Hadrien,
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Now for a very different issue: in our epub books on Feedbooks we usually have links pointing to some other epub files. At the beginning of the file, we link to other books from the same author, and at the end of the book we link to recommendations.
If you click on one of those links, it'll open the browser, download, and then open the file in DE. It would be a much better process if it somehow detected that this link is for DE, and that it should add the new download to DE's library.
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Yes, it occurred to us before that this would be a useful feature. Here is what I think:
I would not want to doanload a book if I already have it. Also, an inter-book link may point to a specific section of a target book. So I think we need more information than simply a book download link. Ideally, there should be a reference file inside epub container that would describe target book metadata, so you could match it in your library if it is there, download link(s), so that it can be downloaded if it is not, and a reference to a specific section of the book (if needed). A quotation from the target book would be nice as well, so that we can attempt navigation even if user has different edition by just searching for the text.
It would be nice to define that on IDPF level. BTW, is Feedbooks.com a member?