Tracking and comparing editions in one place

What do you folks think about this Compare Editions view? I'm comparing the upcoming Limited Edition "Howl's Moving Castle" with the standard Folio edition. The idea is simple: instead of jumping between publisher pages and creating spreadsheets manually, you can easily compare editions side by side in one place.

You can try it here https://lazybookcollector.com/book/864483-howls-moving-castle-jones-folio-societ...

The site also lets you:
* filter books by features collectors actually care about such as slipcase, illustrations, bindings, and more
* track general sale dates for upcoming releases, so you don't miss anything
* add releases to your calendar

Current coverage includes Folio Society, The Broken Binding, Subterranean Press, Grim Oak Press, Suntup Editions, Beehive Books, Dragonsteel, and more. The focus is on publicly available editions, not subscriber-only, rights-based, or otherwise restricted access.

Hope you find it useful.

>1 megaumi:

I got a 404 error.

>2 folio_books: The specific link posted seems broken but the website works if you go to home.

Certainly seems interesting, will give a closer look when I have more time. I'll be keeping my spreadsheet for the books I own of course but this seems quite promising for shopping around.

>2 folio_books: Ugh, sorry about that, here's the correct link - https://lazybookcollector.com/book/864483-howls-moving-castle-jones-folio-societ...

Thank you, that looks very helpful.

Does anyone actually buy a book looking at a page like that? Looks like generic AI generated slop.

>1 megaumi: Thanks, this looks actually helpful! I need to take closer look at this! Anyway, if it’s doing what it supposed to do then it will help a lot! Is it yours?

Love it.

>7 DeviousMouse: Yes, it's my passion project. I've been working on it for over a year now.

Really glad to hear you folks like it!

This could be genuinely helpful for editions in the back catalogue to have all the information collated in one place. It would be especially helpful for the myriad editions of the same title that Taschen produces, where there is rarely an easily-available ISBN to differentiate them when searching second hand, or know whether a given edition was ever available in a different format as the covers are often similar, if not identical, and therefore which features to look for.

>10 cwl: Thanks, that's an interesting usecase. I expect I'd need to crowdsource data for that.

>11 megaumi: You might be able to scrape LibraryThing for some of that, though it's likely going to be incomplete compared to the range of data you intend to provide. For example: https://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=taschen&searchtype=newwork_ti...

You can now sign up for new edition/restock alerts by publisher.

Demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNkwXflVrSY
Website - https://lazybookcollector.com/