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Originally Posted by maximus83
Never mind on that, found an FAQ on their site. No uploads/downloads of book content, the reference to lending is only about TRACKING books you have loaned to others. One other thing, I note that we have no functioning Calibre plugin for LT interaction; apparently Kovid posted that the site blocks metadata downloads. So that's a bummer, and 1 point in favor of GR which we do have a nice plugin for.
Now on Goodreads, yes I've continued to dig around on that site and it has some really nice features and nearly everything I said I'm looking for. But.....owned by Amazon, and only Kindle books purchased through Amazon seem to get the full integration in the sense of book notes, ratings, etc. I like Goodreads, just don't know if I want to invest all my eggs in that Amazon-controlled basket for things like tracking books read, ratings, etc. Because I have a LOT of non-Amazon books.....
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There is something called TinyCat over on LT which is a inventory & loan tracking system specifically designed for small libraries, but yes, LT is primarily for cataloging your books and doesn't allow uploads. However, you may to take a look at an app called Litsy (they were purchased by LT last year) which is much more discussion based. I took a look, but the app was too cutesy for my tastes and again, was more focused on social media reading discussions.
Re the Calibre integration, LT uses a lot of Amazon metadata so that's probably why they can't allow third party access to the LT metadata. It's a pain as I would love to have that integration, but if you're canny, you can set things up in Calibre and LT to it's easy to transfer metadata and cross-reference between the two. Incidentally, if you have a lot of books, you may want to look into how importing your metadata is handled by the different sites if you already have your library catalogued. I've never used it; I added (and am still adding) my library using manual searches, mostly because I have a fair number of obscure titles.
I don't know of anywhere that allows collaborative notes and discussions; you may find something in the education or academic market. I suspect there are issues with how ebooks are licensed that may kill this for general use.