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I updated my athenaeum project today with the following features:

now populates a ‘currently-checked-out’ shelf so you can see in one place what you have out from the library. I found that since I was running it for a few weeks now, I had over 100 items in my ‘checked-out’ total shelf so I wanted to be able to get more granularity over the items I had out.
Further to that, I also add books to a shelf per month they are checked out. More to just capture the data at this point. Should help me know which books we check out multiple times too.
I also added the ability to have multiple library cards right in the config file and wrapped that up in a YourAccounts class. That way I didn’t have to manually get the 2nd library card in the script each time I was running it vs. checking it in to the repository (didn’t want to accidentally check in my library card # to github).

Please let me know if you’re using the script at all.

I’ve a heavy user of the Toronto Public Library and recently started using Goodreads.com, so I decided to join them together.

For now I just automatically take my checked out items and add them to some shelves on goodreads. You can see how I did it, and do it yourself too by checking out the Athenaeum project on github.

To see all the items I’ve checked out of the library since starting using this script, review my Checked-Out Shelf at goodreads.

Thanks

For inspiration: Sacha Chua for her original script and encouragement, and Gabriel Mansour for his TPL RSS script.
Goodreads API
Dan Sosedoff’s Goodreads Ruby library which is where I’d like some of my api calls to head.
Arvid Andersson for his post on using minitest in Ruby 1.9.

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Athenaeum — A Toronto Public Library & Goodreads.com Interface