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some thoughts on what books are

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@ -44,3 +44,15 @@ Connection to openlibrary.org to get book data is handled in `fedireads/openlibr
The UI is all django templates because I tried to install jinja2 and couldn't get it working so I gave up. It'd be nice to have
jinja2 for macros, so maybe I'll try again some day. You can replace it with a complex javascript framework over my ~dead body~ mild objections.
## Thoughts and considerations
### What even are books
The most complex part of this is knowing what books are which and who authors are. Right now I'm only using openlibrary.org as a
single, canonical source of truth for books, works, and authors. But it may be that user should be able to import books that aren't
in openlibrary, which, that's hard. So there's room to wonder if the openlibrary work key is indeed how a work should be identified.
The key needs to be universal (or at least universally comprehensible) across all fedireads servers, which is why I'm using an external
identifier controlled by someone else.