Advertising / affiliate programs - your opinion is wanted

[Mervi]

Right, I've added an amazon (uk) search widget to the sidebar of the wiki and I'd love to know what you people think - is it horrible, an abomination, ugly, distracting, does it slow everything down or could it maybe even be useful? For years I've wanted to be able to link from the book pages of the wiki to an affiliate store, but all the available extensions are rather cumbersome or downright unsafe to use. I actually really wanted to embed a search banner from the book depository, but at the moment it looks like I can't customise it to fit. So amazon it is. Sigh. My hope is that, someone browsing the wiki and coming across a Hobb/Lindholm title they hadn't previously known about might be inspired to quickly use it to search for that title. We'll see what happens... but please let me know if you find it super annoying!