I am currently working on an open library game using the Google Books API. Should the game offer ready-to-read books or let players search topics and get books on that topic?
This is what I have now (obviously depending on the final choice I will make a map, and animation for the loading books) I’m debating whether to include a search feature because who knows what users might search for…
Thoughts? any feedback is appreciated 
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Interesting - however, where do you see this going? I’m curious.
I’m probably going to make it open-source. I doubt that anybody is going to sit and read books 
I don’t think it’s a bad idea but I’m not sure this is right audience for it - specifically devforum I mean, most of those people already use this platform as their main source.
Who are you aiming this towards?
Anyone interested in reading a book they don’t have, also it’s not limited to books about programming; it covers a wide range of topics in many languages.
Ah I see, I misunderstood. That makes more sense and that’s actually very unique.
This is one of those good ideas that could do quite well but is probably going to take a lot of work to get up and running.
By the way, for the vote, did you specifically want only one option, is it not possible to integrate both?
I mean it is definitely possible to do it but if I implement the search feature (that loads in any book you want), the rest of the library is going to be kinda useless.
Yeah I see now - I would recommend you go with the one that best suites the requirements of the audience; things like fast load speeds, stuff that isn’t going to take up too much time.
Especially considering how short of an attention span children have.
With ready to read books you completely eliminate the chance of someone loading an inappropriate book, but also reduce the amount of books the library has. As for the loading speed I can’t do much since theres a rate limit
Honestly I’m trying to read more books and I want my friends to see me in a robloxg ame searching for books to read to look smart!! 
I would use this game, maybe add features like saving a favorite book and maybe filters aswell for genres
I will, thank you for the feedback!
Potentially you could implement a skeleton system where empty books fill in the entire area, and when the books load in discard the skeleton and load the actual books. It should hide the illusion of loading pretty well.
i think it would be cooler if it just worked like a real library… to get astronomy books you walk to the astronomy section
That’s a great idea! I’ll definitely add that to the game. Thanks for the feedback!
There should be ready to read books, but if you were to do a search system you should try to add a filter for obvious reasons.