bookwyrm VS Inventaire

It’s got a very ideologically-driven focus, including an anti-capital source license:

https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/LICENS...

I think the focus on federation is to encourage small, decentralized and communally operated sites that play well with the broader fediverse. I can see that working well for a lot of book communities!

Also, spent a bit of time a few weeks ago and it already seemed to have the nicest UX of the open social book services, at least that I could see (would love recs - mostly interested in a personal tracker).

Base Github I am using: bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm: Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub (github.com)

So my class is a two semester thing where we are assisting a sponsor in creating a prototype of a item or feature, this is our sponser that we are adding a feature to btw. We have our own fork of it and I made my own copy on my computer (using git clone URL) as this will be a learning experience. I don't have the server set up for me to do debugging/runs and I am not sure how to set up the server to do test runs.

I contacted the bookwyrm dev a while ago to ask an API, we'll see where it leads us (https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/issues/785)

Beware that Bookwyrm is distributed under the "Anticapitalist software license" [1] so you must be very veyr very careful before using it. It may be actually impossible to legally deploy it for a lot of people.

[1] https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/LICENS...

Yes, the most obvious choice would be BookWyrm. I thought it would be nice to automatically publish read events or things like this on BookWyrm, but the API does not seem to be very stable or even clear : I found this link https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/issues/785 Apparently BookWyrm has to tweak the ActivityPub format to fit book model, so I'll wait for this to be clearer. Thanks for your interest anyway.

I believe they're referring to the fact the license (Anti-Capitalist Software License) is not considered to be open source

I host an instance of BookWyrm for myself and a few friends. It's been a good way to track current reading and things that I want to read. https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm

Also of relevance of what lead me to book editions and WikiData is this open source project: https://github.com/inventaire/inventaire website: https://inventaire.io/

That said, I did a little digging over at Awesome Self-hosted, and came across one entry that might be promising: Inventaire

Try to take a look at https://inventaire.io/ (source-code at https://github.com/inventaire/inventaire) a neat piece of software currently developed (and with the goal to make it self-hostable if you want and federated) book management, it may come in handy.

I like https://inventaire.io