It Appears Searching Your Saved Library With Google Books Is Back Online, Other Updates Go Live
That was quick!
It was just a couple of days ago when we posted (via LISNews) that users of Google Books were no longer able to keyword search only the books they've saved (My Library).
We contacted Google and they got back to us quickly. They told us that when changes were made to Google Books about a month ago, an option to search just your own library was removed. However, the search feature would be returning in the "coming weeks." Unfortunately, we have no idea what Google Inc. means by those words.
So, this morning when we got word of an Inside Google Book Search post about a couple of changes to GB we thought one of them might be Google bringing back the My Library search capability and although it's NOT mentioned in the blog post, it appears the the My Library Search option IS BACK!
To access the search box, go to your own My Library page (of course you'll need to be logged in) and look for the search box in the left column near the top. You can now search your entire library at one time or search a specific bookshelf that you've created and saved. Of course, you can change the collection of a bookshelf at any time or create a new one.
So, what else is new today?
Brandon Badger from Google mentions:
1) Updated Home Page
Ability to scroll through books and magazines cover images.
2) Integration of My Library on Home Page. You Can Make Bookshelves Either Public or Private.
From the Blog Post:
Previously, all books in your My Library were part of a single collection, and you could tag books with labels to organize. Now, instead of tagging a book with a label, you can add it to one or more bookshelves. As part of this transition to bookshelves, we're migrating all the previously created labels to the new bookshelf system. For example, if you had tagged a book with a label called "favorite travel books," then you'll now see a custom bookshelf called "favorite travel books" that contains the same book.
That's it. Again, the big news, you can now keyword search My Library and Individual bookshelves.
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