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Nothing constructive to add, but good job. How are the prices updated btw?

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zaimOP•

Thanks.

Screen scraping. If the book isn't already in the database, the prices are directly retrieved from the bookstore's website.

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mr_jp•

Hey , great app. I like the minimalist web 2.0 layout. Simple and nice.

Its unfortunate that borders malaysia doesn't have a website right ?

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zaimOP•

Thanks. Yeah, too bad there's no Malaysian Borders site. But I heard Borders US is closing down, wonder if this affects Malaysia?

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mr_jp•

WOW, I just wiki'd it. They are BANKRUPT and are closing 200 stores in the US !

Anyways, I'm showing the site to my friends and sharing on facebook. Good job ! :)

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crackanape•

Borders at Times Square already sold off 90% of their stock at clearance prices and moved to a little shop in the basement. I wouldn't be terribly optimistic about their future here. It's a shame; while Kinokuniya kicked their ass in selection, most of their books are shrink-wrapped so you can't browse before buying. At Borders you could flip through the books, which had me making a lot more purchases there.

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skubasteve81•

Since coming to Malaysia about 2 years ago, I've never understood that thing with shrink-wrapping the books and not allowing for browsing. I've bought so many books based on bookstore browsing. It's very rare that I go into a bookstore knowing what I want.

I'm a big fan of the cheap place on the top floor of Amcorp Mall (PJ), myself. I can't think of the name, though. There might be more of them.

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crackanape•

You mean the place that has all of last year's bestsellers on the left wall for RM17? Yeah, I used to go there a lot too before I got too lazy to visit PJ anymore.

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humbagerBurger daging special, tamou sayur!•

Wow great app! I like the straightforwardness of it.Any chance you'll be doing a used-book one after this? :p I find it hard to find second hand books online other than through Mudah.my or LY.net forums.

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zaimOP•

BukuTip already searches Mudah.my for used books, it's just that the results might be limited. I have plans add eBay (and now LY.net).

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mrpunman•

You are an amazing app developer. Have an upvote!

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jjr798•

Nicely done my fellow malaysian. Keep your site clean and light. Don't stop with only this.

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zaimOP•

The code is now open source, btw :)

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skullride•

Great stuff. How difficult it is to add other sites? Dawama, ujanailmu are the two sites used by most Malay readers.

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zaimOP•

I have to admin I don't really read Malay books :), so I didn't know about those sites. I'll look into them... Thanks.

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nakiki•

Awesome :) it seems to be better than most of the local websites I've seen

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prhlnDon't sodomize me, bro!•

I love it. It looks sweet — but I tried searching for a book I contributed in, but didn't find it. I know for a fact it's available at Kinokuniya and Borders, though. Oh well — I think I'll be using this a lot.

Is there any way you could link it with, say, the database at BookXcess? They have the cheapest brand new books, and knowing you can get a book for RM17 instead of RM57 can make a huge deal of difference!

Great work, all around.

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zaimOP•

Thanks! :)

Your book was probably not included in Google Books, try searching there. I use Google to initially search for books and then look up Kino/MPH/etc. for prices.

BookXcess was already linked in but I had to disable it for the moment because of technical issues (their "database" is just a list of PDF files, which are harder to parse). I'll let you know when its up again.

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gomok•

Great app :)

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