Grow a shelf
Find books that fit a shelf and aren't in your library yet, kept as a wishlist you review.
Grow this shelf suggests books that belong on a shelf and that you don't have. They are kept as a wishlist for you to look through. Nothing is downloaded or bought.
Grow a shelf#
- Open a shelf note.
- Select Grow this shelf in the Library panel's Shelf tab, or right-click the shelf note.
- A window says how many books will be asked for and what it may cost. Select Grow.
How it works:
- A model, through the
library-hub.shelf-growrole in Model Hub, reads the shelf's name, description and books, and proposes others that fit, each with a reason. - Each proposal is looked up in Open Library (and Google Books, if you added a key), about one a second. A book neither catalog knows is dropped, so made-up titles don't reach you. The catalog gives the year and an ISBN.
- Books in your library (by ISBN, or by title and author), and books suggested before, are left out.
The notice says how many joined the wishlist and what was left out, with Undo. The wishlist opens.
The wishlist#
The wishlist is in Books/Wishlist: one note per book, with its title, author, year, ISBN, the shelf, and why it fits, plus Wishlist.base, a table with three views: To review, Wanted and Turned down.
- Set
want: trueon a book to keep it in mind. - Set
reject: true, or delete its note. Either way it won't be suggested again.
Change the folder, and how many books one run asks for (15 by default), in Settings → Library Hub → Shelves.
Costs#
One model call per run, small next to a summary: the shelf's book titles go in and a short list comes out. Open Library and Google Books are free. See Privacy and costs.