Re: Conlang books collection on Amazon

On Feb 17, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Sai Emrys wrote:

> On Feb 17, 2008 12:27 PM, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>
> wrote:
>> I'm having trouble searching by tags on Amazon... how is it done?
>
> Their UI for it isn't very good, unfortunately.
>
> Click the link on the schwag page; at the top, you should see that the
> search bar now searches for "Products tagged with:".
>
> You could also just URL-hack; see what the LCS link gives you and
> modify it as appropriate.
>
> Another thing is if you look through the page and find the tags
> section (it's ~2/3 down), you can probably click any of the existing
> tags on a book to see other things tagged by that.
>
> I've tagged all the books that were in the previous list as
> 'conlangs', but I suspect that it hasn't entirely gone through (or
> perhaps is out of sync?), since I haven't seen 'em all consistently in
> the tags list. Perhaps it just takes time to really take effect.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> - Sai
Ah, thanks. So I guess there isn't a way to specify an arbitrary tag,
apart from pages like the schwag page that link to tags or using URL
hacking.

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