New Amazon bookmarklet
I've made an Amazon bookmarket, a little bookmark you put on your toolbar. When you're on Amazon and want to add a book to your library, click on the bookmarklet and it will add it to your library. Get the Amazon bookmarklet out the extras page.
posted by Tim at 6:37 AM
17 Comments:
Ilike it! For some books it seems easier to find them directly via Amazon's search rather than via LibraryThing. It's also useful to be able to work directly in Amazon.co.uk (and get the UK edition) rather than have to select it when I do a LibraryThing search, and the tag addition pop-up window works well.
I like this, but it's not working for me (using Firefox 1.0.6) - I've tried both Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com, on both sites it gives me a "you are not logged in to library thing" message - but as soon as I click on anything else on Library Thing I am logged in.
I have also tried with a separate Library Thing tab open and it still doesn't work.
Well that makes no sense. The bookmarket has nothing to do with cookies, and that's what is wrong—LT is detecting that you don't have a username cookie. The cookie stays forever (a year, I think), so it has nothing to do with being current. Firefox just isn't sending me the cookie when it ought. Odd.
I presume you're on Windows. Firefox Mac works very well. Anyone else have this problem?
I am on Firefox 1.0.6 and have tried the bookmarklet on Windows and Linux and it works.
However I am usually in libraything in a separate tab.
I definitely agree with the first anonymous comment.
maybe it's zonealarm or the MS anti spyware thingy I run then. I will test on my other pc later & let you know what happens.
Tested it using Firefox 1.06 under Windows XP SP2 and it works for me whether LT is open or not. If you do use it and LT is not open, it will open LT afterwards but that is fine. Let me add to anon's first comment and say that this is a really excellent addition. Many thanks.
In the interests of full and up front disclosure, you should add a line to the faq stating that LibraryThing adds its Amazon affiliate tag if one purchases a book by clicking on a link from someone's library.
Otherwise, nice site.
Wow, that's great! What's even better is the fact I can now use my 'books you own' list to add entries :) Thank you!
Excellent feature! I just went through a few years of orders from amazon.com (back to 1999) and added all the books I bought very easily.
FYI - I used Foxfire 1.0.6 and it worked just dandy for me.
Very interesting. I like the idea, and on mine, it's working fine. (Windows/Firefox 1.0.6) I'd rather it didn't send me off to LibraryThing every time, but I know how to use the "back" link, lol. Very nice addition. Great solution to the wishlist transferring and convenient for browsing. I don't mind that it links through an associate's ID... you want to make some money off LibraryThing, we want it to stick around... if you're making some money off it, then it will stick around, and we're all happy, :)
I'm glad he's making money - he just needs to be up front about it.
On making money: I need to look into whether Amazon will let me do that. At the moment it's not at the top of my to-do list, and Amazon is still sitting on my request for a waiver of the refresh-ever-day rule. If anyone can point me to a discussion of the issue, or an answer, I'd be grateful.
Speaking of discussion, how about a threaded discussion forum? Commenting on your blog is so 2004 :)
Works fine for me.
The graphical format was cool while it was there. Will it be returning at some point?
You weren't supposed to see that...
Actually, anyone who wants, go ahead and test out this (http://www.librarything.com/catalog2.php). Tell me if the title is properly centered on the book, and if clicking the book gives you options that overlap. it works nicely on all the browsers accessible to me, but I don't have WIN IE6 at present.
Everything's working great for me. I just tried the bookmarklet and it worked with amazon.jp so I'm really happy. I can start cataloguing my Japanese books now!
This worked nicely for me - I was able to go through all my old amazon orders and add the books to my library.
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