Albion BookLink
Make links take you to your favourite book store or site.

Ever found yourself in the wrong place as far as the web is concerned?
Does every link to an interesting book point to a website in another country or on another continent, and practically nothing link to your favourite online bookshop or library.

I had that problem, and wrote Albion BookLink as a result.

Here's How It Works

1. Install Albion BookLink to add a new item to the right click (context) menu of your Internet Explorer browser. (Note: you need to restart Internet Explorer after installation).
2. Select a link to a book or a book ISBN with your mouse.
3. Right Click, and select -> Booklink from the context menu
4. Choose where you want to go from the list offered.
5. Click OK, and now you're where you really wanted to be.

Step (2) can often be omitted, and just hovering over a link can work too. Albion Booklink is pretty smart at figuring out which book a page or link refers to.

This makes it very easy to go immediately from nearly any book link or page describing a book to the right page at your favourite bookstore or library in just a couple of clicks. It also makes it very easy to compare prices and check book reviews.

Note. Only Internet Explorer and Windows platforms supported.

Click on the button below to download your free personal copy. If you're serious about books, you may find this small Internet Explorer add-in indispensable.

Price

BookLink is free. Contact us if you need a (possibly modified) version for commercial distribution.

Support

If you have a comment on this program, a suggestion for an improvement, or a request to add you favorite bookstore or library, please use the product support form. There's no formal support (it's free, after all), but we would still like to know about any bugs you find or documentation that isn't as clear as it should be.

Note that we can't guarantee to link to all bookstores or libraries — some sites make life a lot harder than it should be or just don't want external links — but we'll see what we can do.

ISBN-10 and ISBN-13

Albion Booklink supports both the older ISBN-10 and newer ISBN-13 formats. Note that some older library systems cannot yet search successfully on the new ISBN-13 equivalents of old ISBN-10 numbers. Our ISBN Converter may be useful until these systems are upgraded.

Privacy

• We don't know who you are and we don't care which books you read.
• BookLink only redirects you when you explicitly ask it to.
• BookLink doesn't include spyware or adware. I wrote it because I needed it. It's just free.
• BookLink just does what it says it does. And does it well. I hope you find it useful.

Mike