@jayeless Nice, I especially like the to-read list. I'm wondering if I need one as well.
Where do you get the cover art for the books?
@jayeless Been enjoying your recounting of your thought processes here. I've been tracking my own reading in various forms for years, but your systems and ideas are much more fascinating than anything I've concocted.
@jayeless impressive work! Though too bad that you need to put in so much effort. As you said earlier, this really is something that should be solved by the IndieWeb.
@V_ Thank you! I've just downloaded the book covers off the internet manually, and reuploaded them… my assumption is that because it's used for an illustrative purpose it's covered by "fair use" and fine.
@Portufraise Thank you! 😊
@twweaver I'm glad you've enjoyed! Funnily enough I've been wondering if I need a plain "books I've read" page as well, just because as I go further back through my Goodreads I find more and more books with either no or a one-line review…
@mroutley Yeah, it's all very manual work at the moment. I feel like a good IndieWeb solution should still be integratable with my own site, but it would definitely be easier if I could, say, use some interface to manage a flat-file database and have all the pages generated with templates using that data, plus a JSON or XML or whatever file that could be imported into an "IndieWeb Goodreads alternative" (like how Micro.blog lets people import blog feeds). At this stage I feel like me learning how to work on a project like that would be more work than managing my books manually though 😅
Ah, the same as I do as well. And I have similar sorrows regarding the licenses. You could use cover from Open Library, but most books I read don't seem to be on it. These are explicitly allowed to use for such cases.
