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Openreads (media.mstdn.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Openreads
Private and Open Source Books Tracker

Keep track of your books with @openreads a privacy-oriented and open-source Android app written in Flutter.

Organize your books into four categories:
- Finished
- In progress
- For later
- Unfinished
+ Use custom tags and filters

Add books by searching the Open Library, scanning barcodes, or entering details manually

Download: https://github.com/mateusz-bak/openreads-android/releases

#FOSS #Android #Privacy #OpenSource #Flutter #Books #ReadingList #BookTracker @books #Reading

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm waiting for the Bookwyrm integration: https://github.com/mateusz-bak/openreads-android/issues/96

Unfortunately there's no API in Bookwyrm yet: https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/issues/785

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is bookwyrm just federated goodreads?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Pretty much, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@kiddblur Kinda, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there’s no API in Bookwyrm yet lol wut? Interesting decision there...

One would think their UI uses an API to connect to the backend...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Chris means there's no public API nor any documentation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So, there's one, but it's undocumented. I see.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

What do you mean private and open source? How does that work?

Edit: my bad I misunderstood the meaning of private in this context. Ignore my dumb ass lol.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

It's an app whose source code you can access so it is open source and it only stores your data locally without communicating with any servers so it is private.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Privacy-oriented. Meaning it doesn't collect and share your data with companies that would like to sell you books, tv, news, movies, music, and ideologies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are those mutually exclusive? The code is open source, and your added books are private. This is presumably a goodreads without the social aspect.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@Adamzen @ssboomman Just to clarify, Openreads is not a book or a book reader, but rather a book reading tracker. With Openreads, your reading data and statistics are kept private to you. Additionally, the app is open-source, which means that you can verify its privacy features by examining the source code. You can even build your own version of the app or contribute to its development if you wish. I hope this helps clarify things!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@foss_android @Adamzen @ssboomman it would be useful an integration within Librera app (open source ebook reader).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Is there any benefit to this over Calibre-Web? Having OPDS for book hosting is a big thing, but beyond that, what's better?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

!!!! LOVE FOSS!!! Will check it out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@foss_android @openreads @books lovely app, I've been using it for a year now and wouldn't want to do without it. Useful for adding books on the fly when suggested, rather than writing titles down only to forget them!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Heck yeah! Thank you so much! I can keep my data? Yes please

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, I have never used a book tracker, indeed I haven't read many stuff, but I am intending to... Indeed the "Reddit apocalypse" was one of the major detonators to made me want to achieve this... But a wild Lemmy appeared.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Most indeedidly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

how do you prove ownership of a book what?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like it could be a nice alternative to Goodreads, I'll check it out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

With no Goodreads import it's not worth the hassle sadly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@foss_android @openreads @books This looks really cool, but I always worry about the longevity of things like this. I don't want to move all my library deets across for it to fold in a year or two. Sorry if that seems disrespectful but I've been burned before. Or am I being silly?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@JoeyPajamas @foss_android @books
Your worries are perfectly fine. I would say that being open source is what makes Openreads so great. The app is licensed as GPLv2 so everyone can use it and modify it forever. Not like other proprietary apps that the second they stop making profit can be closed with no option to migrate to any other service.