UI - Going back to Open Library after reading a scanned book

Bug #565439 reported by Dan Perkel
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Open Library
Fix Committed
Undecided
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Bug Description

(1) I look at a scanned book from a "read online" link.
(2) I am done looking at the book and want to go back to Open Library.
(3) As far as I can tell no links on the page can get me back to the page that launched the book browser.
(3a) This is a problem if I have clicked on a lot of pages in the book because each page click makes a new entry in my browser history
(3b) There are no links back to any page on Open Library as far as I can tell. Each link that is not a book-navigation link takes me to archive.org instead

Suggestions:
- Consider overhaul to the page that displays the books because you lose all site context and the icons are fairly unclear
- Definitely have a link to Open Library's front page from any book page
- Consider having direct link back to the page from which user gets to the scanned book

Tags: ui
Revision history for this message
Dan Perkel (dperkel) wrote :

I meant to add: This happens in the upstream site also.

Revision history for this message
Edward Betts (edwardbetts) wrote :

This is fixed in the next version of the book reader.

Changed in openlibrary:
status: New → Fix Committed
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