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Link to copies of books on the Internet Archive #3246

Open stopregionblocking opened 7 months ago

stopregionblocking commented 7 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Describe the solution you'd like BookWyrm could link directly to copies of books on the Internet Archive whenever they're available, making it much easier for users to start reading or just browse books they're interested in.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context BookWyrm already handles imports from OpenLibrary, & OL records are often linked to IA copies of books, so maybe there's a relatively straightforward way to build this on whatever already exists.

skobkin commented 7 months ago

Don't we already have "Get a copy" section for that?

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mouse-reeve commented 7 months ago

We do have that, but it has to be added manually. But it would be great if an OpenLibrary import automatically found IA copies and added hem to the "get a copy" list

stopregionblocking commented 7 months ago

Not sure if each needs a separate issue opened (maybe depending on how much people are into the sites themselves), but additional sources to consider along the same lines could be Project Gutenberg, LibriVox, Standard Ebooks, HathiTrust, & Google Books.

mouse-reeve commented 7 months ago

That’s a good idea, but more complex than it might seem on the surface. Those would all be a very different proposition from a technical perspective. We already connect to IA for data, but the others we don’t have existing connectors and in some cases may not permit programmatic access.

shuvashish76 commented 6 months ago

I listen audiobooks from https://librivox.org/ by simply coping the RSS link from a specific book & use it on my AntennaPod app.

Can we use the RSS number as unique id to fetch data as mentioned here?