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by imrehg 982 days ago
This is amazing initiative, thanks for doing it! I like Libby is an amazing "best kept secret". Also Goodreads used such as this "database" is exactly as it should (at least partially) be used. If I could also connect it with my local _physical_ libraries as well + book stores, etc... it would make discovery so much easier - and I had even bigger piles of books to read than now. ;) So cheers for this!

On the user experience feedback:

- I keep getting "failed to load books", though some stuff did succeed (with libraries I don't care about, not my actual ones), so I wonder where the issue is (The query is https://projecttbr.com/?goodreadsProfile=3669238-gergely&lib... for reference; I'm guessing the libraries are giving the grief)

- "loading" is good, but it would be good to have some kind of indication of progress (is it loading my want to read list? is it going through checking the books? what is it doing?)

- it's nice to see that the settings are saved in the query parameters so one can just bookmark the page and don't have to fill in things again. This could be made more explicit, though, as it might not be obvious or guessable to people

- choosing the ebook type got me stumped a bit, even though I do use Libby for ages and e-readers of all kinds: "which one would I need to choose to be able to read in the Android app?" etc... This might not be this page's issue, but some clarity and UX help could be welcome!

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BTW I was able to consistently repro that link not loading. I made a couple changes and it seems to be loading now. Want to try again? Lmk if it still fails for you
Thanks so much for the feedback! Those are good ideas.

And thanks for sharing the link where it failed to load books! I’m going to try and figure out what’s going on with that so the link is helpful