As I posted yesterday, we did our first significant test import with 130,000 records. We spent pretty much all of last night analyzing the results of that import and coming up with little tricks to improve some of the inconsistencies in the data. The main things we looked out for were: Different books by the same author linked under the same author record. Different editions […]
Frustrations from our first book data import
Last night we did our first significant test import of book data. Until now we’ve been testing smaller data sets between 5,000 and 25,000 book records. Last night we imported about 130,000 records. I spent this morning analyzing how the data came through and have a few things weighing on my mind. Editions in different languages In terms of end result, I want different translations […]
Science fiction & fantasy books releasing in August 2020
This summer has been a pretty amazing year for science fiction and fantasy! I’m looking forward to all of these, but in particular, Sorcery of a Queen. August 4th August 6th August 11th August 18th August 25th
Handling different editions of the same book
Settling on features for Bookhype has been an interesting challenge. I was constantly asking myself, “What do people want?” or “I know people want this, should I do it?” or “But I know some people DON’T want that, so what do I do?” One example of such a feature was supporting multiple editions of the same book. I knew right away that I wanted to […]
Bookhype
Bookhype is something I’ve been quietly working on since May. I haven’t said anything about it yet, but I think I’m close enough now that I’ll start putting out some whispers. 😉 Bookhype actually started in April. I found myself wishing there was a directory of special edition books, because I love finding and buying them. I didn’t know of one, so I created one […]