BookBurro
November 30th, 2005
Book Burro is a Firefox plug-in that will magically appear on your screen (top left on the screenshot) when you are looking at a book record online (like Amazon, BN, etc) It will advise you of prices from other booksellers and whether local libraries have the book. Click on the library link and you will be sent to the catalog record. A lot like LibraryLookup but with a bit more flash and style. In fact it might be using a similar method of looking up books.
You can also change which libraries you want to search. (bottom right on screenshot). I tried the plug-in and it works great. What I don’t see is how I can add my library to the list. There is a Greasemonkey script available that may help. If anyone can figure out how I can add my home library, I’d be thrilled.
This tool is useful because I buy books as well as check them out of my library. Book Burro provides (theoretically) all of the information for me in a quick and easy method. I can choose what I want to do in one motion, saving me time in shopping around or if my library has it available. Nice.
