2020/West/indiereads

 Keeping Track of Books and Reading Progress  was a session at IndieWebCamp West 2020.

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Notes archived from etherpad: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/indiereads

IndieWebCamp West 2020 Session: Keeping Track of Books and Reading Progress When: 2020-06-27 17:00

Participants

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 * Ana Ulin
 * Joseph Dickson
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Proposal

 * I would like to discuss the use-cases and experiences of using our websites to: 1) track books we want to read 2) categorize (or “shelve”) books 3) track reading progress. More at https://gregorlove.com/2020/06/i-am-proposing-a-session/
 * Posting about what books one is reading online has long been a pattern online and there's a rich tradition of book blogging. Corporate silos like Goodreads and LibraryThing have moved into the space and now own the lion's share. How can we design better, more decentralized online shared reading experience? How might one make an open hub for aggregation and discovery while still allowing users to own and control their data? Rather than developers always trying to reinvent the wheel, can we come together and map out some common patterns and collaborate on distributed solution that works everywhere?
 * See also:
 * https://indieweb.org/read
 * https://indieweb.org/personal_library
 * http://indiebookclub.biz/
 * https://indieweb.org/book
 * FediReads (https://github.com/mouse-reeve/fedireads) - an ActivityPub based Goodreads like service with https://openlibrary.org/; Demo available on Glitch; (see also https://twitter.com/tripofmice/status/1230235138341998592)
 * Readlebee (https://gitlab.com/Alamantus/Readlebee) - An attempt at a viable alternative to Goodreads, has a solid list of features for implementation/UI
 * josephine - Book catalogue system in Python 3/Django3, modeled after GoodReads and books.hansdezwart.nl. Comes with a GoodReads import script.
 * Hans de Zwart's Books (https://books.hansdezwart.nl/) - Interesting example on a personal site with some reasonable UI design on presentation. (apparently done in php, but not opensource)
 * Nice reads (https://glitch.com/~nice-reads): Twitter/Google-based app on Glitch
 * Adactio proposal for microformats to create a decentralized Goodreads: Reading (https://adactio.com/journal/16803)
 * Could a system like news.indieweb.org or indieweb.xyz be used as a template for a discovery hub?