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FROM: Roger Carswell <[removed]@alltel.net>
REC'D: 2/6/03, 4:48 PM

Has anyone used www.whichbook.net? It's an intriguing readers' advisory
idea, but I'm not sure how well it really works.

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Roger Carswell
Southeast Kansas Library System/Iola Public Library
218 E. Madison
Iola, KS 66749
(620) 365-5136
[removed]@alltel.net

FROM: "Mandy McGee" <[removed]@oppl.org>
REC'D: 2/6/03, 5:09 PM

Whichbook.net just recently changed their entire interface, and I haven't
really browsed it very much since the change. But last month when I was
using it I found it was an interesting concept, but I kept generating the
same titles through different desired combinations. I would be curious to
know just how many books are reviewed through the site. Plus, I believe the
service is out of England, so I found a lot of the titles to be lesser known
to me.

Mandy McGee
Oak Park Public Library
Oak Park, IL
[removed]@oppl.org

Roger Carswell wrote:

> Has anyone used www.whichbook.net? It's an intriguing readers' advisory
> idea, but I'm not sure how well it really works.
>
> **************************************************************
> Roger Carswell
> Southeast Kansas Library System/Iola Public Library
> 218 E. Madison
> Iola, KS 66749
> (620) 365-5136
> [removed]@alltel.net
>
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FROM: Anne Marquis <[removed]@epl.ca>
REC'D: 2/10/03, 12:06 PM

It used to be called Book Forager--originally created by Opening the Book,
which, I think, was part of the Branching Out project developed under the
auspices of the Society for Chief Librarians, in the UK. I hadn't looked at
the interface for a while either, but it still works more or less the same
as under its original format. Click on the qualities of the book you are
interested in duplicating and use the "slider" to indicate how much of the
quality (qualities) that you want, then it generates a list. Information on
the the project, the core of readers and the database can be found at
http://www.reader-development.com/openlibraries/page.asp?idno=1

Anne Marquis
Fiction Librarian
Stanley A. Milner Library
Edmonton Public Library
7 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Edmonton, AB Canada T5J 2V4
http://www.epl.ca

Phone: (780) 496-7032
Fax: (780) 496-7001

-----Original Message-----
From: Mandy McGee [[removed]@oppl.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 4:02 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Anyone use www.whichbook.net?

Whichbook.net just recently changed their entire interface, and I haven't
really browsed it very much since the change. But last month when I was
using it I found it was an interesting concept, but I kept generating the
same titles through different desired combinations. I would be curious to
know just how many books are reviewed through the site. Plus, I believe the
service is out of England, so I found a lot of the titles to be lesser known
to me.

Mandy McGee
Oak Park Public Library
Oak Park, IL
[removed]@oppl.org

Roger Carswell wrote:

> Has anyone used www.whichbook.net? It's an intriguing readers' advisory
> idea, but I'm not sure how well it really works.
>
> **************************************************************
> Roger Carswell
> Southeast Kansas Library System/Iola Public Library
> 218 E. Madison
> Iola, KS 66749
> (620) 365-5136
> [removed]@alltel.net
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://fictionl.webrary.org

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