Hacking LibraryThing

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Hacking LibraryThing

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1papalaz
aug 16, 2006, 1:27 pm

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2papalaz
aug 16, 2006, 1:35 pm

By "hacking" here I'm talking about making it do things that were not designed into it but that are possible.

Having played with sine view I have decided to make Librarything show my book shelves in their actual order. All I am doing (it's a work in progress) is to add a tag to each book that contains a code that is properly sorted by LT and that reflects the real order on my shelves.

See for yourself: go to my catalogue, sort it by tags and then go to page 19 or 20 - switch to cover view, and you will see the result.

Unfortunately LT refuses to render some of my spine images (too narrow?) and does not respect their relative heights but then I am hacking it so what do I expect?

The final thing that would make this really cool would be to find a way to force shelf end markers.

Anyone else hacking LT?

3rikker
Bewerkt: aug 16, 2006, 1:52 pm

Page 19 or 20 is different for each user depending on how many books they show per page.

So I hope I'm being helpful by adding his spine view with location tagging starts around book 525, when sorted by tags.

4conceptDawg
aug 16, 2006, 6:17 pm

I like what you've done. I like to see people hacking with the site and getting as much out of it as they can.

I'll tell you that you are not seeing spines for very small books because we use a small width as a tell-tale for a blank image from Amazon. Basically, if it is too small we are figuring that it must be a blank sent from them. But, all of that will change if I ever find time to re-work the covers page.