Hope and then despair at book listing
Flipkart is finally listing Bengali books. However, going through the listings I was forced to be disgusted. It looks shoddily done and, without a proper care of reviewing the entries. There are:
- Titles which are wrongly typed. Even phonetically they don't come close
- Author names which show wide variation
- Wrong listings too
In short it means that unless I chance upon that book it would be impossible to search by either Title or, Author Name. And, for an online bookstore that just takes away the interest in clicking through a number of books/pages to arrive at the book. Which is where another thing bothers me. In this day and age, why can I not set a preference about how many books I want listed once I login ? Or, for example, choose to see an infinite scroll ? There ought to be a way to handle that.
I am happy that I can (if I try hard enough) actually buy Bengali books off Flipkart. I am disappointed at the fact that they did not put as much care as they did for their English language books.
Labels: Bengali Books, Flipkart, Listing, Search
- posted by sankarshan @ 1/11/2011 01:55:00 PM
