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riastrad / cyberbspace

these instructions, when followed in the right order, can conjure cyberspace from a jumble of files
https://cyberb.space
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build a bookshelf #30

Open riastrad opened 4 years ago

riastrad commented 4 years ago

I've been thinking a lot about getting off of GoodReads, and this morning this thing of beauty came across my inbox: https://codepen.io/andybarefoot/full/oNjxYYG

Might be a fun little project to create a virtual bookshelf that links to any words I've written for each book I read, rather than giving all of that data over to a 3rd party. Could be fun to also use this as an excuse to fiddle around with the LoC API.

riastrad commented 4 years ago

Looks like OpenLibrary also has a pretty good book covers API that could come in handy: https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers

Pulling up a current book cover is as simple as: https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn/014044789X-L.jpg

riastrad commented 5 months ago

Think I might be overthinking this. We could just pull all of my data into a json & then use eleventy to parse it into a summary page & distinct review / rating pages. See here for inspiration.

riastrad commented 1 month ago

Did a quick little mock up for the front end of this and I gotta say, I think I could pull this off:

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riastrad commented 1 month ago

Playing around with the CSS

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riastrad commented 1 week ago

I like a lot of what I did in #180, but as I was data munging & starting to think about the book lifecycle for this... I decided that it was too messy for what I need right now (see: https://github.com/riastrad/cyberbspace/pull/180#issuecomment-2487680522).

So I'm scrapping that work, and I'll start over with the goal of having a daily job that pulls read & currently reading books from the Oku RSS feeds, hits Open Library for a good ISBN, and commits the results to main.

riastrad commented 1 week ago

Already sort of doubting myself because of: inconsistent access to Oku's books API & how hard they make it to see and pull any reviews I've entered... Maybe this whole thing should just be managed in a spreadsheet that I update...