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Openreads is looking for funding for IOS development. (github.com)
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[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I wonder how this compares with Bookwyrm, which is federated.

https://bookwyrm.social/

[–] Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

This is an offline tracker, so it doesn't compare per se. There were talks about integrating bookwyrm into the app, but as of now there is no public API.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Same issue. Both rely purely on Open Library who have very limited database, so you pretty much have to enter all data manually. That's not an issue if you have 10 or 50 books. But once you reach 1000s it's not viable.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This makes me think:

What if we could contribute our Calibre metadata to Bookwyrm ? All it would take is a plugin to connect Calibre servers to the Fediverse, right?

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Definitely should be possible. And in general there are ways to get the data in, it's just not average user-friendly. Even a simple Calibre export can be imported by a Bookwyrm instance admin, it just requires some data parsing before that. Nobody is really willing to do that on a scale that matters.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking:

  1. User installs plugin
  2. Popup window prompts for Fediverse login and offers a prominent Bookwyrm create account button with default instance or chose another, it would be cool if it would autofill everything except email and password.
  3. Once inside, it shows you a list of checkboxes where you can chose what to share: book info (metadata), user reviews (stars), is there anything else?
  4. Shows you a progress of what is being synced
  5. Once "closed", it will run in the background every time you run Calibre, unless you set it to manual sync.

Any ideas?

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

I think it's worth exploring, but maybe not in here. This is way off-topic from the original post.

[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Don't bookwyrm also uses inventaire.io too?

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

They might be, but it has the same issue as Open Library, lack of books and missing details.