Barnes & Noble refreshed their website recently and some of the additions are useful but overall falls short. When you reach the refreshed site, a 1/3 of the page is dedicated to B&N picks presented in a scrolling flash window. Unfortunately, you are only given a pause button instead of back/forward/skip a page controls. This leads to problems when you are interested in an item and you don’t get your mouse up to it quick enough, it’s off the page and you have to wait for a full rotation to get back to it. It’s also dissappointing that in 2007 the picks are selections chosen by BN without any regard to who I am. (continue reading…)
