Open dastardlyfinger323 opened 7 months ago
tux-linux
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7 months ago Hi, these are good ideas, but unfortunately probably very hard to implement as we rely solely on regular expressions to parse Gutenberg catalog. You can have a look here and see for yourself: https://github.com/Kobo-InkBox/rootfs/tree/master/usr/local/bin/gutenberg As far as I can see, the csv catalog does not provide information for most popular books.
Szybet
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7 months ago Lol this method is cursed and is a meme
Jokes aside, there are libraries to parse html in a way like json - very convenient. So the problem is not "It's not possible" the problem is there is no people and time for that
tux-linux
commented
7 months ago Well, it's not parsing HTML, it's parsing CSV (thankfully)
Szybet
commented
7 months ago Thats's even worse, csv is a cool database format
marzagheddon
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7 months ago what about removing Project Gutemberg integration enterely? It doesn't make sense to have a botched implementation
Szybet
commented
7 months ago We plan to implement OPDS in the far future for a replacement
Discussed in https://github.com/Kobo-InkBox/inkbox/discussions/69
Include a toggle in the Library for viewing popular and random books atop the latest added, and increase the number of books fetched to at least 10 pages instead of 2 ("infinite" would be ideal). OR Have the Library display the most frequently downloaded books/authors for that day/week/month, and then add toggles to the Search for random, popular, and recently added books.