And it was an easy thing, too. I looked through the Power Tools, and Book Burro caught my eye. If I bought more books from a greater variety of places, or if I had enough money to start collecting rare books, I'd be much more interested in that. The tech wary part of my brain is a little suspicious of anything that you actually download and attach to your browser, but this claims to be a part of Mozilla Firefox anyway, which is my browser of choice. Maybe if I ever get a FT position here at CML so that I can stop working at Barnes and Noble (where I get a nice employee discount), I'll look more into that. I also read the Tooling Around blog, and was frankly a little disappointed. Here's a brilliant place to establish a connection with the public, and we don't even get one post per month? It'd be a great place to outline the new browser for people, to really focus on things like the toolbar, and even feature some of the Premium Resources.
Just my 2cents,
-Brian
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Hi Brian,
I'm the author of Book Burro. If you have an questions about how it works you can email me - anotherjesse on gmail - also the "xpi" which is the file you click to download is just a ZIP file, so if you know JavaScript you can read the code and see what it does.
I hope if you end up buying more books online it helps you. If you want to disable affiliate links, it is a preference in the panel (tools -> book burro -> affiliate codes)
I buy too many books so it is a good thing I don't work at a book store. I probably wouldn't break even!
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