What's your idea?

• Currently the app fetches the full release date data from the metadata providers, and discards the day/month. Seems just published year is stored, displayed in book details page and exposed as a way to stort in UI.
• I propose we store full release date for the book to be available to sort and use in smart scopes.

What problem does it solve?

• Bookorbit does not store full release date.
• This means that if I create a Smart scope to display Recent releases, only sort option that is viable for my purpose is published year
• When I set books to be sored in published year, books are displayed in a random order.

This is a small, nitpicky change but would make the app feel more refined.

Anything else? (optional)

Implementation idea:

• Keep current publishedYear as is.
• Add a releaseDate field and store full release date as a separate entity. This data is already fetched from metadata sources from a cursory glance, we just change it to be stored as a proper date, and wire it up to be used in sorting.
• Add safeguards to write 01-01-YYYY if metadata source only supports year.

Want to help?

Yes, I'd like to implement this

Before submitting

• I've searched existing issues and this hasn't been requested yet.