Bookshelves Export: include finished date

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I’m about to collate from different sources my reading history, at least the last ~16 years of it.

I did a little experiment by putting some books on my bookshelves and exporting the result and noticed that the available fields are title, author, isbn and cover_url. Same could be said for the JSON in the data folder in my hugo instance.

That’s great but since I’m going to manually input at least a couple of hundreds of finished_dates, I’d like to be able to have that field included in the export, so I can have a backup of my data. And by extension (I guess the thing are closely related), I’d love to have that field available also via the JSON in Hugo so I can display on my site.

Is this feasible? I guess this sounds more like a feature request, right? :upside_down_face: :grimacing:

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Both are definitely feasible. It looks like Goodreads uses a CSV field called “Date Read”. I’ll start by adding that to Micro.blog’s export, and then we can consider what makes sense for Hugo data too.

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Awesome! Thanks Manton

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The CSV export now includes Date Read.

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Oh interesting. I’m not sure I knew this data property existed. Right now, I manual shelve Read into years, but this could be a good improvement in the future.

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Thanks again, Manton. Much appreciated.