I absolutely love BookWyrm. I absolutely despair of it. I am caught in the dilemma of knowing how to "fix" it and not knowing how I can practically do so.
There exist open standards for book metadata. Some of them have great reach. BookWyrm does not use them.
There exist open standards for publishing library or collection content. They could be combined with the above book metadata standards. BookWyrm does not use them.
What we have instead is a system which implements a subset of these in...
Jens Finkhäuser
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