Glue Amazon to your library

Hey: If you're already using one of my Greasemonkey scripts to embed links to the Pittsburgh, Rochester, NY, or Gainesville, FL public library catalogs into Amazon book listings, you may have noticed that they've stopped working. This was due to a change in Amazon's book pages, but I've fixed the problem and updated the scripts. You can just install an updated script to make it all better.

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, these are scripts that insert status information (available, checked out, not found, etc.) for your local library into the book pages on Amazon. The status line links directly to that book (if available) in the library catalog. To use these, you must be a Firefox user, and you must first install the Greasemonkey extension. Here are step-by-step instructions (with pretty pictures!).

The Amazon library linkies weren't my brilliant idea; I just updated someone else's script to work with these libraries. The original idea was Jon Udell's, and it spread all over, so there's probably a regional linky script for your library, wherever you live (although it may not be updated yet for the latest change to Amazon's pages). If not, try BookBurro.

I love having the constant reminder on Amazon that I can read that book for free, and I also prefer to use Amazon to search and browse for library books instead of the outdated catalog system. It's worth having to deal with the aggravation when Amazon tweaks their pages around.

If you run into any problems with these, please let me know.