OPDS ordering and categorizing about web HOT 5 CLOSED

There are different applications for OPDS. The NYPL ingest doesn't care about order, but reader apps do.

There is a team of students from Stevens Institute of Technology working on the gitenberg website - one of their goals is have links to Standard Ebooks versions alongside other versions derived from PG. I've been asking them to think about OPDS, so maybe that would be a good place to offer a more fully featured OPDS feed.

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So it's kind of a naive sort. However I don't think the OPDS spec requires that entries be sorted in any particular way; and indeed, a good client (which never assume that its input looks like what its desired output looks like) can simply sort the feed for display however it pleases, after ingesting it.

Okay, cool. So it's sorted by author first name? :)

I guess what I am arguing for here is to have other OPDS entries that sort the books differently. And I would argue that, at 11 pages in the library browser, you are at that point where the catalog is big enough. I understand it may feel really small to you, but for a newcomer, it is quite big (and impressive) so kudos for that. ;)

And to clarify, my use case is using OPDS in the Koreader ebook reader, which does care about the order.

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The feed is sorted by the SE "identifier" which looks like: abraham-merritt_the-moon-pool and miguel-de-cervantes-saavedra_don-quixote_john-ormsby. So it's kind of a naive sort. However I don't think the OPDS spec requires that entries be sorted in any particular way; and indeed, a good client (which never assume that its input looks like what its desired output looks like) can simply sort the feed for display however it pleases, after ingesting it.

If I'm wrong about the OPDS spec please let me know!

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BTW I do eventually want to have more detailed subfeeds, like ebooks by category or ebooks by author, but our catalog is too small at the moment for that to make much sense.

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