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Hacker News·3 months ago
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1 ### Add Google Books as a metadata source to BookWorm for fallback/staging imports 2 3 ### Problem / Opportunity 4 5 BookWorm currently relies on Amazon and ISBNdb as its primary sources for metadata. This presents a problem when metadata is missing, malformed, or incomplete—particularly for books with only ISBN-13s. As a result, incomplete records submitted via promise items or `/api/import` may fail to be enriched, leaving poor-quality entries in Open Library. This limitation impacts data quality and the success rate of imports for users, especially for less common or international titles. 6 7 ### Justify: Why should we work on this and what is the measurable impact? 8 9 Integrating Google Books as a fallback metadata source increases Open Library’s ability to supplement and stage richer edition data. This improves the completeness of imported books, reduces failed imports due to sparse metadata, and enhances user trust in the import experience.…

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