tfonteyn / NeverTooManyBooks

A book collection app for Android
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[Whishlist] Change Amazon URL to a local one #67

Closed coastgnu closed 2 months ago

coastgnu commented 2 months ago

E.g.:

Adding a book via <+> - 'Search for Title' - name: 'Duval Noah Harari', title: 'Sapiens' gives a, let me call it, suboptimal answer.

Choosing 'Amazon Menu…' goes to amazon.go.uk. The result also is suboptimal. See: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AYuval+Noah+Harari

See also [1]

Changing the URL to amazon.de the answer is optimal. All three books show up! https://www.amazon.de/s?k=yuval+noah+harari+%2Csapiens%3A&crid=1BK94YOW3K59F&sprefix=yuval+noah+harari+sapiens+%2Caps%2C222&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

By changing the amazon URL from co.uk to de aside the name also the title appears in the search string!

So it would be great to configure an additional or at least different Amazon URL. An option to search for name and title by hand (co.uk) seems to be no solution, see [1]

@Mention: A search at thalia.de for name and title brings an optimal result. Another argument to enable a search via thalia.de . See [Feature request] Add thalia.de as websource #62

[1] changing the search string as in the DE URL to https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=yuval+noah+harari%2C+sapiens%3A&crid=2NTUE0LSGYL4Q&sprefix=yuval+noah+harari+sapiens+%2Caps%2C154&ref=nb_sb_noss_2 shows the same result

tfonteyn commented 2 months ago

Please check the docs

First time users, second paragraph.

coastgnu commented 2 months ago

Pardon for the noise

RTFM, I always tell my trainees …

Me, covers under a stone Don't know the dutch saying, but it's the same in our Frisian, DE_nds (german: sich unter einem Stein verstecken. Insekten verstecken sich unter Steinen .)

tfonteyn commented 2 months ago

hehe - I've done this myself all to often.

RTFM: Read the FINE manual ;-)

(if the developer at least wrote one.... oopsie... work-in-progress as they say)