Tracking of book reading

[n00b12345]

Book tracking, i.e. tracking progress of books/read/unread books etc. would be really nice to have. Would you consider adding book reading/tracking as a feature?

Watcharr tracks everything else, books are the only thing missing :)

[IRHM]

Hah you are right, I hadn't thought of books. I'm definitely open to adding support.

Just need to find a database with a free api we can use and It should hopefully be straightforward enough to integrate it in alongside everything else.

Hope to get to this soon for you.

[n00b12345]

Hah you are right, I hadn't thought of books. I'm definitely open to adding support.

Just need to find a database with a free api we can use and It should hopefully be straightforward enough to integrate it in alongside everything else.

Hope to get to this soon for you.

Thank you so much for your consideration.

"Competing" projects like Media Tracker or Jelu use Open Library (free API is available) to fetch metadata related to books. This includes things like title, author, covers, description etc. Although not directly related, Calibre and Calibre-web also use Open Library to fetch all kinds of metadata related to books.

I hope this helps a little :)

[reitenth]

i would also like to see manga which u could get from anilist/myanimelist

[reitenth]

any update on manga support?

[IRHM]

@reitenth I haven't started work on this yet, if nothing pressing comes up, I will likely try working on this for the next version (after current one in dev is released).

One thing I will have to take into consideration is how OpenLibrary and AniList (I don't think MAL has an api to access manga data) data will work together.

It seems like OpenLibrary does have manga, which I think would be confusing when mixed with AniList manga in the same results (when searching, or possibly in your watched list).

The only solution I can think of right now for search, would be to never combine books/manga in the main (combined) search and only allow search for Books (OpenLibrary) or Manga (AniList) separately, with the search filters.

I will likely implement both together so that I can make sure they work nicely in the same world.

[n00b12345]

I wanted to add a few details so that it might help. A few days back I built a tool for tracking books using ChatGPT. This is what it looks like. It uses PostgreSQL tables in the backend and is being served from a basic nginx server.

This is the welcome page (nothing is editable here):

This is the "My Books" page which lists all books (including books which have been read and which are yet to be read):

The My Books page also has a drop down menu which can sort books:

This is the To Read section:

This is the Add Books section (I have not used any API and this is very basic):

The options in the form change when you add a book that you have already read.

This is the stats section (you can sort books that you have read by the year):

This is the search page:

This is the progress page where you can set goals and set reading progress which is then reflected on the welcome page:

When you tap on a book cover anywhere, this is the viewing page that you are taken to:

The names of the author and tags are all links that then open to their respective pages:

When you tap on edit, this is the editing option that you get:

The options change based on the reading status:

These are the optimised pages for mobile:

I am not a developer and I only generated these using ChatGPT, but I hope some of this helps. If not, sorry :)