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Apropos #Koreader Plugins: Eigentlich wollte ich meinen Lesefortschritt auf #Goodreads posten. Doch Goodreads hat wohl schon vor einiger Zeit die API abgeschaltet. Als Alternative fand ich nach kurzer Suche #hardcoverapp. Dafür gibt es eine API und ein Koreader plugin. Außerdem gibt es einen goodreads importer. Dies machte den Umzug sehr einfach. Bonus: Den Goodreads Account konnte ich auch schliessen. (Ja, auch Goodreads gehört zu Amazon)
https://hardcover.app/blog/why
5/7
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Apropos #Koreader Plugins: Eigentlich wollte ich meinen Lesefortschritt auf #Goodreads posten. Doch Goodreads hat wohl schon vor einiger Zeit die API abgeschaltet. Als Alternative fand ich nach kurzer Suche #hardcoverapp. Dafür gibt es eine API und ein Koreader plugin. Außerdem gibt es einen goodreads importer. Dies machte den Umzug sehr einfach. Bonus: Den Goodreads Account konnte ich auch schliessen. (Ja, auch Goodreads gehört zu Amazon)
https://hardcover.app/blog/why
5/7
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Oh yeah,
so I got the urge to get back on #Fable (https://fable.co/rae-a-shell-385547252211 )
but I also found out about #HardCoverApp
and of course I'm still on Storygraph
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/lapis
not pinning this (Yet) because I have not figured out how to organize pinned tabs in the new pin profile layout (thanks Website Boy :blobugh: )
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I've released v0.3.0 of Autocaliweb – an web management platform for ebooks and a fork of Calibre-Web and CWA.
The release includes the possibility to sync reading progress to @hardcover and the possibility to choose as a User if the Kobo Plus tab and/or Overdrive tab should be activated or not.
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I've released v0.3.0 of Autocaliweb – an web management platform for ebooks and a fork of Calibre-Web and CWA.
The release includes the possibility to sync reading progress to @hardcover and the possibility to choose as a User if the Kobo Plus tab and/or Overdrive tab should be activated or not.
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I joined #HardcoverApp 📕 (@hardcover) a few days ago, imported all of my #Goodreads data, and as a #Bookworm, I'm super impressed! It didn't take me long to decide to become a paid supporter. 🤗 It's completely free, but you can become a supporter for some extra goodies.
If you're looking for a Goodreads or #StoryGraph alternative, do check out #Hardcover! Here is my profile:
https://hardcover.app/@leonivek?referrer_id=11668
Disclaimer: the link above is referral link and will help get me a free month
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I joined #HardcoverApp 📕 (@hardcover) a few days ago, imported all of my #Goodreads data, and as a #Bookworm, I'm super impressed! It didn't take me long to decide to become a paid supporter. 🤗 It's completely free, but you can become a supporter for some extra goodies.
If you're looking for a Goodreads or #StoryGraph alternative, do check out #Hardcover! Here is my profile:
https://hardcover.app/@leonivek?referrer_id=11668
Disclaimer: the link above is referral link and will help get me a free month
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My newest discovery at an alternative to #Goodreads.
Hardcover - Social discovery for serious book lovers https://hardcover.app/
Any other Fediverse users out there on #HardcoverApp?
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In 1 hour at 12pm PST my Hardcover cofounder Ste and I will be going live to catch up on the holidays, talk about how the 2023 Year in Books launch went and plan out the new format for our show.
Tune in and chat. 🥳
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In 1 hour at 12pm PST my Hardcover cofounder Ste and I will be going live to catch up on the holidays, talk about how the 2023 Year in Books launch went and plan out the new format for our show.
Tune in and chat. 🥳
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Yesterday we published The Hardcover 2023 Year in Books. It's a look at the most popular books of the year across genres, trends, months and more.
A number of the authors featured have a presence here on Mastodon! We left the other site ourselves in 2023, and love to see more authors here.
I wanted to create a thread to callout a few of them that have released new books that were popular with the Hardcover community.
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Yesterday we published The Hardcover 2023 Year in Books. It's a look at the most popular books of the year across genres, trends, months and more.
A number of the authors featured have a presence here on Mastodon! We left the other site ourselves in 2023, and love to see more authors here.
I wanted to create a thread to callout a few of them that have released new books that were popular with the Hardcover community.
1/x
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Teaser screen from the 2023 Year in Books we're releasing tomorrow (!). We have 36 full-page cards like this, each with one or many books in a category, timeframe or theme.
I have a feeling the pixelation won't hide too much from heavy science fiction readers 😂
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Teaser screen from the 2023 Year in Books we're releasing tomorrow (!). We have 36 full-page cards like this, each with one or many books in a category, timeframe or theme.
I have a feeling the pixelation won't hide too much from heavy science fiction readers 😂
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Writing up requirements for the next few months of work on Hardcover. One of the things I'm most excited about is Discussions - but there are about a dozen pre-reqs to work towards first based on our user interviews.
One is getting a list of characters and chapters for each book.
Even knowing a characters is in a book can be a spoiler (if they're now alive for example).
We do something similar with genres, tags and moods - where each one can be marked as a spoiler.
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Writing up requirements for the next few months of work on Hardcover. One of the things I'm most excited about is Discussions - but there are about a dozen pre-reqs to work towards first based on our user interviews.
One is getting a list of characters and chapters for each book.
Even knowing a characters is in a book can be a spoiler (if they're now alive for example).
We do something similar with genres, tags and moods - where each one can be marked as a spoiler.
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Next week on Christmas, we're releasing the "2023 Year in Books" on Hardcover - a celebration of the most read books of the year, breakdown of trends, most popular authors and much more.
We're trying something fun for this - sending out stickers to authors who are featured. 😂
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Next week on Christmas, we're releasing the "2023 Year in Books" on Hardcover - a celebration of the most read books of the year, breakdown of trends, most popular authors and much more.
We're trying something fun for this - sending out stickers to authors who are featured. 😂
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This graph shows the last 2 months of Hardcover Traffic. We're still at the "Just throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks" point in marketing. 😂
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This graph shows the last 2 months of Hardcover Traffic. We're still at the "Just throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks" point in marketing. 😂
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Fun feature today for Hardcover: show your progress on lists!
When looking at any list, we’ll show how many books on it you’ve read. Click to toggle between count and percentage.
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Fun feature today for Hardcover: show your progress on lists!
When looking at any list, we’ll show how many books on it you’ve read. Click to toggle between count and percentage.
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We're launching Hardcover ( https://hardcover.app ) on ProductHunt today!
Hardcover is a book tracking social network for readers to track what you read, find life-changing books, and make lasting connections.
We've been building for just over two and half years, and it's exciting to reach this point.
I'd love to invite you to check out our launch and support us! Todays a great day to give us a shot. 😉
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We're launching Hardcover ( https://hardcover.app ) on ProductHunt today!
Hardcover is a book tracking social network for readers to track what you read, find life-changing books, and make lasting connections.
We've been building for just over two and half years, and it's exciting to reach this point.
I'd love to invite you to check out our launch and support us! Todays a great day to give us a shot. 😉
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Imported my #Libby history into #GoodReads, so I can import THAT into #HardcoverApp @hardcover
Had to fiddle a bit with the CSV file as GR marks anything not otherwise marked when importing, and that messes up my read count.
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Finally getting to work on the new #book page for #hardcoverapp . One area we’re trying to understand and hit on is social validation of books.
One of the simplest is showing which of the people you follow have read the book you’re looking at. Here’s The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.
Still todo: only show comment icon if they wrote a review.
We’ll probably show a handful of reviews by readers with the highest similarity score to you as well - that way the reviews are targeted to you.
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Me, upgrading Hardcover to Next.js 13’s new App Router. #nextjs #react #hardcoverapp
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Designing a user-sourced book data system that’s difficult to spam, automatically heals from bad data, and relies on data from APIs with humans filling in the gaps is a difficult (but fun) problem.
That’s the approach we’re thinking of using for Hardcover. Rather than having librarians (roles with special access), it’d be closer to Wikipedia with automoderators to prevent and rollback bad activity. That’s the goal at least. 🤞
Has anyone built anything similar?
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I had some fun this morning building out an idea from Ste on the Hardcover team: Ask Jules - an Open AI-powered bot for finding books.
The #OpenAI #Node library was a breeze to implement, and the results ended up being OK - not the greatest.
The trickiest part was getting ISBNs in a format to parse out and query our database with. That allows saving books to your Want to Read list from there.
Interested to see what people think about it.
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After spending multiple days last week, I finally made a breakthrough on the #HardcoverApp #iOS app!
Turns out that in order to submit it to the App store I needed to build it from the command line and not from Xcode 🤦♂️.
This is a Capacitor App that wraps a website. Previously, Cordova wasn't being bundled into the app, which broke in-app purchases.
The way I learn best seems to be by making every possible mistake. At least when I do find the correct solution I know exactly why it worked. 😅
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I wasn't sold on JSX as a templating language at first, but the more I use it, the more it's grown on me.
Today I'm working on adding iOS subscriptions to #hardcoverapp – something required for the iOS store.
While adding some toast messages with react-toastify ( https://fkhadra.github.io/react-toastify/introduction ), I realized I needed HTML.
Usually, I'd look into passing an option for `html: true` or something like that.
But this is JSX. You just pass in a component and it'll render. 🥳 Still retraining my brain.
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After 17 months of work on #hardcoverapp with the team, we finally submitted the #iOS app for approval yesterday!
We've been iterating the mobile version of the website for months and yesterday I was able to use it on my phone for the first time.
The feeling of using it as an app after months of work was incredibly rewarding. Can't wait to get this out into the world and see what more people think.
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I'm unsure how I used to write transactional emails without Mailcatcher.
Combined with Active Admin to easily trigger these previews it's been a breeze to write this end-of-year email for #hardcoverapp in #ruby .