Ever since my PhD contract has ended last month, I have been going through my personal project backlog, including this very Mastodon account and actually making progress on my personal website.

Yesterday, I was thinking what to do about my Goodreads account when I discovered @bookwyrm and by proxy @OpenLibrary and @inventaire ! Obviously, I am now on bookwyrm.social.

Because my Goodreads shelves are a mess, many of my books can't be imported automatically, including some japanese light novels and web serials. The latter, I've never really bothered to track outside of dedicated websites (novelupdates, ao3, fanfiction.net) because of how difficult it is.

Big question for people in the know and #librarians, is there a database of web serials or am I doomed to add my books manually (or programmatically)?

#bookwyrm #openlibrary #inventaireio

Open Library volunteers like Nazar Kotsur 👨‍💻 work behind the scenes every day.

From tracking Ukrainian books that aren’t yet online to improving access via Wikisource, his work keeps culture from disappearing.

Learn more 👇 https://blog.openlibrary.org/2026/03/24/featuring-nazar-kotsur-tracking-ukrainian-books-missing-from-the-digital-commons/

#DigitalPreservation #OpenLibrary #BooksForAll

I might have said this earlier but worth repeating. DuckDB is freaking amazing! Today I worked on a 56G TSV file containing 55 million rows of JSON serialized documents (all of OpenLibrary editions).

I can query this file including filtering on nested JSON structures and most queries complete in a few dozen seconds worst case, but I can also create derived indexes to bring down query times to milliseconds.

All in memory on an M1 Mac with 64GB RAM.

#DuckDB #OpenLibrary #BigData

current books flow:
book ➡️ track on #LibraryThing

future maybe:
book ➡️ update data on #OpenLibrary ➡️ import book OL data into #BookWyrm ➡️ track on BookWyrm

why:
- simpler tracking site with less features seems less stressful. read more, online less (BW)
- supports open source projects (BW, OL)
- public data helps everyone (OL)

why I haven't switched yet:
- love LibraryThing's features: full edition control, stats, recs, data, etc.

plan: try the new flow for a while, then decide... 

Kulturbeigeordneter Silvio Horn: „Mit der schrittweisen Einführung der #OpenLibrary gehen wir einen wichtigen Weg, unsere Stadtbibliothek weiter #zukunftsfähig zu machen. Lesen, Lernen und Austausch sollen nicht an Servicezeiten gebunden sein. So schaffen wir mehr #Flexibilität und machen die Bibliothek für unsere Bürgerinnen und Bürger noch zugänglicher und moderner.“

Ein großartiges Projekt mit visionärer Strahlkraft und für uns ein ganz besonderes Herzensprojekt.🥰

https://rb.gy/trcoqm

Question for #Bookstodon ....

I'm looking to migrate away from Goodreads (luckily I didn't get too far into using it).

Hoping for something very open/non-corporate.

Thoughts on #Bookwyrm vs #Openlibrary ?

Bookwyrm seems to be missing a lot of books. And the work to add them seems a waste when I can go upstream to OpenLibrary. OL lacks the social features but Bookwyrm seems very uh... basic & kinda ugly. 🤔

#reading #books

hmm when there is a book in #Openlibrary (to add it to #bookwyrm) but I only find the english edition but not the german (which also has a different ISBN -- should I add it as a separate book?

This time even the german an english title are the same.

Me ayudáis a dejar Goodreads?

Veo que soléis usar Openreads, Openlibrary y Bookwyrm.
Mi intención es usarlo como hasta ahora Goodreads, llevar un control de los libros que voy leyendo, de los libros que quiero leer, escribir alguna opinión de alguno que me haya gustado y leer las opiniones de los demás.
Doy por hecho que tendré que crear muchas fichas de libros sea donde sea. Pero cual sería el más similar? Creo que sería Bookwyrm por lo que he leído.
Y si es Bookwyrm, necesito meterme en una instancia de España, para poder leer las opiniones de los libros que vayan publicando aquí o están federados como mastodon?
La verdad que estoy liado así que os agradezco la ayuda que me podáis dar, y así hacer las cosas más o menos bien desde el principio y no tener que estar cambiando.

#libros #literatura #goodreads #bookwyrm #openreads #openlibrary

Auch die @zlb_berlin hat eine #OAI-Schnittstelle ... mal sehen, was darüber so verfügbar ist. Eine Beschreibung konnte ich nicht finden. Hier der Endpunkt: https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/oai
#api #openlibrary

Und auch auf Wikidata verzeichnet: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189928#P6269