Manybooks has great RSS feeds
By Paul Biba
How to find what books to read? That’s always a problem. Well, the Manybooks site has an excellent aid to help solve this problem.
If you go to the site and, over on the right, click on RSS feeds, and then click on New Titles Sorted by Category, you will be taken to a page with 56 different categories of books. Each one of these links is an RSS feed for that category. Your reader, I use Bloglines, will pop up a feed whenever a new book is added to that category. It works like a charm.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I subscribe to Feedbooks’ RSS feed, which in the headline just tells you the titles and authors of newly uploaded books — you have to open the message to get the category. This could easily be fixed (more work for Hadrien …) to make that site even better.
manybooks.net is an incredible resource, especially when you realize that Matt McClintock runs it in his spare time and his server is (or was) a Mac Mini hidden away in a cupboard!
October 21st, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Manybooks has been down for a while now and I was wondering if it was down permanently or if there are technical issues that need to be worked out. Out of all the sites I’ve visited, I thought it was the most user friendly with a great variety of formats available.
I hope it’s just technical issues and not some horrible disaster that’s befallen the people who run it.