Because All Consuming is so very cool, and I’m so very lazy, I’ve written up a small bookmarklet that simplifies the process of adding an item to AC. Basically what it does is whenever you’re looking at an item on Amazon you can click on the bookmarklet and it will open up the item’s page in All Consuming in a new window, from which you can add it to your list.

Unfortunately, because AC uses it’s own id numbering system for adding items to lists, I can’t just make this bookmarklet automatically add the item (Erik, please tell me if I’m wrong here!), but it’s only one extra click to add the item anyway.

Bookmarklet link: Add to All Consuming (Updated link 2005-04-13)

How to set it up:

  • IE 5.5 and above: Right click on the link above, and then click on “Add to Favorites…”
  • Netscape 6 and above and Mozilla/Firefox: Drag the link into your bookmark bar or right click on the link and then click on “Add bookmark”/”Bookmark this link…”.
  • For Safari: Drag the link into your bookmark bar.

This bookmarklet works for Amazon URLs that have the /asin/1234567890/ format, i.e. The Shadow Rising and the /detail/-/1234567890/ format, i.e. The Eleventh Hour. If there are other formats that I’ve missed, please let me know.

To do: Expand the script to search the body text of the current page for ASIN’s and allow the user to select from a list.