Selecting Swap Sites to Search

Hi,

I love LibraryThing and use it for both books and I and books on my Amazon.com wishlist. Consequently, I use the swap column to find which of my wanted books are available via swapping. However, LibraryThing currently adds together the number of available copies of a book from all the integrated swaping sites.

My suggestion is that we be able to select which swapping sites we want to exclude. For instance, swapsimple.com and bookins.com require both points and cash (more than $1.59 for the minimal media postal rate) when I requeset a book so I'd rather not have their available books counted in my swap column figures.

I do most of my swapping on bookmooch.com, paperbackswap.com and titletrader.com so those are the sites I'd prefer to have book availability counted from.

Thanks,
Annette Thompson
annette@precious.org

Thanks for the idea—a good one. The reasoning now has more to do with how the data is stored than anything else. It would be database-intensive to add it under the current structure. But it's a good idea.

I'll think about it again when I improve the customization generally. I'm going to add the ability to customize the left side of that page (the stores you see), and that opens things up to customizing the right too.

Incidentally, BM and TT are the two largest on LibraryThing, so you shouldn't be lead astray too often when something shows up in the swap numbers. As for PBS, they don't appear willing to offer the feature—still held out to them and, as before, for free even though they're now trying to compete with LibraryThing directly over a rather dippy book tracker.

I'd also appreciate being able to select which swap sites to include, so that I could concentrate on those that include the UK in their exchanges - it's a bit frustrating to see a potential swap and then find it's only available in the USA.

Karin