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Is it worth using bookwyrm over open library? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In Bookwyrm there are way too many duplicate authors and books, and a way to merge them is unclear.

Open Library seems to offer a more unified and consistent database.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Other way around. Open Library is part of the internet archive. Given it's also vastly superior in quality and has tools to maintain and administrate the data, I very much prefer it over alternative offerings. If Bookwyrm at least had a curation/maintainence team or support group or something, and not everyone could just nilly-willy add duplicates of existing entries, then I could see more use for it.

But like others have said, it's also a bit of a different use case. If you want to pull data, definitely do it from OL. They're the same source Bookwyrm uses for its main data import, after all.