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Link to copies of books on the Internet Archive
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Describe the solution you'd like BookWyrm could link directly to copies of books on the Internet Archive whenever they're available, making it much easier for users to start reading or just browse books they're interested in.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Additional context BookWyrm already handles imports from OpenLibrary, & OL records are often linked to IA copies of books, so maybe there's a relatively straightforward way to build this on whatever already exists.
We do have that, but it has to be added manually. But it would be great if an OpenLibrary import automatically found IA copies and added hem to the "get a copy" list
Not sure if each needs a separate issue opened (maybe depending on how much people are into the sites themselves), but additional sources to consider along the same lines could be Project Gutenberg, LibriVox, Standard Ebooks, HathiTrust, & Google Books.
That’s a good idea, but more complex than it might seem on the surface. Those would all be a very different proposition from a technical perspective. We already connect to IA for data, but the others we don’t have existing connectors and in some cases may not permit programmatic access.
I listen audiobooks from https://librivox.org/ by simply coping the RSS link from a specific book & use it on my AntennaPod app.
Can we use the RSS number as unique id to fetch data as mentioned here?
