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Originally Posted by kiwidude
The issues are identical I believe to the LibraryThing plugin. An "application" is identified by a "devkey". You could try to apply for multiple devkeys, but as stated in the LibraryThing thread it wouldn't take them long to figure out what was going on and likely just complicate the devkey process which currently is nicely simple.
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Actually the Librarything plugin doesn't ID itself with a Devkey. Many moons ago Kovid tried this and it quickly exceeded the 1000 requests per day and that key was banned. I believe he scrapes the website for the data currently.
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Originally Posted by kiwidude
OTOH creating features that interact with the social aspects of the Goodreads site do I believe create reasons for Calibre users to register and visit their website and is hopefully easier to justify. After all page visits are what such sites live and die on. Hopefully this "shelve" based plugin will survive in that space.
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This is very true. This type of plugin should be a win win scenario for the calibre user and Goodreads. If the user wasn't active on Goodreads why would they even use the plugin. I know it might make me bring my shelves current and go to the site more frequently then I do now.