Hi all! As Amanda mentioned previously, I've been developing a script to automatically link book reviews to Amazon, so that you can easily buy a book you find interesting. You may have seen me past in a number of manual links over the last while. The auto-linking script is now complete, so I should be able to update these more quickly, and with a consistent style. A few things for you to know:
1) In order for the script to properly link you, please make sure that your title is in one of the two following formats:
The Greatest Book Ever by Amanda Gignac
or
The Greatest Book Ever - Amanda Gignac
If you don't follow this format, it's fine, there will just not be a link to Amazon on that particular review.
2) Spelling in title and author are, of course, of penultimate importance
3) If a book has more than one edition out, any version of it may show up in the Amazon link. If one shows up that seems odd - say, an audio-book, or a collector's edition, or something - feel free to let me know, and point out a better one, and I'll update it by hand. As a general rule, it should choose a reasonable edition, but if not, my apologies.
Thanks again, everybody, for your patience. Hopefully this will be a fun little addition to the blog!
Jason Gignac
*Note from Amanda - if you put italics tags in your title, the automatic script running here will strip them out. This is a Google/Blogger program bug that Jason can't work around, at least at this time. He's going to see if anyone else has found a way to work around this, but at this point, the italics will be stripped out. You're more than welcome to re-add them after the advertisement shows up on your post. They'll stick after you re-add them. Hopefully we'll find a fix for this. If the whole thing becomes too cumbersome, we'll just say nevermind and take the ads off altogether. Sorry for the trouble.
1) In order for the script to properly link you, please make sure that your title is in one of the two following formats:
The Greatest Book Ever by Amanda Gignac
or
The Greatest Book Ever - Amanda Gignac
If you don't follow this format, it's fine, there will just not be a link to Amazon on that particular review.
2) Spelling in title and author are, of course, of penultimate importance
3) If a book has more than one edition out, any version of it may show up in the Amazon link. If one shows up that seems odd - say, an audio-book, or a collector's edition, or something - feel free to let me know, and point out a better one, and I'll update it by hand. As a general rule, it should choose a reasonable edition, but if not, my apologies.
Thanks again, everybody, for your patience. Hopefully this will be a fun little addition to the blog!
Jason Gignac
*Note from Amanda - if you put italics tags in your title, the automatic script running here will strip them out. This is a Google/Blogger program bug that Jason can't work around, at least at this time. He's going to see if anyone else has found a way to work around this, but at this point, the italics will be stripped out. You're more than welcome to re-add them after the advertisement shows up on your post. They'll stick after you re-add them. Hopefully we'll find a fix for this. If the whole thing becomes too cumbersome, we'll just say nevermind and take the ads off altogether. Sorry for the trouble.
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