Triple ⁂After a big period of disenchantment regarding what became the web, I’ve started discovering more and more great projects being made today that gave me some hope back in the open web.
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The last one of these projects is https://inventaire.io/ , a social media where one lists the books they have in their personal library and is keen to lend or even give. It’s like building a decentralized library network.
We are no so many people in Berlin, please join us so we can lend each others books!
For the type community, it could be interesting for people to list who has this rare specimen or un-findable book. Just saying.
Dan Reynolds@triple A couple of us have our items listed on LibraryThing! https://www.librarything.com/
Nick Sherman@typeoff @triple As @morningtype mentioned, I’m also on LibraryThing (https://www.librarything.com/catalog/nicksherman) which powers my TinyCat library – essentially a different view of the same content (https://www.librarycat.org/lib/nicksherman).
I wish I could move to @inventaire because I love its focus on open tech/info. Plus, in addition to Amazon’s partial ownership of LibraryThing, that system has some longstanding UX annoyances, as discussed by @typographica, @onpaperwings, and others here:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/343435
However …
@typeoff @triple @morningtype @typographica @onpaperwings … After testing @inventaire there are unfortunately still some issues that make it a non-starter for me:
1) No tags (I use over 300 on LibraryThing)
2) Can’t enter imprecise publication dates, like “circa”
3) Can’t use standard bibliographic notation (e.g. brackets around info that’s known but not transcribed directly) for many fields
4) No structured way to record size/dimensions
5) Or when/where a book was acquired
6) Or multiple copies
1) No tags (I use over 300 on LibraryThing)
2) Can’t enter imprecise publication dates, like “circa”
3) Can’t use standard bibliographic notation (e.g. brackets around info that’s known but not transcribed directly) for many fields
4) No structured way to record size/dimensions
5) Or when/where a book was acquired
6) Or multiple copies
Doug Wilson@nicksherman Thank you for investigating this so I don’t have to!