{"id":6575,"date":"2012-07-09T19:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=6575"},"modified":"2012-07-14T15:25:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T19:25:13","slug":"goodreads-context-menu-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2012\/07\/09\/goodreads-context-menu-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodreads Context Menu Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At some point when I am not too lazy, I should empower my future laziness. I really need an easier way to look up books on Goodreads when I see them mentioned on other pages.<\/p>\n<p>For example, say I go to\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/bigread\/top100.shtml\">BBC&#8217;s Big Read<\/a> and want to add some to my wish list. At present I would highlight the title, Ctrl+C to copy, Alt+Tab to a window\/tab with goodreads.com, click in the search box, Ctrl+V to paste, and hit Enter. Probably would take no more than a couple seconds.<\/p>\n<p>What I want is to be able to highlight the title, right-click to bring up the context menu, and click on search for the title on Goodreads. Probably would take less than a second.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough with Google Chrome I can make the default search Goodreads. That achieves the above with the draw back that all searches go through it. So not a great solution as I do love being able to search from the address bar. But it&#8217;ll work for now as long as I remember to put it back.<\/p>\n<p>Writing an extension appears to be the solution. Thus where my laziness is the barrier.<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point when I am not too lazy, I should empower my future laziness. I really need an easier way to look up books on Goodreads when I see them mentioned on other pages. For example, say I go to\u00c2\u00a0BBC&#8217;s Big Read and want to add some to my wish list. At present I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[256],"tags":[2527,287,2380,262],"class_list":["post-6575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing","tag-context-menu","tag-goodreads","tag-posted-2012","tag-search"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-1I3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}