We're glad you've shown interest in the BookSense Bestseller lists. We feel this is an exciting use of RSS systems, and we hope you think the same. This document will provide some guidance so you can best access these feeds and use them for your personal use. If you are a website operator who is interested in making these lists available, please see the companion document.

The easiest way, of course, is for you to use the feeds just as you are now. You're always welcome to bookmark this page and to revisit it with your web browser. The lists are published weekly and made available for free on Friday mornings. Occasionally, we may publish other specialty lists, and their publication frequency will vary.

While this will work, we encourage you to learn more about News Aggregators and installing one on your own PC. These tools are becoming popular, easier to use, and will certainly be better than consulting lists of bookmarks all the time. Its like having a newspaper delivered to your front door insted of going to the newsstand every day. If you're interested, read on. Increasingly, these aggregators are becoming part of the email client or web browser that you use everyday.

Just like selecting a computer, a car, or a web browser, selecting a news aggregator is a very personal choice. While we have ones that we use and enjoy, you may wish to try several to determine which one works best for you. Fortunately, aggregators all use data in the RSS format, so you should have no trouble getting our feeds. Here are just a few news readers we have encountered, give them a test drive to find one that meets your needs:

Now that you have an aggregator installed, you need to get the address of the RSS feed. Next to each feed on our site (and somewhere on most sites that provide RSS feeds) you will see an orange box that says "XML". Clicking on this button will take you to the XML for the feed itself, but you can also use it to get the address for the feed. See this table for how to do it based on your browser:

Once you have this address, you will need to provide it to your aggregator. It should then pick up the current feed and monitor it for changes in the future.

Many news aggregators can subscribe to a news feed automatically, or at least with a little help from you. There are a couple of ways to do this which we support.

The green buttons (next to the orange buttons), work with a service known as the Syndication Subscription Service to register the subscription methods of several readers. Clicking on the button sends the address of the relevant RSS feed to the service, which can then configure your reader to load the feed.

Additionally, some news aggregators and web browsers will notice the special tags that we have included in the page listing available feeds, as well as on each page. Your reader or web browser may notice this and prompt you to add this to your subscription list. Firefox, for example, will present a small orange icon in the lower right hand corner of your window which will add the feed as a "Live Bookmark" and then make the feed entries available through your Bookmarks. Opera will provide a "Newsfeed" link on the navigation toolbar which will automatically subscribe you to the feed.