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Subject: Re: The brick and mortar
From: "Callum Brown" <callum@calcuode.com>
To: <~mieum/booksin.space@lists.sr.ht>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:01:19 +0000
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In-Reply-To: <C6PFZA1CGZ4Z.T7F27R1JB2G1@maclibre>

Hi. This project sounds really cool! I'd like to contribute a few
thoughts.

Should there be a standard format the books should be in (e.g. contents
at the start, ## for chapter headings), or would anything be alright as
long as it's Gemtext? I think it would be nice to have some consistency,
but books can be very varied in terms of layout so it might not be
possible. Especially with non-fiction which might have references,
images etc.

I like the idea of the books having pages, but for simplicity's sake
that might be something best left to the user/client.

I think translations of the same book should all be linked, so that
you could look at a list of books by a certain author and see all the
translated versions. On a related note there's probably going to have to
be some way of managing different language versions of the booksin.space
interface itself.

With respect to metadata, how should multiple values be dealt with?
For example if there are multiple authors or genres.


I'm looking forward to a Gemini library!

Callum