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Which websites should we link to? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml to c/books@lemmy.ml

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Recently there was kind of a discussion, with one user being a bit mean towards the other regarding the latter posting a link to Amazon.

While I do not agree with how they brought the discussion, I think it would be great to read everyone's opinion about what should be link, and if linking to specific websites should be forbidden.

For example, we have Open Library, BookWyrm, Inventaire, etc, if you only want to link to a book's information, and while it is harder to find a replacement to a web site where you can buy books, users can always search for it if they want.

What are your thoughts?

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[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

What do you mean that it's a secondary source? It crawls data from Inventaire and OL but it also has it's own database, for example there are books that are present there but not in OL and I think at some point OL will start crawling data from BW, too.

Wikipedia doesn't have a lot of information on books if they are not super well known ones, so I don't think that's a good idea, but it can work sometimes.

Having links to Libreture and the other DRM-free options would be awesome, too, maybe we could create a thread with some recommendations and link it to the sidebar.