lirazel | (no subject)

Goodreads' search function is bad and I do not approve. It seems to return the most popular books related to what you type in, not the ones who are most relevant to the words you've actually typed? For instance, I was searching for Roman Women: Everyday Life in Hadrian's Britain. I typed in Roman Women. The returned results had a couple of books that were actually about Roman women, but also included Tess of the D'Urbervilles and One Thousand White Women. The title I was looking for did not appear at all until I started typing in the subtitle. WHY????? The fact that I always have to remember the subtitles or else it's impossible to find books on this site drives me batty.

Another example: Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country is like the fifteenth result, behind, obviously, some books also called Ghostland but also behind books in a series called Ghostland Worlds, A Babe in Ghostland, etc.

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I've been thinking about joining Goodreads again, to motivate myself to read more this year, but the bad search function is discouraging. Maybe I'll rejoin Librarything, which feels more library-ish ;) or Inventaire, which is open source and looks pretty cool!

I actually really like it, but the fact that Amazon owns it is really frustrating and the source of all the bad things about it.

Yep, the amazon connection isn't to my liking either. I'm going to look for an alternative!