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Re:Show HN: Book Cheaply - Don't buy textbooks you don't nee... by 27182818284 on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @07:49PM (#4879592)
Why not add way more schools to choose from? It is difficult to get 99% of schools, but scraping the first 80% is pretty easy.

Great idea. Great start. Keep going with it.

Re:Show HN: Book Cheaply - Don't buy textbooks you don't nee... by vital101 on Thursday December 06, 2012 @09:34AM (#4881848)
I'm trying to slowly scale up. Adding schools is easy enough, but I also need to get all of their departments, their instructors, and their courses. All this info can be gathered by scraping, but format varies greatly on a per school basis. I also want to get reviewed seeded on a per school basis before I move on to the next one. I allow the users to add most of that info, but the more info they have to enter the higher the barrier to entering a book rating is.