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Coming soon – mobile search

Bergo — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:33:04 +0000

So, your in a book store and you see a book, but you think you can get a better price .. what do you do?

Well, you can try out the new neoscholar mobile device search neoscholar.com/mobile/

It’s a new product we’re testing. Ben and I both have an Iphone, so I want to be able to search book prices when we are in a book store.

Point your mobile web browser to neoscholar.com/mobile/ and give it a go.

What do you think?

We still need to tweak this a little bit, but leave us a comment here if you like it, want a change or think things could be better.

How to buy books online

Bergo — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:24:54 +0000

Buying books online is pretty easy.

There are a few things to remember:

Find/find the book you want (title, author or ISBN)
If the price seems ok with shipping costs, purchase it (you may need an account)
Wait for the book to arrive in the mail

Finding the book you want

Often searching by Title or Author is a great way to find the book you are after.

However, if you know the ISBN (International Standard Book Number), this will help you find the exact book you want.

These usually look like 0307353133 or 0-307-353-133

Often textbooks for university or school courses will list the ISBN.

Prices of books

NeoScholar book search automatically calculates the shipping cost to your country through using advanced location technology.

This takes the hassle out of finding shipping costs and adding them to book prices.

Creating an Account

When you go to check out and buy a book, you will need to create an account. Don’t worry! This process is usually quick and will save you money if the book price is right.

Most online books stores require you to have an account before you purchase. This way, they can store you shipping address and contact details for future purchases.

The book stores we search here such as Amazon.com, Alibris and Abebooks all require you to create an account. It’s no big deal.

Just do it and you can enjoy.

Got any questions or comments? Just let us know.

Finding all books in a page

Bergo — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:41:24 +0000

Ever wanted to find all the books in a page?

Perhaps there are a list of ISBNs with no links? This is often the case with some academic works.

So I’ve built the “Nescholar – Books in Page” tool

This link below can be installed or added to your favourites.

NeoScholar – Books in Page

For Firefox – Drag the link to your toolbar

For IE – Right Click the link – add to favourites

How do you use it?

When your on a page you want to scan just click the link from your favourites or tool bar. It’s that simple. Hopefully we’ll know whats on that page.

500 years of Womens potraits

Bergo — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:36:47 +0000

Modern tools, such as YouTube, allow many to express their ideas and observations.

Here we have a brilliant video demonstrating the changes and styles in female portraits over the last 500 years.

Women in Art ( YouTube )

( Found this via – Ook Blog )

What is NeoScholar?

Bergo — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:18:17 +0000

This is part dream, a tool and a work in progress.

I like buying and reading books. NeoScholar is a tool I built to price compare between Alibris, Abebooks and Amazon.

Originally, this was a side project on a somewhat Cyberpunk, but more technology impact on society, blog Brooders.net

So, I have many plans for NeoScholar .. I want to build tools that a NeoScholar of todays world would need that aren’t there yet.

But for the moment, if you need to look for books then NeoScholar can help.