Bookwyrm integration

[xplosionmind]

Integrate Inventaire with Bookwyrm, a wonderful, federated, and open source Good Reads alternative.

[maxlath]

Could you elaborate on the kind of integration you would like to see? How could that work in concrete terms regarding the different Bookwyrm instances?

[xplosionmind]

• Being able to synchronize possessed books;
• Synchronize read/to read/reading status
• Link Bookwyrm and Inventaire profiles

[jum-s]

Relying on Activitypub to synchronize reviews could also make sense. Bookwyrm outbox displays reviews of books. The key inReplyTo have a book link which can be extended by a .json which reveals an ISBN13 key.
From there we could imagine to synchronize an inventaire user account with a bookwyrm user account, and go fetch some reviews
Remark: an inventaire link is displayed on some book pages

[mouse-reeve]

Remark: an inventaire link is displayed on every book page

Where available -- books added manually or via OpenLibrary may not have this. You can see it in the book json (https://bookwyrm.social/book/131242.json) under the inventaireId key.

[xplosionmind]

Now that Inventaire is integrated with ActivityPub, integrating Bookwyrm is going to be easier!

[jum-s]

One problem lies on the search at the instance level (aka how to know which instance should be searched).

Im curious to know if bookwyrm development would consider a centralized search, in order to fetch reviews (Im thinking of a solution a la Peertube with their https://sepiasearch.org).

On a more decentralized level, it looks like bookwyrm users are able to search for books from other instances, are those instances referenced like mastodon does (aka following someone on another unknown instance automatically reference this instance, and all those instances will be requested each time someone search for an isbn)? If this is the case, then 1/ Im fearing it would be a lot of requests across the network for a centralized system like inventaire 2/ we would need to implement such a follow feature before any further moves toward a search-reviews-by-isbn direction, right?

[mouse-reeve]

Other instances are currently discovered (and added to book search) when a a user searches for or follows a user on that instance. I definitely think having a centralized book search is worth considering, but I'd need to think more about what that would mean technically and in terms of keeping bookwyrm decentralized overall.

[AutomCoding]

We could use the list at joinbookwyrm.com, but it looks like it is maintained manually. Their repository also contain this file that has more entries.