If I'm referring people to a book I always use a link to its OpenLibrary entry. If I'm discussing a book, I do it on the Bookwyrm instance I'm on.
In short - use both :)
At the moment I tend to view OpenLibrary as the canonical information source. Fair enough, then I have to answer the question for myself whether I actually need the discussion features that BookWyrm adds.
Was not aware these things existed! Thanks for bringing them up!
Will have a look at bookwyrm.
Thanks to BookWyrm I know that OpenLibrary exists. :)
I'm interested in this as well.
I am going to make a guess, based on using both platforms, that things entered into BookWyrm is not contributed back to OL.
Also, I didn't know that OL was a Swartz co-creation. Thanks for that info.
BookWyrm does not contribute back to OpenLibrary (it's an upstream source). If you want to contribute to book data, OL is the place. BW is for users.
BW also uses data from https://inventaire.io which is (almost entirely) based on Wikidata, which is nice as well.
I just joined BookWyrm and imported my Goodreads data. I'm just getting back into reading, so I'm excited to try it out!
I'm currently reading Recursion by Blake Crouch. I like it a lot so far!
I didnt know about either and am interested in both now.
Pretty straightforward: books and literature of all stripes can be discussed here.
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