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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
@kiwidude and chaley:
1) I like the idea of having the book details panel switch between book and author view when clicking the author name rather than a popup.
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I don't.
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2) IMO the vast majority of people are going to want to lookup info about an author, not maintain it themselves.
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Probably true.
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2a) Therefore the author info panel should by default automatically show the authors' pic and brief bio, scraped from wikipedia and cached into the db. With a link to the full page. This scraping will happen on demand the first time author info is requested for that author.
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I personally don't care about this info. What I want to see is the cross-reference information from my library.
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2b) There should be a button to allow the user to edit the picture and bio as needed.
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Yes.
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2c) This is going to need a new table in the db with the columns:
thumbnail, url, comments
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I was considering altering the existing author's table. Why make a new one? Yes, one needs to be careful of "select *", but this can be dealt with.
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2d) There's no easy way to backup and restore this data.
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Backing up the library doesn't take care of it?
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Most importantly: I am not volunteering to do this, if it were up to me, I'd just make the author names clickable with a global template that defaults to wikipedia.
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There is no reason not to do that, independently of any other effort, so go for it.
That said, it isn't something I would use.