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RE: GoodBook.reviews - Steem Powered Book Reviews 📖

in #utopian-io • 7 years ago (edited)

This looks great - I'm looking forward to using it. Regarding the book cover photos - would these be scanned in by the user? Would there be copyright issues? How would it work with old out-of-print books, eg, books read via online libraries like Project Gutenberg, or simply downloaded as pdfs? Could you just use a general image for illustration if there was no actual book cover available?
I would also place importance on the searchability, ensuring that books can be found even if you don't have every single word or apostrophe. It would be good if books could be searched by genre, title and author.
Also - genres are important, but can be very subjective. It's so annoying if you have a niche interest that doesn't really fit into wider categories. I'd like a mechanism whereby review authors can create genre categories, maybe similar to the Steemit tag system.

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     7 years ago 

    Would there be copyright issues?

    I was worried about this but from my research using book covers is acceptable if it's for the purpose of review. You can't use any other material or graphics form the book.

    would these be scanned in by the user?

    Possible for the very first version this could be sourced online but in future, I would like to implement book covers automatically based on the book title/version. I need to look into what options are available for this.

    How would it work with old out-of-print books, eg, books read via online libraries like Project Gutenberg, or simply downloaded as pdfs?

    I had not thought of this. Perhaps there are already images out there for these kinds of resources that we could match content with.

    General image for illustration if there was no actual book cover available?
    would need to be careful with copyright restrictions here but as long as the uploader has rights to the issue I don't see this as a problem when there is no other cover available.

    I would also place importance on the searchability, ensuring that books can be found even if you don't have every single word or apostrophe.

    I agree. Search is important and a great feature. It probably won't be added for awhile but the aim is to have it in future.

    I'd like a mechanism whereby review authors can create genre categories, maybe similar to the Steemit tag system.

    Totally possible.

    thanks for all of your ideas and feedback

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    Thanks for your detailed reply. I think this is a really exciting project!

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     7 years ago (edited)

    Why not pull them from Amazon? I think that can be done with the book serial number (ISBN?) which can also help with buy book now links. You'd probably want to add that as a mandatory field in the post for that to work, @sambillingham.

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       7 years ago 

      Yes was hoping to add something like this in future 👍

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         7 years ago 

        Book covers can be legally used in reviews under fair-use laws.

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           7 years ago 

          Great - thanks for clarifying.

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