Congrats on launching :)
I suggest you add a 'detail' view so that:
- each book has its own URL (which can be shared), and
- mobile users can easily see the external links (which are hard to see in a list view on a narrow screen)
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At the moment, I've included audiobooks from popular sources like Librivox, Project Gutenberg, and Lit2Go.
I'm open to suggestions on additional free audiobook sources I could integrate into the site to expand the collection!
I suggest you add a 'detail' view so that:
- each book has its own URL (which can be shared), and
- mobile users can easily see the external links (which are hard to see in a list view on a narrow screen)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Langs%27_Fairy_Books
From WP though: 'authors, including E. Nesbit, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle, were influenced by the Langs' books. J. R. R. Tolkien wrote that "In English none probably rival either the popularity, or the inclusiveness, or the general merits of the twelve books of twelve colours which we owe to Andrew Lang and to his wife."
Actually had a somewhat of tale of their own in publishing.
'Although Andrew is often credited with selecting the stories in the Fairy Books, most of the work was done by Nora. Nora and a team of other writers, who were mostly women and included May Kendall and Violet Hunt, translated these into English and adapted them to suit Victorian and Edwardian notions of propriety. However, as Andrew acknowledges in a preface to The Lilac Fairy Book (1910), "The fairy books have been almost wholly the work of Mrs. Lang, who has translated and adapted them from the French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, and other languages."'
One site which does work well for this (for textual books) and which is well-regarded is:
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/subjects.html
which uses the LoC identifier for a given text.
A project which past me wanted for future me was to read one book from each LoC category, and then to repeat that for sub-categories --- young me did that for the Dewey Decimal system for the high school library, but there were a number of gaps in the collection, and at that time, I didn't have the discipline or resources to make note of them so as to source books from other book repositories.
For example, you can query using only the first letter, so it's quite easy to quickly cache their entire collection (please don't give them the HN hug of death):
https://librivox.org/ ... api/feed/audiobooks/author/^a
Of course, specify json or something closer to your internal data structures.
She's Ruth Golding btw. https://librivox.org/reader/2607?primary_key=2607&search_cat...
I could add a feature to allow for audio recording rating in the future. It would be helpful since some audio recordings can be of poor quality.
My personal use I aim to solve is getting accurate lists of the top rated books for a given genre and perhaps before a given year. I've been listening to lots of audio books recently, yet I only have so much time so I am aiming to only listen to the best.
I wanted to see how many modern books it has (Gutenberg etc. is valuable, but often I'd prefer modern writing), but it says that eg. Shelley's "A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays" is from 2006. Shelley died at least a few years before 2006. Maybe the year is the recording date?
If so, that's not that useful to me, I'd want to see the date of the work, not the recording.