eleybourn / Book-Catalogue

A book cataloging tool for Android phones.
https://github.com/eleybourn/Book-Catalogue/wiki
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Improve sync with Goodreads #749

Open emdalton opened 8 years ago

emdalton commented 8 years ago

Great app! I am finally realizing my long-standing wish of inventorying my library. :)

The sync with Goodreads seems to be a simple pull-push, rather than looking for changes since last update. Updates to data like title, cover, or isbn don't seem to get pushed to the Goodreads copy of the book (though that may be partially because the app version was initially created without an isbn). I realize that a true merge with conflict handling is complicated, but could we set the priority, so that either Goodreads overwrites the app or the app overwrites Goodreads? Or is that not possible through the Goodreads interface?

I've also noticed that ebooks imported to Goodreads from my Amazon account don't seem to be recorded fully in the app-- the isbn and cover are missing. All the data shows in my Goodreads account, though, including the isbn....

gilcot commented 7 years ago

Also noticed that when your import from Goodreads it may add some bookshelfs: