website choice: Zoomii (http://zoomii.com/#home)
interesting. this is a bookstore website that shows the images of the books they have, sorted into categories where you can scan 20 or 30 book covers at once. i rather like how it's set up so you can browse like a bookstore (i guess that's their main feature, so duh, that's what makes it special). i am apparently guilty of judging a book by its cover or at least if a good cover draws my eye and i'll then pick it up and look at the description. i must be more of a visual person than i thought i am. i was pleased to find their prices are comparable to amazon, at least for the half-dozen i checked. it really is a neat website if you aren't searching for a specific title or author and are just browsing for something new that looks good.
as for using this in a library setting, it might be a browsing tool we recommend to browsers that really like to see the covers of books. with all of our books on the shelves, it's hard to see the covers. i've noticed books we put on display with their covers showing tend to be checked out more often than items just on the new book shelves. overall, quite a neat website.
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