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Originally Posted by sgspecker
While I really like Calibre, I see value with the greater integration that BookFusion brings to the party.
I haven't tried the Calibre plug-in yet but I have a few questions/comments based on playing with your web app.
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Formats
Are there any plans to support audiobooks? I would really like to have a common place to put all of my books!
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Most definitely, we hope to start supporting audiobooks sometime in 2024 hopefully but audiobook support is planned
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Does BookFusion support multiple formats for a given book... similar to Calibre?
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We upload only a single format currently where we prioritize EPUB, MOBI then PDFs and all other formats. We plan to support having at least two different formats for a single title but this is not possible currently
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Metadata
Is there a way to update the metadata (similar to Calibre)?
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Any metadata changes you make in Calibre you can then sync to BookFusion. You can update the metadata on BookFusion by clicking on the book cover and then editing.
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I saw a discussion earlier in the thread about two-way sync back to a Calibre library. At that time, it didn't sound like that was supported. But the BookFusion website made it sound like it might be supported today. Is that the case?
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We only support syncing one-way right now. But would like to sync both ways for books and metadata and if possible highlights. Can you indicate which copy gave the impression that sync happens two-way on the website? Would like to update this to give that impression.
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Who can see our reviews of books? Only those who can see our books or everyone?
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Your reading, reviews and books are private and can only be seen by you. However, if you opt to use the social features you can then share them with particular individuals or public.
NOTE: Not everyone has access to the social beta currently but I can have you added if interested.
https://www.bookfusion.com/privacy_settings/edit becomes accessible to allow you to tweak these defaults.
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Who can see this book...
Can we "bulk" edit this book property? I could not find a way to do this.
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You are correct that this is not currently possible. But will be in the next few weeks. We are still developing the social features and will be integrating them into the iOS and Android app later this year
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Similarly, can we change the default setting for this property?
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Yes, you can if you can by going to
https://www.bookfusion.com/privacy_settings/edit This is under settings from your profile page
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Like others earlier in this thread, I found the "T&C" language around "public" declarations of books to be confusing and scary. What happens if I accidentally make one of my purchased books public?
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https://www.bookfusion.com/reading/branch
The above clause applies only to Publicy shared content done, meaning you choose to distribute your eBooks to the entire world without limits. Users can choose to make content Private, Friends, Selected Individuals , Custom Groups or Public. When a user makes content Public then they are assumed to own the rights to that content and therefore give us rights to distribute the content and also the ability to make changes to the content to facilitate the seamless distribution across the platform and globally to others.
Similar to other services like Dropbox, Google Drive and others if a user shares a link to the entire Web allowing every and anyone to download that link and therefore discover it. We can then be contacted about that publicly shared file. This applies only to those that plan to share eBooks with the general public at large.
We do not scan or inspect readers libraries as we are a paid service and have no need to sell ads or users data. This clause just says if you decide to share an ebook publicly then we assume you already own the rights and now give BookFusion the right to do so. Is it a bit clearer?
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Duplicates - this becomes a concern with big libraries
Is there a duplicate checker feature?
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We have a automatic duplicate detector that checks if the same file is being uploaded. However, we could improve this since it requires the file to be exactly identical. If you have issues with duplicates let us know and we will look at improving this
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Can duplicates be flagged when importing books?
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Yes they are automatically flagged on import
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Other
Can you export from BookFusion iOS app to other iOS reader apps (e.g., Marvin3)? I may end up liking your reader better but I haven't tried it, yet.
API
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Fully agree and yes you can! We do not want to lock readers into our platform, they must truly enjoy our app to use it. When you click on the book cover, you can then click the arrow which is send to/open with , you will then be provided with the options to use it in another app on your device.
Funny we did this but a MobileRead user complained that because we supported that functionality we were not serious about the reading experience.
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I see that API mentioned on your site. Do you publish an API that we can use to write our own scripts/programs?
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It is not currently public but we plan to publish a set of APIs, the first APIs we will expose will be around highlights and notes. If you are on discord we could potentially give you early access to some APIs
Thanks for your detailed post with questions. Hope I was able to provide suitable answers.