I occasionally leave a comment on my friend (from us/them) Ed’s blog and I’ve linked him over here on various topics, including the ever popular search term “discardia”. He has linked to my posts about my bookshelves by color or my library. I often spurl things I’ve found by checking out Ed’s delicious links. Ed is part of my blog community and part of my books community. Because of this, I have an awesome new tool that has improved my life. I don’t think I can even begin to explain how this one tiny thing has made a difference. It hasn’t solved the energy crisis, brought about world peace or provided me with winning lottery numbers (nobody wins those things anyway) but it has made me smile. A lot. And given TW more control over her reading list and taken full responsibility off of me.
Christina found me through Ed. Christina used to live in Gainesville, though she doesn’t live here now. She used to work at the Alachua County Library (which is my library, the one I love and often blog about). She wrote a script that she wanted me to try. I tried it. It didn’t work quite right. The next day, she had me try it again. It worked. Oh my how it works!
If I look at a book on Amazon with this nifty little Amazon Gainesville Library Greasemonkey script installed text will appear on the Amazon page, underneath the title of the book, that tells whether it is available at my library. If it is, I can click the link right there on the page and it will let me reserve it immediately. No clicking back and forth. No searches on the library website (which can occasionally, ok often, be slow). No moving back to Amazon to save the title on my wishlist when I discover my library doesn’t have it.
And, what’s really cool is that TW has the script and can reserve her own books! We’re not used to this system yet and every now and then TW sends me an email or an AIM asking me to reserve a book. That makes us laugh.
Christina is cool. Ed is cool. My library is cool.
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