Book image links

[rachelmanija]

Up until today, Amazon enabled you to get an image link of a book's cover with one click, which you could then post on your website. This is how I got the images for my book reviews. Today it ended that function and now only enables text links.

It is extremely cumbersome and time-consuming to upload images on DW and I'm not going to do it every time I review a book. There's also a limit to how many images I can upload. Is there any other book site that enables one-click image links? Or is there some workaround to still get that from Amazon? I really like having a nice-sized image of the book cover on my reviews.

Comments

[eglantiere]

you can do it via goodreads, but it's just a bit finicky:

1) add a book to your list
2) go to "my books"
3) in the list of the book, in the nameless column that goes after "date read", you'll see small-lettered links "edit" and "view."
4) click on "view"
5) in the little window to the right you'll see an embed code starting with <a href=... - copy it and paste to your editor. 6) delete everything from "My rating" to the end 7) write your post immediately after the link ends, don't press Enter so you'll have a nicely wrapped image.

[yhlee]

Oof, that's annoying, I'm so sorry. I'm wondering if they ended that because they were getting enough hotlinking to cause drag on the server! (I remember the not-actually-a-joke joke that CHRISTMAS SHOPPING on Amazon is a DDoS attack anywhere else...)

One of the reasons I so seldom post images on DW is (and I know there are good reasons for it) a PITA. I generally end up hosting them on my own server and then manually coding in the HTML, gigantic PITA.

...if you ONLY care about the cover image (not, e.g., "buy this book here for affiliate/whatever" reasons), can you grab from e.g. Barnes & Noble's website instead?? Getting image link with a single click still appears to work there.

[rachelmanija]

When I paste the image address I'm getting this instead of an actual image.


https://prodimage.images-bn.com/lf?set=key%5Bresolve.pixelRatio%5D,value%5B1%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.width%5D,value%5B600%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.height%5D,value%5B10000%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.imageFit%5D,value%5Bcontainerwidth%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.allowImageUpscaling%5D,value%5B0%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.format%5D,value%5Bwebp%5D&source=url%5Bhttps://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/9781250265258_p0_v3_s600x595.jpg%5D&scale=options%5Blimit%5D,size%5B600x10000%5D&sink=format%5Bwebp%5D

[yhlee]

Sorry, by "image address" do you mean "image URL" or the actual JPEG/whatever image FILE?

I've just tested this. I know it looks like RIDICULOUS GOBBLEDEGOOK but if you paste it in the HTML you will get an image.

<img src="INSERT_GOBBLEDEGOOKHERE" />

code in HTML mode will get you an image, e.g. here [locked but you should be able to see it).

EDIT: if you mean the image FILE and not its URL/ADDRESS for hotlinking, that's different (and B&N will not work for that unless you're, well, screencapping and then uploading somewhere).

I guess the follow-up question is, are you writing your entries in HTML/casual HTML or using whatever the Rich Text mode is? The weird code will work in an IMG tag in HTML. Rich Text I have no idea.

I have to get some work done but maybe someone else will have a better idea.

[rachelmanija]

It works! Thank you so much! I forgot to add the html.

[yhlee]

Oh yay!

Yeah, I actually have not looked into this in any depth and I should, but I have discovered a bunch of places saving their images with .webp and if I rename them locally to .jpg they're...JPEG files or open equivalently? XD

[havocthecat]

I rely on a Firefox extension that basically pulls most of them right back to their original file type: Don't Accept Image/WebP. I'm sure it's available for other browsers. But it's helped me out a lot with getting images downloaded.

[ursula]

Bookshop.org also has easily accessible image source files, though it doesn't have the huge back catalog of Amazon. (It also sends you books at random occasionally if you order from them, in my experience, which is entertaining--though getting an unwished-for serial killer book was creepy--but surely bad for business.)

[derien]

The weird thing is, your book posts only showed those images for me very early on, and then I always got a broken link image, but it actually worked if I clicked on it, and took me to Amazon to see the picture. So for me there would be no change if you did the text link.