David Cantrell 🏏I'm also looking for a replacement for #Readerware for cataloguing my #library. Must be a desktop app for Mac, and ideally have a Linux version too. Must not be a web app (sorry #Koha!). Must import/export data in a reasonably open format. Ideally it will "auto-catalogue" by grabbing data about ISBNs from the intertubes. Ideally it will support audio and video media as well as books. Ideally there will be a companion iOS app it can sync with. It can be payware provided there is no subscription.
Alaric Snell-Pym@DrHyde I also kinda want something like that ❤️
@kitten_tech well, if no-one suggests anything, consider Readerware. It's recently stopped reliably looking stuff up on the intertubes, and it has a rather, umm, "agèd" user interface, but aside from that it's good.
Jess Robinson@DrHyde yup i'd like ones of those too.. I have goodreads, and my movies as two separate stores currently..
@castaway one of these years I'll probably write my own
@DrHyde the "getting data" part feels like it'd be a pain in the butt tho..
@castaway There's the #OpenLibrary API where you can search by ISBN <https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=isbn:9789991849140>, author <https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=author:Jòansson,Tòrður>, or title <https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=title:die%20portugiesische%20k%C3%BCche> and probably other fields too. It falls down on support for some works with multiple authors, such as a writer and an illustrator, and it doesn't show what language something is in, but that's just the first decent source I found and neither of those are absolute showstoppers for me.
@castaway I'm not familiar with Flutter, but something that using Electron, for example, would be just fine.
Yes but.. Electron (aka yet another web browser instance..)