Options for indiebookclub links

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Options for indiebookclub links #158

Closed toddgrotenhuis closed 4 years ago

toddgrotenhuis commented 4 years ago

Currently, indiebookclub links are a search on Amazon. Suggest one or more of the following changes:

Have the link search on Indiebound, Openlibrary, or Alibris instead
Allow users to choose the URL/search service to use
Add the option for users to include their affiliate ID for the service that is linked

ghost commented 4 years ago

Does this only happen on the Micro.blog timeline/in Micro.blog hosted sites, or does it also happen on non-Micro.blog sites?

toddgrotenhuis commented 4 years ago

I'm on a hosted account. It appears to make a "micro.blog/books/" link that forwards to a Amazon search.

See an example here: e.g. https://blog.grotenhuis.info/2019/12/06/finished-reading-knife.html

manton commented 4 years ago

Good idea. I didn't expect that we'd stick with Amazon forever, just that it made a good default to start with. A setting on the blog itself makes sense to me.

As more people link to the same books, we could also point the URLs to a page that shows other blog posts about that book, with extra links for places to buy the book.

manton commented 4 years ago

I've changed the book links to add a simple preview page with the book cover and a link to Amazon and Bookshop.org. I think there's more we could do with this page later. Thanks!

manton commented 4 years ago

The book covers use https://openlibrary.org, and not all book covers are available. In the future we could pull covers and other book metadata from more sources.