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[Enhancement]: A way to create connections between ABS entries, e.g., to link a Blink to a book #1551

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opened 2026-04-24 23:49:49 +02:00 by adam · 3 comments
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Originally created by @iconoclasthero on GitHub (Nov 25, 2023).

Describe the feature/enhancement

I'm sure that others can find a myriad of uses for such a feature, but this is my particular use case this morning:

I've got all these Blinks sitting around that I never do anything with because I never think to listen to them before I take on a multi-day book (e.g. Niall Ferguson - The House of Rothschild is 2 days 1/2 hour). In this particular case, when I put the book into my library, I can check to see if the Blink exists and I could then manually create a cross reference that would display an icon (e.g., the Blinkist favicon: https://www.blinkist.com/favicon.ico) in front of the book cover to let the user know that there's a Blink available for that title.

I could see perhaps having a cross to the Fresh Air episode with the author in the case of Savage Continent (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/13167112 and https://www.npr.org/2013/07/24/204538728/after-wwii-europe-was-a-savage-continent-of-devastation). The Times has a book review podcast; that could be a connection.

Something like this would require the ability for a podcast library to communicate with an audiobook library so that might be a bit more challenging, but I also think it's useful to be able to bridge the library silos so that you can see a bit more of what's going on in the entire collection. Which actually makes me think of another enhancement...
(See also https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/2236)

Originally created by @iconoclasthero on GitHub (Nov 25, 2023). ### Describe the feature/enhancement I'm sure that others can find a myriad of uses for such a feature, but this is my particular use case this morning: I've got all these Blinks sitting around that I never do anything with because I never think to listen to them before I take on a multi-day book (e.g. Niall Ferguson - The House of Rothschild is 2 days 1/2 hour). In this particular case, when I put the book into my library, I can check to see if the Blink exists and I could then manually create a cross reference that would display an icon (e.g., the Blinkist favicon: https://www.blinkist.com/favicon.ico) in front of the book cover to let the user know that there's a Blink available for that title. I could see perhaps having a cross to the Fresh Air episode with the author in the case of Savage Continent (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/13167112 and https://www.npr.org/2013/07/24/204538728/after-wwii-europe-was-a-savage-continent-of-devastation). The _Times_ has a book review podcast; that could be a connection. Something like this would require the ability for a podcast library to communicate with an audiobook library so that might be a bit more challenging, but I also think it's useful to be able to bridge the library silos so that you can see a bit more of what's going on in the entire collection. Which actually makes me think of another enhancement... (See also https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/2236)
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@advplyr commented on GitHub (Nov 25, 2023):

I'm not understanding this to the point that I'm not sure what question to ask

@advplyr commented on GitHub (Nov 25, 2023): I'm not understanding this to the point that I'm not sure what question to ask
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@nichwall commented on GitHub (Nov 25, 2023):

I think it's another request to rewrite the libraries so users can combine podcasts and audiobooks based on the linked FR, but yeah I'm also very confused.

@nichwall commented on GitHub (Nov 25, 2023): I *think* it's another request to rewrite the libraries so users can combine podcasts and audiobooks based on the linked FR, but yeah I'm also very confused.
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@iconoclasthero commented on GitHub (Nov 25, 2023):

I'm at lunch, I'll flesh this out on discord.

On Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 10:14 AM Nicholas W @.***> wrote:

I think it's another request to rewrite the libraries so users can
combine podcasts and audiobooks based on the linked FR, but yeah I'm also
very confused.

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Reference: starred/audiobookshelf#1551