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> There are a lot of obscure books which is great. This is my biggest issue: discoverability. The site has an index which shows 12 books at a time, and it loo

by SamBam 6y ago

> There are a lot of obscure books which is great. This is my biggest issue: discoverability. The site has an index which shows 12 books at a time, and it looks like 36 pages. So roughly 430 books. This is not actually a gigantic number of books, one that is small enough that it would be great to look through all the books, and yet I'm never going to do that if I have to page through 12 results at a time. It would be great to get a simple list view of the collection.

gordon_freeman 6y ago
you can search by your interests for example "philosophy" would bring ancient books on Stoicism etc.
- IgniteTheSun 6y ago
  I strongly agree with the parent post that having a simple list of books somewhere on the site is a necessity to enable browsing. If I have to search by interest, it is quite unlikely I would search here no matter how much I like the work that you do.
rabidrat 6y ago
I'd like just a .jsonl or .csv of the list.
- robin_reala 6y ago
  We publish a full OPDS feed: https://standardebooks.org/opds/all https://standardebooks.org/opds/all
philsnow 6y ago
I also wanted just a list of the collection, but it looks like the 'best' list is the list of (just HTML) repositories in their github org: https://github.com/standardebooks?q=&type=&language=html https://github.com/standardebooks?q=&type=&language=html It would be great to just index whatever metadata is available and provide search facets on those fields. It looks like there's quite a lot of metadata in just the few that I cherry-picked: https://github.com/standardebooks/p-g-wodehouse_right-ho-jeeves/blob/master/src/epub/content.opf https://github.com/standardebooks/p-g-wodehouse_right-ho-jee... Looks like at least some of that already works, since you can sort by the "se:reading-ease.flesch" field on the web site.
berkes 6y ago
This would be a great marketing opportunity for Algolia, or Duckduckgo or Qwant site search.

by SamBam 6y ago

gordon_freeman 6y ago

you can search by your interests for example "philosophy" would bring ancient books on Stoicism etc.

IgniteTheSun 6y ago
I strongly agree with the parent post that having a simple list of books somewhere on the site is a necessity to enable browsing. If I have to search by interest, it is quite unlikely I would search here no matter how much I like the work that you do.

rabidrat 6y ago

I'd like just a .jsonl or .csv of the list.

robin_reala 6y ago
We publish a full OPDS feed: https://standardebooks.org/opds/all https://standardebooks.org/opds/all

philsnow 6y ago

I also wanted just a list of the collection, but it looks like the 'best' list is the list of (just HTML) repositories in their github org: https://github.com/standardebooks?q=&type=&language=html https://github.com/standardebooks?q=&type=&language=html It would be great to just index whatever metadata is available and provide search facets on those fields. It looks like there's quite a lot of metadata in just the few that I cherry-picked: https://github.com/standardebooks/p-g-wodehouse_right-ho-jeeves/blob/master/src/epub/content.opf https://github.com/standardebooks/p-g-wodehouse_right-ho-jee... Looks like at least some of that already works, since you can sort by the "se:reading-ease.flesch" field on the web site.

berkes 6y ago

This would be a great marketing opportunity for Algolia, or Duckduckgo or Qwant site search.