Tsundoku 積読

Manage pile of unread books

“Tsundoku” From Wikipedia
Tsundoku: Japan’s Word for ‘Books You Buy But Don’t Read’

Sites

Currently, Kindle(Amazon) books are only supported.

Setup

Setup db

bundle
rails db:migrate

Setup fetching of kindle books data (kindle_manager gem)

See amazon_auth gem and kindle_manager gem

chromedriver is required. Please download chromedriver and update chromedriver regularly.

amazon_auth
vi .env
rails console

On console

client = KindleManager::Client.new(debug: true)
client.fetch_kindle_list
books = client.load_kindle_books

Run Rails app

rails server

How to manage books

You can manage books with adding tags to books.
You can find some filters(Read, Reading, Hope to read) in https://kindle.amazon.co.jp/your_reading .

Example of tags:

• Checked - The books you managed their tags
• Hope to read
• Read

The task rails tags:guess_from_title will add the following tags and some guessed tags.

• Sample
• Owner - Owner library

Update books

rails kindle:fetch
rails kindle:import
rails tags:guess_from_title

Fetch all kindle books data with new download directory.

rails kindle:fetch[10000,true]

Using envchain

envchain can be used to secure credentials

See https://github.com/kyamaguchi/amazon_auth#envchain-for-security

envchain amazon rails kindle:fetch
envchain amazon rails kindle:import
envchain amazon rails console

TODO

• Update tags without reloading page
• Update(fetch) books based on last update
• Import books data from several services