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Bibliofile's Extensions to RSS

Bibliofile uses XML Namespaces to provide extra information in its RSS feeds beyond what RSS normally makes available. This allows RSS readers/renderers to have access to all of the information you've entered about your books! (It also allows us to use RSS as an export mechanism, so if you ever decide you don't like us anymore, you can take your data and go home. We'd sure miss you, though.)

The URI for our namespace is http://www.myreadinglog.net/rssextensions/. The item attributes we've added are as follows:

rating

Once you've completed a book, this will include your rating on a 1-10 scale. (0 if you had no opinion.)

pages

The number of pages in this book.

status

The status of this book. 0=unread, 1=reading, 2=read.

date_completed

If you've read the book, this will indicate the date that it was finished. If you haven't finished it, this will reflect the date the book was added to your reading list.

thumbnail

A fully-qualified URL pointing to a small rendering of the book's cover.

owned

Reflects whether a user has indicated that s/he owns this particular book. 0=no, 1=yes

tags

A space-delimited list of tags that you have assigned to the book.

author

The author of the book. If there are multiple authors, they're delimited by a comma and a space.