Searching MadCat from Online Bookstores
Adding a type of bookmark to your browser allows you to perform a one-click search of MadCat for a book displayed in Amazon.com and other online book vendors.Setting Up the Online Bookstore to MadCat Search
- Drag this MadCat Search link to your Favorites bar in your browser (or right-click on the link and select "Add to Favorites").
- View a book at an online book site. Amazon.com works well.
- Click on the MadCat Search bookmark you created in Step 1.
How the Search Works
The bookmark created above is not a normal bookmark. It is a bookmarklet, or, a small piece of javascript code that looks at the address of the Web page you're looking at, searches for the term ISBN, and then builds a MadCat search based on that ISBN. If there is no ISBN in the Web page address, the bookmarklet will not know how to search, and nothing will happen.