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[FEATURE_REQUEST] Update data based on OL

Open rYR79435 opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I have added books in OpenReads that didn't have much info on OpenLibrary. It would be nice if OpenReads could re-fetch and update certain/all fields.

Describe the solution you'd like And additional button in the book view (from where you can delete/edit/add to favourites) that would trigger the re-fetch.

Describe alternatives you've considered Currently I just add the same book - with the "fresh" OpenLibrary data - again and then delete the old one. This is a pain because I have to transfer the finished reading date.

rYR79435 avatar May 01 '22 11:05 rYR79435

Hi @rYR79435 thanks for the idea. It would be nice to refetch the data if new is available based on ISBN or Open Library ID. I will check how this can be introduced.

mateusz-bak avatar May 26 '22 23:05 mateusz-bak

Related to this, It would be nice if book cover data could also be fetched from Open Library. When I imported my books from Goodreads, all my books were without cover, so I had to manually re-add them all from OL to get the cover :D

yannjor avatar Jan 30 '24 16:01 yannjor

Related to this, It would be nice if book cover data could also be fetched from Open Library. When I imported my books from Goodreads, all my books were without cover, so I had to manually re-add them all from OL to get the cover :D

Already implemented, waiting for release in 2.4.0. You can download covers for all books that have ISBN set up

mateusz-bak avatar Jan 31 '24 00:01 mateusz-bak