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 😉

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

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

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!

Reply to @wilb.me

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 🤣

Reply to @bookhive.buzz

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!

Reply to @bookhive.buzz

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

Reply to @bookhive.buzz

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

Reply to @hybridhavoc.com

You can import from storygraph & goodreads in BookHive:

bookhive.buzz/import

Thanks for supporting me on Ko-Fi @bnewbold.net

It means a lot, and doubly so from you!

I'd like to clear something up from a recent article by @laurenshof.online, here: connectedplaces.leaflet.pub/3lxx2rk4pv22r

Thank you to @tijs.org for bringing this up in a GitHub issue here: github.com/nperez0111/b...

Recent updates in the ATmosphere - ATmosphere Report #132 - Connected Places

Now, when viewing your own profile page, you'll see a dense table view of all of your books in your hive.

This should allow for easier management of book statuses, after a large import!

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We cookin' something up: app.bookhive.buzz