BookHive

We've done it!

The BookHive mobile app has been approved by Apple!

app.bookhive.buzz/app

Download it to your iPhone or iPad today!

BookHive

The BookHive iOS app lets you manage, organize, and review your books anywhere.

We now support importing books from a Goodreads export!

This allows you to migrate over your books to a platform that respects your data, built on ATProto.

Two new features:

Now, you can track progress on books you are currently reading. I'm using a similar shape to @popfeed.social's book progress tracking, which should make it easier to inter-op in the future.

We've also implemented proper OAuth scopes, which means minimal permissions to your data!

Had to renew the BookHive domain today (I can't believe it has almost been 1 year)

It costed 42 dollars, between that & the Apple Developer subscription it will cost me $150 / year to keep BookHive alive

So, I started a Ko-Fi where you can tip me if you like BookHive & want to see it stick around!

We now export our entire DB weekly on GitHub, this means that anyone looking to run a bookhive instance can do so without having to bootstrap from scratch.

This export does not include any non-public user data, and includes all of the book metadata that we've collected over the years.

Just added more book data scraping to BookHive!

Much more info added, longer book descriptions, author bios, publication details & even genres.

Here is a before & after:

Thanks to @tijs.org, we now won't log you out every 15 minutes.

And, more importantly, we now have a "recent buzzes from friends", keep up with any book updates from people you follow on bluesky!

Finally, Apple got around to approving the corresponding mobile app for the BookHive V2 update!

Check it out on iOS: app.bookhive.buzz

BookHive App for iOS

The BookHive iOS app lets you manage, organize, and review your books anywhere.

We made it to 100 stars on GitHub, thanks everyone!

Thanks to @tijs.org we now have author pages, where you can see all the books an author has published (at least the ones we indexed so far)

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New app update out!

You can now see your books in a list view from the homepage, with sorting by date added, date read and more

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Working on getting a submission to the App Store for the BookHive iOS app.

Here is a little sneak peek 😉

Bookhive mobile app coming soon™

A bunch of kinks to work out, but aiming to be a cross-platform, open data & open source alternative to Goodreads!

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com

Here is some progress on that app! Showing an oauth login flow, hitting public XRPC APIs encoded into lexicons for alternative apps to use to interop. I have no clue what I'm doing for the actual interface, but the data is there and available publicly!

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We have a new feature that we are testing out, an XRPC API for getting the identifiers that we know of for a book. This should make it easier to find books in the hive or resolve isbn, isbn13, goodreads ids to hive ids.

This is another step towards making the bookhive dataset even more open

Thanks to @jakelazaroff.com, I was able to add this to @bookhive.buzz's login page:

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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com

threw together a lil web component to add this to any input. super easy progressive UX enhancement for your atproto app! tangled.org/@jakelazarof...

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We've added a new "Genre explorer", now, you can explore all of the genres of books within the BookHive library.

Love the interop that @popfeed.social has integrated.

Real ATProto vibes

Popfeed @popfeed.social

📚🎥👾🎵📺 New Popfeed app update rolling out now! • Appview sync with @bookhive.buzz is now in beta! All of your books from bookhive are now displayed in Popfeed. • Various bug fixes, performance and design improvements. Letterboxd import errors resolved. Loading times should be significantly faster.

@popfeed.social how are you able to do this? Very cool!

B. Prendergast @renderg.host

Actually delighted to see how @popfeed.social has picked up my book reading activity — originally added to @bookhive.buzz — thanks to the power of #ATproto

I'm not sure what took me so long to implement this, but we now have logins that last for 180 days, and if you use the app within that window, you may never see a login screen again!

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Very cool to see! I’m not sure I’ve seen this pattern in other places either.
I think it’s a great idea! But, obviously I’m biased 🤣

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Also announcing the availability of .bookhive.social handles, for those who don't already have a Bluesky account, you can have your very own handle at bookhive.social

There is lots more that went into this release, which we will share in the days leading up to the presentation at #ATmosphereConf!

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This represents just the beginning of a series of refactors that I want to make with the BookHive code base. The project started as just an experiment to see if people were interested in Goodreads on ATProto.

Now, it is time to "make it real" and be a proper alternative!

Next up, UI/UX

Love the feedback, if you find anything weird with BookHive, please let me know (I'm working on a big rewrite & would love to have bug fixes along the way)

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This is huge in terms of data portability, now anyone should be able to build a service like BookHive with this data