{"id":211,"date":"2004-11-15T21:20:26","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T04:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/15\/i-dont-want-a-frickin-book\/"},"modified":"2004-11-15T21:20:26","modified_gmt":"2004-11-16T04:20:26","slug":"i-dont-want-a-frickin-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/15\/i-dont-want-a-frickin-book\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t want a frickin&#8217; book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s Search Inside the Book is neat, but for most part it just drives me crazy. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m not like other people, but most of the time I&#8217;m not buying books at Amazon. It&#8217;s DVDs, electronics, and other random stuff. Try a search for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/external-search\/102-6145428-5710527?keyword=Treo+650&#038;mode=blended&#038;tag=thescrabblera-20&#038;Go=Search\">Treo 650<\/a>. They have it listed, but it&#8217;s at the bottom of the page. The first listing is for a headset, followed by more accessories and books (which have nothing to do with this particular version of the Treo. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worse when they don&#8217;t even have the product you want. It just shows you an endless listing of books, which you have to scroll through anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is simple &#8211; give me an option to search everything BUT books OR just turn off searching inside the book. It&#8217;s hard to believe that Amazon doesn&#8217;t have an advanced search page.<\/p>\n<p>And while you&#8217;re obeying my every whim, Amazon, you can get rid of that hugungous movie on the home page. I&#8217;ve already watched it. Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s Search Inside the Book is neat, but for most part it just drives me crazy. Maybe I&#8217;m not like other people, but most of the time I&#8217;m not buying books at Amazon. It&#8217;s DVDs, electronics, and other random stuff. Try a search for Treo 650. They have it listed, but it&#8217;s at the bottom &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/15\/i-dont-want-a-frickin-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;I don&#8217;t want a frickin&#8217; book&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}