• @[email protected]
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    2 years ago

    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
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      12 years ago

      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.

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        12 years ago

        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?