An Easy Way To Remove Hover Popups on BookLikes

Kythe42's Astral Library

I've been a book worm for pretty much my whole life. I've read many types of books over the course of my life, but currently the sorts of books I enjoy the most are fantasy and science-fiction. I particularly like it if these genre's are mixed with comedy like the style of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. I definitely can enjoy more serious fantasy and science-fiction though. I also enjoy vampire books, but not quite as much as I did when I was younger.

I'm not going to add any books to my shelves that I read before 2012 just because I've read so many books in my life and it's difficult to remember when I read them and how well I liked them, and I'm sure there are a great many books that I've read in my life that I've completely forgotten about.

The editions that I have displayed on my shelves do not necessarily correspond to editions that I actually own. I generally just use whatever edition has my favorite cover which may or may not match the covers of the books I actually own. If I own more than one copy of a book, in most cases I won't have multiple editions displayed on my shelves. An exception to this would be collective books/omnibuses in which the individual stories are all available separately. In this case I will probably use the individual books for tracking my reading, but will display the omnibus or anthology just as a book that I own.

Because BookLikes does not have any suitable way to track re-reading books, I have created a shelf called "all books read" in which I will permanently place every book that I have read. Books that I am re-reading will get transferred back and forth between the official "read" shelf and the "planning to read" and "currently reading" shelves.

An Easy Way To Remove Hover Popups on BookLikes

1:38 am 29 August 2014

Since BookLikes seems to have no intention of removing the hover popups from the entire site and I find some parts of the site almost unusable with them(particularly when viewing other people's shelves), I decided to try to figure out a way to remove them myself.

I know that I could probably accomplish this with Greasemonkey, but I'm not much good at scripting and it was just too complicated for me. Then I found out that the Adblock Plus addon for Firefox has a companion addon called Element Hiding Helper which will easily remove any elements from a webpage that you wish to hide. Note, you must have Adblock Plus installed before installing this add on. Once it's installed you click on "Select an element to hide" from the AdBlock Plus menu and you can then select the parts of the webpage you want to hide.

You can also manually add filters to hide elements of webpages. To make it easier for you, I've identified three elements to hide that I think should eliminate all remaining hover popups from BookLikes.

booklikes.com###book-move (removes the hover popups from the main site)

booklikes.com###book-popup (removes the hover popups from people's blogs)

booklikes.com###book-loader (removes the hover popup loading animation)

If you still experience hover popups on any part of the site, please let me know and I'll look into it and identify the additional filters needed to remove them.

After the hover popups are removed, clicking on book covers will open up the book page in a new browser tab. This is less than ideal, but I would still prefer this to the hover popups. I only wish there was a way to restore the old hover tool tips that simply displayed the book title and author.

Please feel free to reblog this post and share it with anyone you know that hates the hover popups.

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