name, the genre, and via books in series — but if I could figure out a way to programmatically determine similarities that would be even better.

]]> By: Matthew McClintock http://www.teleread.org/2008/11/27/stanza-16-is-out-with-an-embedded-browser-and-curl-page-transitions/comment-page-1/#comment-971366 Matthew McClintock Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:21:05 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/11/27/stanza-16-is-out-with-an-embedded-browser-and-curl-page-transitions/#comment-971366 Hi David, Thanks for pointing out Stanza's new feature -- it works with the barebones ePUB format available from the iPhone side of manybooks.net (I've got to do something about the multiple sites!): http://manybooks.net/m/ I agree with Hadrien -- browsing the great number of public domain titles is the biggest difficulty, and I like the "similar titles" idea they've implemented on Feedbooks. On manybooks.net I've focused on linking to additional work by Hi David,

Thanks for pointing out Stanza’s new feature — it works with the barebones ePUB format available from the iPhone side of manybooks.net (I’ve got to do something about the multiple sites!): http://manybooks.net/m/

I agree with Hadrien — browsing the great number of public domain titles is the biggest difficulty, and I like the “similar titles” idea they’ve implemented on Feedbooks. On manybooks.net I’ve focused on linking to additional work by

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.org/2008/11/27/stanza-16-is-out-with-an-embedded-browser-and-curl-page-transitions/comment-page-1/#comment-971247 David Rothman Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:57:27 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/11/27/stanza-16-is-out-with-an-embedded-browser-and-curl-page-transitions/#comment-971247 The "similar" feature is another good one, Hadrien, and I thank you for alerting us since I wasn't aware of this earlier. I notice it's available now as a standard piece of info from within Stanza. Of course I'd be curious about the methods used to pick the similar titles. Can you enlighten us? Does this happen at the bookstore level, as I suspect? And do methods vary? Totally agree with your interest in useful browsing. Meanwhile happy honorary Thanksgiving! David The “similar” feature is another good one, Hadrien, and I thank you for alerting us since I wasn’t aware of this earlier. I notice it’s available now as a standard piece of info from within Stanza. Of course I’d be curious about the methods used to pick the similar titles. Can you enlighten us? Does this happen at the bookstore level, as I suspect? And do methods vary? Totally agree with your interest in useful browsing. Meanwhile happy honorary Thanksgiving! David

]]> By: Hadrien http://www.teleread.org/2008/11/27/stanza-16-is-out-with-an-embedded-browser-and-curl-page-transitions/comment-page-1/#comment-971101 Hadrien Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:20:28 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/11/27/stanza-16-is-out-with-an-embedded-browser-and-curl-page-transitions/#comment-971101 Magic for Beginners is available directly through Feedbooks' online catalog: http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3187 All of our files have chapter divisions and table of contents. I would've focused on something different though for this news about Stanza 1.6 David: at Feedbooks we've been pushing for a better way to find similar books in Stanza for a while. Whenever you select a book, it is now possible to get similar books and other books by the same author (the links are right after the description). The main problem with public domain books isn't the lack of titles available: it's the lack of a right way to browse through them. Magic for Beginners is available directly through Feedbooks’ online catalog: http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3187
All of our files have chapter divisions and table of contents.

I would’ve focused on something different though for this news about Stanza 1.6 David: at Feedbooks we’ve been pushing for a better way to find similar books in Stanza for a while.
Whenever you select a book, it is now possible to get similar books and other books by the same author (the links are right after the description).
The main problem with public domain books isn’t the lack of titles available: it’s the lack of a right way to browse through them.

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