internetarchive / internetarchive/openlibrary

Bulk move books from one list to another

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Lead: @cdrini Module: Integrated Librarian Environment (ILE Bar) Priority: 3 Type: Feature Request
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Description

### Problem

Dear developers,
Can you please make it possible to select a bunch of books from one of my book lists (ideally in infinite scroll view, without pagination), and then bulk-move them to another one of my lists?

This feature would be helpful when I have a more general book list, for example, "Biographies", and want to split it into specialized lists: Writers' Biographies", "Entrepreneurs' Biographies", "Politicians' Biographies".

Thank you for considering my suggestion.

### Proposal & Constraints

### Is there a precedent of this approach succeeding elsewhere?
File manager apps have offered similar features for decades.

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Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the book-list interface and existing list actions; done means users can select multiple books, including in an infinite-scroll view, and move them to another list.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
full-stack
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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