Tag: docker

I Built a Robot to Move My Books From Goodreads to StoryGraph

I've been meaning to move my reading life over to The StoryGraph for a while. Goodreads still has all my history, though. And honestly, Goodreads is where the rest of my reading friends live. So I wanted both. Without thinking about it. Neither site has a public API I could lean on. (Goodreads shut theirs down years ago.) What they do have is an export button on one side and an import button on the other. Click, download, click, upload. Every time I finish a book. That's not hard. It's just tedious, and…

Reading on My Kobo, Listening on My Phone, Never Losing My Place

I sometimes read on a Kobo. I also listen to audiobooks on my phone. What I've wanted for a long time is for those to be the same book. Switching formats mid-book is miserable. You finish a chapter on the Kobo, switch to the audiobook, and then spend five minutes scrubbing around trying to find the sentence you stopped on. Amazon solved this ages ago with Whispersync. But I don't always read on a Kindle, and my books and audiobooks live on my own server. So I built my own. Put the Kobo down, pick up the…