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Really cool! I can probably add this to my personal book app to make things look a bit nicer: https://books.j11g.com/ https://books.j11g.com/
by janvdberg 6y ago
Really cool! I can probably add this to my personal book app to make things look a bit nicer: https://books.j11g.com/ https://books.j11g.com/
- lpellis 6y agoDo you know the number of pages for each book? Then you could adjust the thickness automatically :)
- janvdberg 6y agoI do! And I did implement it like this :) Compare Infinite Jest (a big book) with other smaller books on my site. Looks pretty cool!
- scastiel 6y agoYour app is very cool! I agree, having 3D book images could make it look nice, tell me if you need any help for that :)
- janvdberg 6y agoHa! That was easy to implement. This looks really cool: https://books.j11g.com/search.php?id=218 https://books.j11g.com/search.php?id=218 I made it so that the more pages a book has the thicker it will appear. Thanks so much for this code!
- SwiftyBug 6y agoIt would look very cool in the Book page: https://books.j11g.com/search.php?id=484 https://books.j11g.com/search.php?id=484
- gppk 6y agoAgreed - https://imgur.com/qbVZUk8 https://imgur.com/qbVZUk8
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoThis is really nice. I have a personal book library app too, also in PHP/MySQL, though as a former library employee I ended up focusing more on cataloguing and checkout. (I import from the Library of Congress API rather than Amazon, for example.) Also, I wrote a bunch of me-specific hacks and am still working on patching all those out (ten years later, lol) with the intention of making it usable to others and publishable as a Sandstorm app. I'm also still in the process of open sourcing it, mostly for some of the same reasons you mentioned. Right now my library-specific code is open sourced but the core framework I built it on top of is not yet: I've only recently begun modernizing the security code. I would love to see your code someday if you ever get around to sharing it though!