Comments on: Google Book Mashups

By: The Big List of Things I Like About LibraryThing at Deeplinking

The Big List of Things I Like About LibraryThing at Deeplinking — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:59:43 +0000

A year ago I rounded up a fairly big list of bookish social networks. I’ve since tried a number of them (as the list has grown to something like 40 bookish competitors) and was pretty hyped up about Google Book Search until their embeddable book clippings started breaking and I realized their full-text search only covers a small percentage of the books I’m interested in searching.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:10:34 +0000

I was only trying to appease you and other bloglines die-hards with the first fix, but that second one worked nicely. Thanks style queen.

By: Stumbling Upon Bookish Moral Outrage at Deeplinking

Stumbling Upon Bookish Moral Outrage at Deeplinking — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:45:49 +0000

But what this sentiment really illustrates is that books are still venerated cultural objects with a lot of power, and that’s what gives good book art its power. Artists like Dettmer excite people precisely because they allow them to see these sacred book objects in shocking new ways. They’re doing more to bring awareness to books than the self-proclaimed Book Protectors ever will. They’re giving old books new life (not unlike Google, another foe of some in the trade).

By: lauren

lauren — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:41:17 +0000

Uh-uh, them borders are still showing.

Your problem is that the border=”0″ attribute won’t override the border that’s coming in from your stylesheet (HTML 4.0 vs. CSS). Try style=”border:0px;” instead.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:24:59 +0000

Good point. Done.

By: lauren

lauren — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:38:04 +0000

Ahhh, I love it!

But I think you should the borders off these images. It looks better in bloglines sans border.