It's a bummer when a book search has no results ๐ง
Thanks to our 2024 Fellow Meredith W: search now falls back to look for text matches inside books! ๐
Sep 18, 2024 ยท 1:44 PM UTC
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Why did we spend time on a "search inside" fallback?
Throughout 2023 we conducted design research to better understand learners & educators who rely on @openlibrary.
Many told us they didn't know the search mode could be changed to text mode.
blog.openlibrary.org/2024/06โฆ
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In the month since we've launched this change, more than 40,000 patrons who *would* have hit dead ends have instead been shown fallbacks.
Thank you Meredith and the @openlibrary community for helping improve the lives of thousands of book lovers!
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