Usefulness of Bookwyrm over Open Library? - eviltoast
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Open Library (not activitypub compatible) is an ISBN database type service. But, it also has reading list/want to read/book review and rating features. So, my question is from a features standpoint and index standpoint (number of books indexed), which is better?

  • emerald@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    IIRC bookwyrm lets you search openlibrary for books if they’re not known by your server or some well-known instances like bookwyrm.social

    • Safipok@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Like that’s my point, why not just use Open library at that state?

      • emerald@beehaw.org
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        8 months ago

        Mostly for the federated bits I assume. Being able to follow people’s bookwyrm accounts from your other socials is an interesting idea, though I don’t know how often it actually happens in practice. If that stuff doesn’t interest you then yeah just use OL directly ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

        • Safipok@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Thanks, I was wondering if there was any feature/index issues. Since there doesn’t seem to be any, I will use OL. Appreciate the reply.