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I frequently use the Tisch Library so I'm often faced with selecting one book out of dozens on any given topic. I've found the customer reviews on Amazon very useful. Rather than opening two different browser windows (one for the library catalog and one for Amazon) what I really want is to combine the information into a single page. All it took was a Firefox Extension:
My Firefox extension is built on Chickfoot (which is sort of like Greasemonkey). The extension runs whenever you go to a library catalog page. It pulls the ISBN off the page and does an Amazon search for the ISBN on another tab. Then it grabs the book, average customer review score and the editorial reviews and adds them to the library catalog page.
The code works well but only for books that have an ISBN number (in use since the early 1970s). I'm having some problems packing the code as an installable extension. Once that is solved, I'll post the xpi file.
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