2017/reading

 Reading posts  was a session at IndieWeb Summit 2017.

Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/reading Video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_RMvxy9J7g

When: 2017-06-24 15:00

Participants

 * (session facilitator)
 * Michelle JL
 * Jack Jamieson
 * Tom Brown
 * Anton Podviaznikov
 * Anton Podviaznikov

Key wants from the group

 * Keeping track of books to read
 * Discovering new books to read
 * Keeping track of research read, citations
 * Keeping track of highlights, personal notes
 * Keepng track of reading progress
 * Commentary and reviews

Micropub Client
gRegor: Interested in building a very minimal MP client tomorrow to post "want to read" books

Ben: Ideal UI would be start to type in the book title and it would search / fill in the ISBN / additional info

Jim: Could also do photo of cover

Anton: Goodreads has restrictions on how long you can retain data from their API

Ben: collaborative databases of books other people have added

Discovery
Ben: I explicitly want to break out of my "bubble" to find new material. A network of recommendations. Personal recommendations are more important than anything else.

gRegor: there could be an IndieNews-like hub that people could webmention their /read posts to and it could aggregate / aid discovery

Tracking Progress
Michelle: Interested in tracking pages read per day, not just current page number.

Amin: reading a lot of academic papers, skims them doesn't read in-depth. Doesn't spend time to log his notes with it. Wheras with a book he's vested more time in it. The overhead of switching between academic papers and tracking it is too much.

Michelle: has favorite blog articles on certain topics. e.g. "If you're trying to learn flexbox here's my recommended 3 articles"

Jack: If metadata could be extracted from academic articles you could populate information more easily and make posting quicker.

Amin + Jack: Interested in tracking academic articles and notes, possibly articles that they cite e.g. "you read this article and it cites these two articles so you might be interested in them"

Tom: Interested in a book club using this. Ben suggested POSSE to Twitter with hashtag

Next Steps

 * gRegor working on MP client tomorrow
 * Jack looking into Google Scholar API to retrieve academic article info