manton
manton

Micro.blog has a mini Goodreads-like feature built in. Why not! I love books and this helps me blog about what I’m reading. The bookshelves account page is one of my favorite things.

Screenshot of Micro.blog bookshelves page.
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terrygrier
terrygrier

@manton How do you get 1 page on your blog will all of your shelves? It seems each shelve - if you wish to make public - will be on its own page. It would seem to make sense to see it displayed like you have it here?

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manton
manton

@terrygrier Check out the new plug-in "Bookshelf shortcode". That makes it possible.

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Annie
Annie

@manton Yes! I love this feature SO much. I've been much more consistent at logging books with it than anything else I've tried.

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heyscottyj
heyscottyj

@manton Ooh lovely! This is super.

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manton
manton

@Annie Thank you!

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navalang
navalang

@manton Hi! Is there a way to include these on the same page, or do they each have to have their own separate page?

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gregmoore
gregmoore

@terrygrier @navalang Micro.blog's built-in system requires separate pages but you can have multiple lists on the same page with the new Bookshelf shortcode plug-in.

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manton
manton

@navalang The built-in feature is 1 per page, but check out the Micro.blog plug-in "Bookshelf shortcode" for a way to include more.

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marramgrass
marramgrass

@manton I love the bookshelves on micro.blog. Have you had any thoughts about including bookshelf activity in the ActivityPub implementation?

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manton
manton

@marramgrass Blogging is going to continue to be the central part of the workflow. So, using the "New Post" button on a book to share the reading status, which will go out via ActivityPub. I'd also like to make those posts work with Bookwyrm.social.

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marramgrass
marramgrass

@manton Makes sense 👍🏻

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@terrygrier there is also @jsonbecker’s plug-in that delivers this kind of page.

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jsonbecker
jsonbecker

@JohnPhilpin actually not my plug-in! But it's kind of surprising it's not, because I built the Bookshop.org short code plug in and have long had a custom bookshelf page that looks quite a bit like the new plug-in.

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@jsonbecker I’m using what you built - aren’t I?

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jonathansick
jonathansick

@manton I love how Micro.blog celebrates books. I've had great conversations around books here. Books and blogs go so well together...

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rickcogley
rickcogley

@manton appreciate the shortcode. I added it to my site which is using Marfa, but it displays bullets on the <li> tags. Any easy way to remove those? https://mikro5.cogley.info/reading/

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jokef
jokef

@rickcogley Same question here, if you find a way let me know ;-)

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sod
sod

@rickcogley The theme's CSS overrides the CSS from the plug-in in your case. One workaround is to add the following to your Custom CSS. Ping @jokef and @kottkrig.

ul.bookshelf.bookshelf li { list-style-type: none !important; }

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jokef
jokef

@sod Perfect, thanks a lot! Tack så mycket!

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rickcogley
rickcogley

@sod much appreciated!

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brendellya@mastodon.online
brendellya@mastodon.online

@manton that's pretty cool. Which plan are you using?

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manton
manton

@brendellya Thanks! My blog uses Micro.blog Premium, but because I created Micro.blog the different plans don't really factor into it. 🙂 The books stuff is included free for everyone, though, even if you don't have an active Micro.blog subscription.

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