Rollin' Along

I can see why Rollyo has become a recommended tool. Putting all your subject-related search engines in one place saves time and keystrokes, and I plan on using and adding to the music search roll I created (on www.rollyo.com, "explore" the category Folk music by bloodhound) after this course is completed. The rare books search roll we were invited to look at turned up some interesting results, but as in a brick-and-mortar store I discovered you still have to dig for what you want and modify your searches. Typing in just the names of several 19th century American authors one by one (Hawthorn, Longfellow, Thoreau) yielded nothing immediately. In a different search, the terms "first edition" brought up quite a lot of hits and paging through those directed me toward information on an early work by the Scandinavian author Ibsen. The usual pitfalls of making a search too general come into play as well: searching for "biography" or "algebra" using the PLCMC search roll yielded too much or the wrong kind of information. So Rollyo isn't perfect, but it's worth testing to see if it works for you.