This is just a little convenience thing. I always want to make some sort of note once I’ve finished something and give it a quick star rating.
Once you save a review/reading, it’ll highlight it on the page now so you don’t have to go scroll to find it.
Enjoy!
You can now search for anything (Open Library edition ids, whatever) instead of only title and author. The default is still title/author because I think that’ll be what you usually want, but now you can have it either way.
Thanks to Marla for the suggestion and for remembering that it used to be set to search “everything” originally! I had totally forgotten. 😅
If a book has multiple covers, you can now change the order of them. The first one is what you see in lists.
Enjoy the persistent “add” button at the bottom of every page now!
After recovering from being attacked, Open Library appears to be working again!
I had just added the persistent “Add” / “+” button at the bottom right of every page just as that was happening. Now you can actually use it properly!
If you’re as tightly wound as I am, you’ll appreciate a page where you can see at a glance everything your books have been doing.
Archive.org (which Open Library is a part of) is apparently under attack and is currently offline. I’ve added some extra error handling so at least it doesn’t crash the whole site when you search for a book now.
When you search using the field at the top of the page, we now show any matching authors as well as any matching books in two different grouped results. Author links go to a page which displays all their books.
If you can read this, I guess you already know or don’t care 🤷
We’ve got some limited offline functionality now. You won’t be able to add or edit books, but you should be able to see all your books in their various statuses even if you lose internet access. Pretty cool, right?
You can now add reviews directly to readings (along with a reading’s optional rating) instead of using notes.