As almost every readers, I have some favorite authors from which I like to read everything they publish. But I wonder how I can efficiently “follow” their publication. Do you know about a service (free, at least as in free beer, at best from the foss world)which can offer such syndication? I’m thinking about a personalized rss feed, or a e-mail, or any way. For the moment, I just look from time to time to their website or social media page but the issues I have are:

  • I look when I think about it (it would be better to be somehow notified)
  • It’s time consuming and inefficient
  • ludrolAEnglish
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    9 months ago

    For general books idk. But for Japanese Light Novels there is a spreadsheet and it is used by @Myne@ani.social to post releasing volumes weekly. So for specific author you would need to write some python script.

  • recursive_recursion [they/them]@programming.devEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    For manga/mahwa based publications I use Mangadex and a variant of Tachiyomi

    for web novels such as the ones my friend recommended me on Royal Road I could also use some advice on how I could aggregate them, I haven’t used RSS or similar tech but I’d also be interested in learning if someone has some recommendations on how to get started

    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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      9 months ago

      I keep meaning to set up RSS for Royal Road stuff but never seem to get around to it. Plus their follow system is pretty solid so it’s never that pressing.

      It’s pretty easy to do for webcomics and news, just pick a RSS reader (I use Feedly) and start adding in sites that support it. Feedly even lets you add feeds from a search function. I haven’t manually added something in years.