Where's My Book?
2018-22-05 - Update to fix broken CSS. In the process, it kind of forced my hand to push a long awaited update for, tada, sorting by Author/Title!
I will probably try to make a video on how this works at some point, but for those of you with enough attention span to read these directions (this is Google Books), here's what you need to know. The "Sort by Author" / "Sort by Title" functionality will only sort those books which have been loaded on the page, i.e. as you continue to scroll down, more books will be loaded, so you will need to hit the sort button again to sort them. Kind of a pain, I know, but again, so is using Google Books itself. I didn't incorporate the functionality to happen automatically (like the filtering does) b/c sorting is much more expensive and would make the page totally unusable. Maybe at some point, I will try to make this happen more elegantly (using web workers in the background or something) but this is the simple implementation for now. Personally, I don't see myself using this feature much, but several people have asked for something like this, so I hope someone finds it useful. Thanks for those who reached out to me on my personal email address. Just an FYI, when leaving a review or feedback in the Chrome App Stor e, Google does not alert me that there is an email or review, I only find out when I go to log into the dashboard, which is basically never. Sending me a personal email at bradleybossard+wheresmybook@gmail.com is the best way to update me that the extension is broken again.
Google Play Books is an overall useful product with one major oversight...There is no ability to search for a book you've uploaded. I mean, it's a search company right? I'm not talking like full text search, I would just settle for the title.
It's been like this for years, so I've decided to do something about it.
I know, I know, not great, but it's a start. I have a few hundred of epubs,pdfs,etc now and can never find anything on the browser, so I got ticked and wrote this extension. Hope it helps others too. Drop me a line if you have ideas on making it better.