Share book / citations

[ant9000]

Hello,
your app is truly wonderful: thanks a lot for taking the time to polish it and sharing it with everyone.

I'd like to ask for a richer Share feature. The current one is not very useful if I want to share the exact book details with someone else. Is there any standard that might be leveraged in order to truly pass over a rich book description? I'm thinking at BiBTeX for instance, but there might be something better.

In any event, thanks again for all the work you put into this gem!

Antonio

[tfonteyn]

The current one is not very useful

be honest: currently it is absolutely useless 🥴
Anything will be an improvement.

standard that might be leveraged

no idea; can you please check and give me some proposals?

BiBTex

I'll take a look, but I'd need to see/evaluate alternatives first.

[ant9000]

I am no expert, TBH - I mentioned BibTeX simply because I happen to know it, it's a pretty common format for citations in scientific research.

Just did some reading about book metadata formats: there are many choices, apparently. Wikibooks has a page describing some of the most commonly used.

ONIX is another standard in widespread use, that looks quite promising.

[tfonteyn]

the only one I'm familiar with (but without actually realising it) is ISBD which is what is printed in most/all books these days.
But that one is out, as to generate it I would need that data obviously, and none of the search-sites used up to now provide it.

Thanks for the links, I'll have a read.

[tfonteyn]

Quick update: I've implemented this in a way I can now support multiple formats of citations.

The original being the default (backwards compat.) and BibTex as the first new option for proof of concept.
Others can be added fairly easily when/if requested (or when it rains and I'm bored...)

It's an option on the Style(s). So you could for example have a Bookshelf/Style for your non-fiction books producing a BibTex "share" text, but on another one with fiction books use the "I'm reading..." format. (etc..etc..)

Coming in 6.5 which is presumably for early next year.

Other formats: books.google.com proposes these:

• APA
• MLA
• Chicago
• BibTex
• EndNote
• RefMan (RIS)

Assuming they researched what is most used, those seem reasonable.
Onix looks like overkill as it's a messaging format; Take a look here . It would be more suited as a format for exporting the books themselves providing anyone would actually have a need to import an onix list into another application/website.
I liked this quote 😇

It’s a gigantic and complicated standard because it needs to be able
to hold gigantic and complicated amounts of information for each title.

[tfonteyn]

Hello,

in case you're wondering... a new version 7.0 will be published soon now and will include support for BibTex, MLA and RIS citations. If there is a future need, it will be easy to add other formats.

[tfonteyn]

And here you go: 7.0.1