Last year I mentioned to my friends \u00a0Penny<\/a> and Con<\/a> that I might try not to rely on local bookstores when buying books for the library, but instead order solely online and have them delivered. Suddenly they were excited and yelling – “Booko<\/a>, Booko, try Booko”.<\/p>\n Just last week one of the students in my classes was recommending Booko to his classmates as a way to get cheaper text books, so I suspect that there are still some library folk who do not know about this tool.<\/p>\n Dan Milne was sick of trying to work out the best prices for online books<\/a> – especially when one took into consideration the exchange rate and the cost of shipping. That’s how Booko<\/a> came about. Plug in details of the book you want and it dashes off to search several local and overseas shops to calculate the cheapest one. \u00a0Dan now gets a small “referrer fee” when one purchases an item as a result \u00a0of a link from Booko – but he doesn’t let it affect the search. I have found that sometimes the search (understandably) does not indicate whether the item is in stock at the store, so sometimes one has to click through to a few to get something cheap and available now, now, now…<\/p>\n Here’s a pic of what happened when I searched for Tim Winton’s Bugalugs Bum Thief:<\/p>\n![\"ShelfCheck](\"http:\/\/static.toondoo.com\/public\/p\/o\/e\/poesygalore\/\/toons\/cool-cartoon-1964548.png\" "\\"Click")
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