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BTW I was able to consistently repro that link not loading. I made a couple changes and it seems to be loading now. Want to try again? Lmk if it still fails for you

thank you! I'm not planning on making the code available rn, but I definitely want to make it easier for people who don't use Goodreads to use Project TBR. Thanks for letting me know about bookrastinating, I will look into it

if you have an Android, then you'll need to go to Goodreads on your browser, bc the Goodreads Android app doesn't have a way to get a link to your profile as far as I could tell.

If you have an iPhone there's a little snippet of instructions on the home page of projecttbr.com (it's not visible when you look at the example I linked to)

oh yeah I think it's the same for the other person too -- theirs is set to only be visible to Goodreads users

yeah I definitely want this to work for other "lists" of books and other goodreads shelves is a good idea!

And oooops fixed that bug :) thanks for letting me know

thank you!!

thanks so much!!

awesome! Thanks for the info, I'll look into this

thank you!! So glad to hear that. I hadn't thought of doing that, but will definitely consider it!

Thank you both for the links!! I’ll look into this

Nope lol. Can you give me an example of a search that shows physical book availability? I’d definitely be interested in figuring out how they do it bc it seems like people are interested in this!

Thank you! Agreed, it’s awesome!

I also often buy books! Especially if I really like the book or the author. I don’t think this is an unpopular opinion.

I don’t think that borrowing from the library supports the author in some way you don’t know about — it shows interest in the book and leads to copies being purchased but buying the book directly definitely seems like it would have a bigger impact. But borrowing from the library does support the library! And libraries can be really great for their communities :)

Thanks! I hadn’t heard of open library before but it seems pretty cool - what’s an open library list? Are you also able to track books you’re interested in there?

Thanks so much for the feedback! Those are good ideas.

And thanks for sharing the link where it failed to load books! I’m going to try and figure out what’s going on with that so the link is helpful

The API I'm using searches all libraries that use Libby/overdrive (https://www.overdrive.com/) to distribute eBooks. So if your library isn't on there then they probably don't use Libby and the way to get them on this site would be to have your library start using it. Lmk if they are on Libby and not showing up bc that would be an issue and I can fix it :)

Another option is to get a library card at a library that does use Libby -- there are some that offer cards to non-residents solely so you can check out library books but idk exactly which ones

unfortunately the API I'm currently using only searches audiobooks/ebooks. I'll definitely consider doing this in the future though! It's just not trivial

does this link work for you?

https://projecttbr.com/?goodreadsProfile=9499790-brian&libra...

I assume you'll have to change the library -- I'll try to repro and fix that issue! That shouldn't happen

and thanks!!

it's everything after show/ in the link to your profile!

e.g. the link to my profile is https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/121455547-bella-vice-van... and my id is 121455547-bella-vice-van-heyde

you can also post a link to your profile or to your want to read shelf and the site will parse the id from that!