InfiniteLibrary / infinite-electron

An Electron-based cross-platform desktop reader for free ebooks

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Future development roadmap? #13

Open egardner opened 7 years ago

egardner commented 7 years ago

Infinite Library Reader: Next steps

cc: @fchasen @ekmartin @eshellman

Now that we have a basic version of the app working (hooray!), it would be great to polish things up over the next few weeks/months as time allows. I'm happy to continue doing UI work and implementing other features where I can.

Here are some things I can think we may want to tackle in future development:

[x] Resize handling (just merged this in to master, but the release has not been updated)
[ ] Get the "my books" feature working – maybe store a list of the user's "saved" books in LocalStorage?
[ ] Plug into the unglue.it API for real now that @eshellman has opened it up

Any others?

eshellman commented 7 years ago

I'll be working on covers, and on providing a production catalog.

Hadrien got back to me with an updated version of OPDS-JSON which looks a lot nicer than the previous one. I'll be updating the unglue.it feed to align with that. I'll revise rewrite.js to isolate the changes.

For usability and MVP, saving the user's reading position is the only must-have I can think of.

Dan Cohen at DPLA was very impressed.

HadrienGardeur commented 7 years ago

Ping me if you need more insights regarding OPDS in JSON.

Just FYI, OPDS and the Readium-2 streamer use exactly the same metadata, so if you're also using the streamer (something that @fchasen hinted at), you could even handle the local shelf that way: one acquisition feed where all the publications are listed and you can directly access each publication's manifest.

egardner commented 7 years ago

Are you all familiar with Standard Ebooks? Looks like a similar effort to expose some of the gems in Project Gutenberg by proofreading, formatting, adding covers, etc.

It looks like they have an OPDS feed – could we add this as a source of data to the app?

eshellman commented 7 years ago

I'm working with Alex on https://github.com/Gutenbergbooks https://github.com/Gutenbergbooks

https://github.com/Gutenbergbooks Standard Ebooks OPDS is just a static file.

I'll add their feed to Unglue.it

https://github.com/Gutenbergbooks

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Are you all familiar with Standard Ebooks https://standardebooks.org/? Looks like a similar effort to expose some of the gems in Project Gutenberg by proofreading, formatting, adding covers, etc.

It looks like they have an OPDS feed https://standardebooks.org/opds/all – could we add this as a source of data to the app?

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