Building A Book Library In Obsidian
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:20 - Book Search
02:38 - Dataview
06:20 - Further customization
My book search plugin config:
title: {{title}}
author: {{author}}
category: {{category}}
publisher: {{publisher}}
publishdate: {{publishDate}}
pages: {{totalPage}}
cover: {{coverUrl}}
rating:
date read:
status:
My book database dataview query:
```dataview
Table author as Author, ("![|100](" + cover + ")") as Cover, pages, category as genre, rating
From "books"
Where contains(status, "complete")
```
My to read list dataview query:
```dataview
Table author as Author, ("![|100](" + cover_url + ")") as Cover, page_length as "Pages", genre, rating
From "books"
Where contains(status, "to read")
```
New Author Themplate
```dataview
TABLE author, date, rating
FROM “books”
WHERE contains(author, "")
```
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