It would be amazing to have an Openlibrary/Goodreads-like app on nostr. We have NIPs for reviews, lists, highlights, comments.. and we can use a custom kind for "currently reading" events. Bookworm devs please do something.
a while a go someone on here were talking about that they were thinking about doing it. don’t remember exactly who
i hope they do it 🙏 i'd zap them hard, i need it and don't have the time to work on it myself 😓
it would be a nice option to not use goodreads etc
don’t get me wrong,i like goodreads but would like to see other similar options of it - preferably open source
i'm a fan of OpenLibrary. their dataset is open source and editable and has similar features to Goodreads but not quite the same. i want the functionality of both based on OpenLibrary's dataset.
i’ve never really looked into OpenLibrary. as non dev, what i like about goodreads is the functionality of finding indie books no one has ever heard of in other languages than English, Spanish etc which i haven’t been able to find anywhere else unfortunately.
but it seems like maybe with OpenLibrary you may be able to add books that don’t exist - but i have no idea how OpenLibrary actually works. i might have to look more into it.
what are the pros and cons of using OpenLibrary vs Goodreads?
Openlibrary FTW. I'm wondering if creating everything from the scratch is the way to go? Foranyy idea out there, not just this one.
Imagine Openlibrary integrating Nostr instead!
> Imagine Openlibrary integrating Nostr instead!
This! I think the way to go is to tap into OpenLibrary's open dataset and add "social" features on top using nostr. Activity about a book/author can tag OpenLibrary's ID so other clients can look up what the events are about. Or we could even publish OpenLibrary's data to nostr.
I feel there's a few things like this I would just want to keep as is and the existing community. Eg the amazing Freesound, librivox, archivedotorg etc... adding a nostr social/donate function to it would be great and would make total sense
Goodreads will be a byproduct of Communities of people reading, highlighting, zapping and uploading (!!!) books: nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp22rfmsktmgpk2rtan7zwu00zuzax5maq5dnsu5g3xxvqr2u3pd7qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qqsrd9q3qrlvjs24cdezsqsx0krat29e22n9m8a4ygf0977k6wwgn0gc0sutl
This is being built ✅
woah this is pretty cool, i need it 😻
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