internetarchive/openlibrary — Issue #85: Make /borrow page "better"
Author: george08
Created: 2011-11-28 20:07:41+00:00
State: open

As discussed in this morning's Books meeting, we need to the openlibrary.org/borrow page to be improved.

If the user is in-library, the borrow carousel should also include in-library titles. I'm fairly sure the carousel is ordered by publish date, but that needs confirmation.

The carousel should exclude editions that also have a public domain edition available for that work.

We should consider shifting the default sort for all subject pages (or possible only in_library & lending_library) to be Most Recent Publish Date and eBooks only. (Currently, it's sorted by # of editions per work, and all works, eBook available, or not).

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There is related work going on to improve the in-library experience: turn on whole states, improve the messaging in the top strip if you are in-state, make a new UI for turning on whole states (and possibly countries), and creating a new page on Open Library that describes how to borrow a book, aimed directly at patrons.