For last week's post on organizing, I was trying to find a way to make a book link useful without necessarily promoting a specific website.
Not that any referrals here might move the needle on anything, but I dislike the idea of favoring some particular vendor over another.
I didn't come across a great answer, but here are some that might do, for example when looking up 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing' - which honestly is a rather too-long title.
- Pick you local library's page. I kind of like this one because I'm a big believer in public libraries, and while it's obviously less than ideal for a global audience, it's nice to give readers a place where they might directly go check out the book.
- Pick the author's page. This at least promotes the author, but you might have to wade through some unrelated content to get there.
- Pick the publisher's page, in this case part of Random House Books, but it seems this might have been published by Ten Speed Press at one point.
- Pick a web search engine and use a query link - here is the duckduckgo link. You probably want to trim the query parameters a bit, and you run the risk of coming out with a bunch of meta links (talking about the book for example), or just the wrong thing if the title isn't a distinct thing. Alternatively, link to a search by ISBN.
- Give up and pick a vendor. Amazon, Barned & Noble, what-have-you.
Happy linking!
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