Synchronization with other platforms

[xplosionmind]

There are many issues (#80, #104, #532, #582, and more) that request the option of importing and/or exporting to other book-focused platforms, among them GoodReads, Bookwyrm, Open Library, and, of course, Inventaire.

Suppose a user has one account on more than one of those platforms (most of us), and they wants to add a book they just bought. Every single time this happens, they would have to go to every platform and import the book.

In a dream world (the one this issue aims to get to), you add your book to a platform and it automatically synchronizes with the others.

Synchronization would include:

• book metadata
• reading statuses
  • started reading
  • currently reading
  • finished reading
  • paused (or stopped reading)
• collections (a.k.a. shelves)
• ???

Is this utopistic idea something feasible?

I opened this same issue for Bookwyrm, and for Open Library