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Chevindu
@chevindu.com

@bookhive.buzz Hi, I love the UI! Two small questions: 1. My StoryGraph import failed for some books (65 of 157). Appreciate the option to match failed ones manually later - felt a bit lazy to match all 65 manually. Do you think I had a better chance if I imported from my Goodreads instead?

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Chevindu
@chevindu.com

2. Does the lexicon support indicating if a book is part of a series? Eg: The Fellowship of the Ring is no. 1 of Lord of the Rings series.

BookHive
@bookhive.buzz

Right now series information is intentionally flattened. The new book lexicon I’m working on will help that bsky.app/profile/nick...

Nick The Sick@nickthesick.com

I've been thinking a lot about how to define a shared book lexicon for the Lexicon Community Working Group: discourse.atmosphere.community/t/in-which-a... But, instead wrote a treatise against ISBNs. I hope I can link to it whenever someone asks why their import didn't work on @bookhive.buzz 😝

nick-the-sick.pckt.blogRoad to a book lexicon (Part 1) - Nick The SickThe article where I don't define a lexicon, and instead, complain about ISBNs
BookHive
@bookhive.buzz

Goodreads would have almost 1:1 import of books so yes it would be better. You can match them later since the import can be done multiple times. I try to auto match books behind the scenes but if it is not 100% perfect then I fallback to the book matching screen.