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Feedbooks provides many ways to browse through all of the content available.
The 5 basic browsing options are:
There's many different ways you can end up on one of these browsing options, the most common one should be through the main page or the tabs (UI Help).
Tabs for "Discover"
Using these 5 browsing features, you can already find quite a lot of useful information: for example, the most popular books or all of the "Gothic" works available for download.
But this "basic browsing" is nothing compared to what you can really do with the browsing system that's available here.
Using what we call filters, you can filter and re-order all of the content that's available and get exactly the right information.
There's 2 different kind of filters though:
The 5 basic browsing options are:
Books
Authors
Types
Recently Added
Top Downloads
There's many different ways you can end up on one of these browsing options, the most common one should be through the main page or the tabs (UI Help).
Tabs for "Discover"
Using these 5 browsing features, you can already find quite a lot of useful information: for example, the most popular books or all of the "Gothic" works available for download.
But this "basic browsing" is nothing compared to what you can really do with the browsing system that's available here.
Using what we call filters, you can filter and re-order all of the content that's available and get exactly the right information.
There's 2 different kind of filters though:
- General: For every book/author listing, these filters are meaningful
- Contextual: Very specific filtering options that we can't list, but that are available through links on a book/author
General filters
On every page used for browsing through the content, you'll notice an element named "Filters" (UI Help).
This element is usually hidden, if you're not browsing through a "contextual filter" or if you haven't clicked on it yet.
It'll remember your behaviour: open it, and it'll stay open as long as your session will last.
The "Filters" element for books
Some of these filters available are:
You'll notice that the current state of the filter is always highlighted and that you can easily switch to another state using the links next to it.
Using these filters, we can easily do some pretty advanced browsing already. We could for example look for books available in english written during the early modern era or authors whose last name begin with an M.
This element is usually hidden, if you're not browsing through a "contextual filter" or if you haven't clicked on it yet.
It'll remember your behaviour: open it, and it'll stay open as long as your session will last.
The "Filters" element for books
Some of these filters available are:
- Alphabetical filtering (available for Books/Authors/Types)
- Alphabetical sorting (available for Books/Authors/Types)
- Year sorting (available for Books)
- Period filtering (available for Books/Authors)
- Language filtering (available for Books)
You'll notice that the current state of the filter is always highlighted and that you can easily switch to another state using the links next to it.
Using these filters, we can easily do some pretty advanced browsing already. We could for example look for books available in english written during the early modern era or authors whose last name begin with an M.
Contextual filters
The main problem with these first kind of filters is that we simply can't list all of the way we could filter through this content.
Browsing through all of the books that are available on Feedbooks, I might end up finding a very nice book released in 1924 for example. Using those general filters, I can't really list all of the books that were released the same year.
Once on Tolstoy's page, how can I easily find all of the others russian authors available on Feedbooks ?
That's the reason why we have contextual filters.
Let's take a look at how we list books for example:
You'll notice that the language of the book is available between [] and that the year of the publication is available between ().
Clicking on the title of the book or the name of its author, will open the page for the book/author.
But if you click on [en] or on (1891) you'll use a contextual filter.
Using general filters, you could already filter the books and keep those available in english only. But if you've just found a book written in german, how could you list other german books without this language available in the general filters ?
You may be able to filter books using periods such as "Renaissance" or "Modern", but you can't find other books published in 1891 this way.
That's why contextual filters are available, they allow any one to easily filter content using advanced rules, without filling a form full of options or typing a very user-unfriendly string of characters.
Some of these contextual filters will show up next to general filters, some other are displayed under them and you can discard them using
.
Contextual filters are almost everywhere on the website: the index, on the page of an author or a book...
Browsing through all of the books that are available on Feedbooks, I might end up finding a very nice book released in 1924 for example. Using those general filters, I can't really list all of the books that were released the same year.
Once on Tolstoy's page, how can I easily find all of the others russian authors available on Feedbooks ?
That's the reason why we have contextual filters.
Let's take a look at how we list books for example:
You'll notice that the language of the book is available between [] and that the year of the publication is available between ().
Clicking on the title of the book or the name of its author, will open the page for the book/author.
But if you click on [en] or on (1891) you'll use a contextual filter.
Using general filters, you could already filter the books and keep those available in english only. But if you've just found a book written in german, how could you list other german books without this language available in the general filters ?
You may be able to filter books using periods such as "Renaissance" or "Modern", but you can't find other books published in 1891 this way.
That's why contextual filters are available, they allow any one to easily filter content using advanced rules, without filling a form full of options or typing a very user-unfriendly string of characters.
Some of these contextual filters will show up next to general filters, some other are displayed under them and you can discard them using
.Contextual filters are almost everywhere on the website: the index, on the page of an author or a book...
Recent/Top behaviour
In the right margin, you might notice a block (UI Help) for recently added items, and another one for top downloaded items.
These 2 blocks obey to the same filtering rules than the rest of the page.
Block for top downloaded science-fiction books
For every advanced browsing, you instantly get the corresponding top downloaded and recently added items on the same page.
You can click on the title of the block for further items.
If you're looking at recent or top books you'll even get an
this way.
This way you won't miss any new science-fiction book released for example ! Just add the feed to your browser, homepage, smartphone etc...
These 2 blocks obey to the same filtering rules than the rest of the page.
Block for top downloaded science-fiction books
For every advanced browsing, you instantly get the corresponding top downloaded and recently added items on the same page.
You can click on the title of the block for further items.
If you're looking at recent or top books you'll even get an
this way.This way you won't miss any new science-fiction book released for example ! Just add the feed to your browser, homepage, smartphone etc...