personal library

A  personal library  is an online collection of books and other media that reflects either physical or digital items one owns, wants to acquire, has bookmarked to read/watch/listen to, is currently doing so, or has in the past.

For pages about read posts or books distributed or readable online, please see those pages and examples.

There is also a broader notion of a library of things which include tools and other useful objects that individuals loan to others for temporary use and return, however there are no known IndieWeb examples of that yet.

How to
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How to maintain a personal library:

There aren’t any required practices, however, sometimes a personal library is maintained as an archive, or collections on individual page(s).

Christian Weiske
keeps a list of books he has read. Markup as h-cite with u-uid for the ISBN.
 * http://cweiske.de/books.htm

Paul Munday
has a page on his site for each of his books marked up with microformats as documented here: http://paulmunday.net/book-microformats.

Erin Jo Richey
publishes her personal library of books she owns (and has likely read most if not all) on her website:
 * http://erinjorichey.com/library/

Sebastiaan Andeweg
Has a page with a few books he knows (either owns/owned or borrowed or read or want to read) on https://seblog.nl/bieb

Ryan Barrett
keeps a list of books he has read (including ratings) and would like to read:
 * https://snarfed.org/books

Tom MacWright

 * Personal library at https://macwright.org/reading/, includes ratings
 * Details:

Xavier Roy
Xavier maintains an online personal library. There is also a new [antilibrary] available (blank as of 1/2021) with books he wants to read.

Maggie Appleton

 * Maggie Appleton keeps a personal "bookshelf" on her website at https://maggieappleton.com/library

Jacky Alcine
kept a static list of books he reads at https://web.archive.org/web/20210421180358/https://jacky.wtf/library/. Work is being done to restore it using Micropub channels.

Greg McVerry
keeps a collections of books he read at My Bookshelf, along with brief reviews

Beyond books keeps an extensive library of readings of academic journals as pdfs and stored in a semi public directory. He doesn't advertise the directory and does not allow it to be crawled but will often embed links to files when working on academic or long form writing.

Tracy Durnell
logs yearly reads with filterable views of main categories

Jeremy Keith
has some minimal reading posts on his site at https://adactio.com/notes/reading sinc [2017-01-02 https://adactio.com/notes/11683]. He also syndicates to Bookshop at https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/adactio and Open Library.
 * He's written some brainstorming about reading/library posts here: https://adactio.com/journal/16803

Hidde Devries
Hidde de Vries has a personal library on his site at https://books.hiddedevries.nl/, including ratings
 * 2021-01-04 How I turned my Goodreads data into a self-hosted website with Eleventy is an article with details about design decisions in the process as well as some details using Eleventy. Also included is a link to the source code at https://github.com/hidde/books

Sara Jakša
Sara keeps the list of books she read and the books she currently owns.

Other Examples
Other interesting or notable examples of people posting about reading on the web, perhaps lists of books they have read, perhaps on another site but not on a "read" post silo.

Amy McLay Paterson
Amy McLay Paterson read 164 books in 2015 and tracked them all in a spreadsheet.
 * Article: http://www.vox.com/2015/12/29/10634416/reading-list-books
 * Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f6OqC9c9wpZooYW0hip8QtoCwkNjsjbwXHY8hCDbTtU/edit#gid=952505333

Mandy Brown
Someone mentioned Mandy Brown's digital library at IndieWebCamp LA 2016 as a good example of someone reading and including some of their notes in posts.

Alex Chan

 * Alex Chan keeps their personal library at https://books.alexwlchan.net/reviews/

Horst Gutmann
Example at https://zerokspot.com/reading/

Sawyer Hollenshead
Sawyer Hollenshead keeps a digital personal library at https://highlights.sawyerh.com/ "After stewing in frustration for quite awhile about the current state of digital reading platforms, I decided to do what any sane programmer would do: Devise an overly complex solution for a seemingly simple problem. The prompt: How might I gather all my highlights from Kindle and put them into a personal online archive, where I can share, browse, and reflect on everything I’ve read? The result: highlights.sawyerh.com"
 * Site also includes highlights made in each of the books as well.
 * Example: https://highlights.sawyerh.com/volumes/0lPkBLsmwFVK5AGtAttP
 * 2018-07-23 How I export, analyze, and resurface my Kindle highlights: Using a serverless approach, natural language processing, and SMS

Amanda Pinsker
Amanda Pinsker, a product designer at GitHub, maintains a list of "Books I've read and where I read them" which is sort of a list of book checkins and actual location checkins. Each book includes a list of the underlines she's made in them.
 * Library: https://amandapinsker.com/reading

Michael Beckwith

 * Michael Beckwith keeps his personal library at https://apiratelifefor.me/books/ as an intended replacement for GoodReads.

Marc Littlemore
https://www.marclittlemore.com/books/

"'This page is generated using the Goodreads API and built using the static site generator 11ty. This allows me to automatically update this page each time I publish the site with any books I add to Goodreads.'"

Gordon Brander
Gordon Brander has a library at http://gordonbrander.com/lib/ with categories by topic

Josh Branchaud

 * https://bookshelf.joshbranchaud.com/

Boris Anthony
Boris Anthony has a libarary at http://boris.libra.re/library, generated apparently using data from Calibre. This example also includes the uncommon ability to sort books by the primary color of their bookcovers.

gealion
gealion has a bookshelf site at http://books.gealion.fr/  That&#39;s why I did this https://t.co/X7IuIxEExi (not much publicly visible and no Performance at all...) but I was sick of Goodreads for a lot of reasons &mdash; gealion (@gealion) March 24, 2022

Libib
Libib is a website & app that catalogs books, movies, music, and video games.

Oku
https://oku.club/

Literal.club
Literal.club is a silo reading and book cataloging service. It has iPhone and Android apps that allow archiving highlights and notes as well as syndication to Twitter, Instagram, and Whatsapp.
 * Invite only in late 2021

Tools
Tools to help publishing and interacting with personal libraries on your own site:

micro.blog
Micro.blog has bookshelves https://micro.blog/account/bookshelves, search https://micro.blog/books/search, and other UI for this. There is also an open source mobile app for books using Micro.blog called Epilogue.

indiebookclub
indiebookclub is a Micropub client for publishing read posts on your site.

BookWyrm
BookWyrm is built on ActivityPub for building social personal libraries. You can join a hosted instance of BookWyrm or run your own instance.

lending library
Publish a lending library on GitHub Pages using a spreadsheet: https://github.com/jlord/lending-library


 * Used by (listed above)

3dbook.xyz

 * https://3dbook.xyz/ a tool to allow uploading a (book, album, other) cover, customize the settings you want, and embed the resulting 3D animated cover on your website.

How to mark up

 * Thoughts?


 * Maintaining DRY principles with relation to read, bookmark, acquisition and other similar posts.

Reading list
Is there anything special about keeping a reading list beyond what you have in your personal library? E.g.
 * items in your personal library you want to (re)read
 * items you want to (temporarily) acquire to read
 * borrow from a friend
 * checkout from a public library

Notes from Jacky
2021-03-22 08:35 AM PST:

Digital reading lists can be more rich than the conventional approach. Keeping track of when I paused on a book and to see when would be a good time to resurface it would be helpful (probably manually done). Also being able to see what other books my friends have kept on their lists could also help with getting back into them

Decentralized Goodreads Experiments

 * 2020-04-15 Tom CritchlowLibrary JSON - A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads: V0.1 for an experimental open bookshelf spec


 * 2020-04-16 Matt Webb Re: Tom Critchlow’s proposal for a decentralised Goodreads-like system, how about using RSS?


 * 2020-04-24 Federated Bookshelves


 * 2020-04-25 Reading
 * proposal for microformats to create a decentralized Goodreads


 * 2021-05-06 Federated Bookshelf Proof of Concept


 * 2021-05-07 On OPML and RSS for Federated Bookshelves

Databases
Potential sources for book/library related data for importing/supporting one's own personal library:


 * Open Library (API)
 * ISBNdb (API)
 * Google Books (API)
 * Amazon
 * Goodreads
 * Worldcat (API)

IndieWebCamp Sessions
Previous IndieWebCamp related sessions related to personal libraries, books, and reading:
 * 2022/Pop-ups: Personal Libraries

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 * 2020/West: [[2020/West/indiereads|Keeping Track of Books


 * 2020/Austin: Reading


 * 2019/New_Haven: Books


 * 2016/LA/readingiw


 * 2015/Books!_Metadata!_Microformats!