Mission
BookRSS.com explains how to turn book-related changes into dependable subscription and discovery experiences. The site focuses on the decisions that are easy to overlook: work and edition identity, stable GUIDs, reading order, page context, catalog provenance, offer freshness, rights status, and cross-device handoffs.
What the site covers
The core guides address RSS, OPDS, EPUB, PDF, HTML, Markdown, OCR, library catalogs, author feeds, new and used books, marketplace alerts, geospatial travel guides, API design, mobile readers, and AI-assisted workflows. The blog, The Feed & Folio, provides ten long-form implementation guides.
What the site does not do
BookRSS.com does not host copyrighted books, accept uploads, operate user accounts, process purchases, provide a live book API, scrape marketplaces, or claim affiliation with Amazon, OCLC, the Library of Congress, AbeBooks, browser vendors, mobile platforms, or e-reader manufacturers. Brand names are used descriptively to discuss integration and catalog patterns.
Editorial principles
- Structure before automation: define identity and events before writing extraction code.
- One normalized source: generate pages, feeds, OPDS, and APIs from consistent records.
- Rights before full text: transformation does not create redistribution permission.
- Visible uncertainty: OCR, edition matching, dates, and AI output should not imply unsupported certainty.
- Durable reader routes: every item should lead to a canonical page that remains meaningful over time.
- No fabricated proof: no invented testimonials, rankings, partners, awards, usage statistics, or performance claims.
Static by design
This website is delivered as static HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, and PNG files. It uses no database, account system, search form, newsletter form, or server-side processing. That architecture makes the content easy to inspect, cache, host, and preserve.