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Thib
@thibaultamartin@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Gang, when you want to send to a friend a link to a book so they can see the cover, author, summary, ISBN etc, what service do you use?

I’m not too keen on sending links to Goodreads because I don’t like being part of the Amazon funnel.

I’d like to link to a stable service to avoid link rot too. Any recommendations?

#books #reading

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Kate Hildenbrand
@rootsandcalluses@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@thibaultamartin The website of the author usually.
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AspiringLuddite
@AspiringLuddite@medievalist.masto.host replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@thibaultamartin

What about WorldCat?

https://search.worldcat.org/

which is pretty fabulous for other reasons,too.

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αxel simon ↙︎↙︎↙︎
@axx@mstdn.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@thibaultamartin if it's a somewhat notable book: wikipedia. Same for shows and films.
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Olivia Vespera
@OliviaVespera@spacey.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@thibaultamartin hardcover.app and bookwyrm I might suggest trying
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Ivan Enderlin 🦀
@hywan@floss.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@thibaultamartin Publisher’s site.
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Korynosaure le Dinosaure
@Tilichaton@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@thibaultamartin worldcat or my zotero library
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Martin Frost
@frost@camp.smolnet.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@thibaultamartin Would Bookwyrm work for this?
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Thib
@thibaultamartin@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@frost likely yes, as long as the instance I link to is stable :)
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Martin Frost
@frost@camp.smolnet.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@thibaultamartin Hm, yes, that’s of course an aspect as well. Perhaps openlibrary.org could work for you, then?
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David Zaslavsky
@diazona@techhub.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@thibaultamartin I usually use #TheStoryGraph because that's where I look up books in the first place, but I don't think there's one canonical site for this - nothing akin to DOIs for academic papers, for example.
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Amadeus Maximilian
@amxmln@mastodon.design replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@thibaultamartin There’s the open library: https://openlibrary.org/

Don’t know if they have everything though. 🤔

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Neo-Rodneyite ✍🏿📖
@jalcine@todon.eu replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@thibaultamartin

Usually the publisher's or the author's site.

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