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jasonpbecker ◴[] No.21973446[source]
Goodreads is desperately in need of a strong competitor.
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1. teah10 ◴[] No.21975169[source]
If someone sets out to build a Goodreads competitor, what's everyone's suggestion on how to aggregate book / ISBN / poster reference data? Google Books API comes to mind but I am wondering if there is a self-hosted solution.
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2. OldHand2018 ◴[] No.21976629[source]
Sure, you can just download the OpenLibrary dataset:

https://openlibrary.org/developers/dumps

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3. klt39429 ◴[] No.21977385[source]
woah this is great. Thank you!