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Re: Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

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Post by stopachka »

riezebos wrote: post #49

Nice work! This looks like an interesting product. I was trying to create a bookshelf with a bunch of books I liked. I have a strong aversion to manual work, and didn't want to continue after a few books because it took multiple seconds to add a book. In case you are interested in users like me this might help: - Allow selecting multiple books in 1 search results - Don't show books that are already in the shelf in th…

Thanks for the kind words and feedback riezebos!

re: improve speed -- great ideas. Will note and see what we can do!

re: renaming shelf getting linked -- uhoh, sounds like a bug -- will look into this!.

Re: Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

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Post by stopachka »

geoah wrote: post #47
geoah wrote: post #46

Congrats on the launch! Some comments/requests/suggestions (from a goodreads user): * For me the main benefit of goodreads is their book suggestions. From what I can tell it's pretty naive but being able to see suggestions that I might enjoy based on my reading history, and also being able to see suggested books based on a single book or author is amazing. * Read dates (and support for multiple read throughs) would b…

Also, was looking at the PUT /library request being made when you add a book. The body looks really weird, is that some weird framework? ["^ ","~:shelves",[["^ ","~:desc","","~:name","Science Fiction","~:books",[["^ ","~:id", ... edit: apparently this is "transit JSON" https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

It’s one of the clojure stack staples xD — would highly suggest checking out the language if you haven’t yet, it’s a lot of fun.

Re: Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

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Post by stopachka »

geoah wrote: post #46

Congrats on the launch! Some comments/requests/suggestions (from a goodreads user): * For me the main benefit of goodreads is their book suggestions. From what I can tell it's pretty naive but being able to see suggestions that I might enjoy based on my reading history, and also being able to see suggested books based on a single book or author is amazing. * Read dates (and support for multiple read throughs) would b…

This is great feedback geoah, thank you! We’ll note and prioritize.

Would love to learn more about tracking re-reads. Do you have an ideal ux in mind?

Re: Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books

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Post by Jzeitz »

I really like this! I'm going to build my library soon. I was totally sold at the idea of finding one place to see the Bill Gates or the Naval recommended lists. I started building something similar with Django for fun a while back. What made you choose the Google Books API? Are you cacheing anything?
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