Gutenberg Integration Improvements

[dastardlyfinger323]

Discussed in #69

Include a toggle in the Library for viewing popular and random books atop the latest added, and increase the number of books fetched to at least 10 pages instead of 2 ("infinite" would be ideal).
OR
Have the Library display the most frequently downloaded books/authors for that day/week/month, and then add toggles to the Search for random, popular, and recently added books.

[tux-linux]

Hi, these are good ideas, but unfortunately probably very hard to implement as we rely solely on regular expressions to parse Gutenberg catalog. You can have a look here and see for yourself:
https://github.com/Kobo-InkBox/rootfs/tree/master/usr/local/bin/gutenberg
As far as I can see, the csv catalog does not provide information for most popular books.

[Szybet]

Lol this method is cursed and is a meme

Jokes aside, there are libraries to parse html in a way like json - very convenient. So the problem is not "It's not possible" the problem is there is no people and time for that

[tux-linux]

Well, it's not parsing HTML, it's parsing CSV (thankfully)

[Szybet]

Thats's even worse, csv is a cool database format

[marzagheddon]

what about removing Project Gutemberg integration enterely? It doesn't make sense to have a botched implementation

[Szybet]

We plan to implement OPDS in the far future for a replacement