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Bookfinder mentions (89)

• Does anyone have any tools for tracking down hard to find books?

  My first stop is always bookfinder. Doesn't cross-reference every site but it does a good chunk of them. Source: 10 months ago

• Ideas for a 7 day celebration for my S.O.'s birthday?

  If an era (say civil war) go to http://bookfinder.com. Now on the front page click Advanced Search. You can select year of publication. So for civil war I would plug in up to 1900. Source: 11 months ago

• Where do you find out what a book you’re repurposing is worth?

  First you need to learn to grade the book, as value is related directly to condition. Then you can look the book up on bookfinder.com and see what it's worth. But... there's a caveat. There's lots of "script sellers" out there, sellers that don't actually own the book - but which scrape the data, markup the price and offer it for sale, planning to buy it when you do. There's also many utter idiots who will... Source: 11 months ago

• I’m applying to SJSU for Fall 2024 and I have no idea how I’m going to live out there

  If you NEED to purchase a book, use bookfinder.com to find the cheapest books. Always verify the ISBN to make sure you get the correct one edition. Source: 11 months ago

• Best Place For Textbooks

  You should also check bookfinder.com. Source: 11 months ago

AlternativeTo mentions (423)

• I want to create IMDB for Open source projects

  This is the best that I've ever used to search for similar software: https://alternativeto.net/ No alternative to it that I'm aware of. - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• I want to create IMDB for Open source projects

  Https://alternativeto.net/ fills that role for me, it has crowd-sourced reviews, searchable facets, and of course recommendations. - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• Browse Self-Hosted Software

  > None of these lists ever seem to be as fleshed out, up to date, or well organized as https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted or "best of" lists to pick a couple options to evaluate in more depth. If I analyzed 10 times as many options I might discover really wonderful projects I would have otherwise missed, but I struggle to imagine having that kind of time. - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago

• Thinking about switching, what am I giving up?

  There are plenty of video editors available. Go to alternativeto.net which allows you to search for, well, alternatives to your existing apps. Source: 4 months ago

• Alternatives?

  Just recently I created a post showcasing a library I wrote and the first comment was: there is this other package that does that already. Sure it does, sort of, but its not a silver bullet just as pretty much anything. For applications there are platforms like https://alternativeto.net/ where people can vote for/against them, suggest alternatives and describe the differences between them. I've googled for... Source: 7 months ago