I believe there are some BookWyrm users here, that’s why I’m trying to (mis)use this community as a support forum.

In the latest Fediverse rush I’ve created a BookWyrm account and imported my GoodReads data. Some of the books in my library are pretty niche, had to be imported from OpenLibrary and don’t have a cover picture. So I made a cover photo for one of them and uploaded it to BookWyrm and OpenLibrary.

Now I’m wondering… Is book data entered into BookWyrm contributed back to OpenLibrary? Does anyone use OpenLibrary? OpenLibrary seems to offer pretty much what BookWyrm offers sans the federation. Still, it seems like a good and open project, and being hosted by archive.org and having been co-created by Aaron Swartz. Now I’m on the fence what to use. :-)

  • LerajeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    If I’m referring people to a book I always use a link to its OpenLibrary entry. If I’m discussing a book, I do it on the Bookwyrm instance I’m on.

    In short - use both :)

    • Schnaftator@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      At the moment I tend to view OpenLibrary as the canonical information source. Fair enough, then I have to answer the question for myself whether I actually need the discussion features that BookWyrm adds.

  • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Was not aware these things existed! Thanks for bringing them up!

    Will have a look at bookwyrm.

  • bbbhltz@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I am going to make a guess, based on using both platforms, that things entered into BookWyrm is not contributed back to OL.

    Also, I didn’t know that OL was a Swartz co-creation. Thanks for that info.

  • bird@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I just joined BookWyrm and imported my Goodreads data. I’m just getting back into reading, so I’m excited to try it out!

    I’m currently reading Recursion by Blake Crouch. I like it a lot so far!

  • tcit@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    BookWyrm does not contribute back to OpenLibrary (it’s an upstream source). If you want to contribute to book data, OL is the place. BW is for users.

    BW also uses data from https://inventaire.io which is (almost entirely) based on Wikidata, which is nice as well.