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Allow adding books from the list search

Open cincodenada opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I went to add a book to a list that wasn't yet present on my instance, and there was no option to make a wider search/import the book. It would be nice to be able to add books directly from that search box, rather than having to go through and import each book before adding it.

Describe the solution you'd like Optimally, if the book isn't found locally, we'd kick off an OpenLibrary search automatically, like we do with the main search box.

Describe alternatives you've considered It would also be fine to have a button to manually make a wider search, I think. I just realized there's an "Add to List" box on the book search screen, which makes things a little less annoying, but it's still an extra step.

Additional context In this case I'm trying to make a list based on an external source (Alok V. Menon's book reports), where I'm pretty sure none of the books on there are gonna be on my instance already.

cincodenada avatar Jan 22 '22 19:01 cincodenada

Yeah! The thing that will make this a little complicated is that it will combine two things that are usually separate steps (resolving a book search result and adding a book to a list) into two steps, but that certainly can be done.

mouse-reeve avatar Jan 22 '22 23:01 mouse-reeve