MASantos / iBib

Eventually, a web-based, book (pdf) browser à la OSX-coverflow or Calibre.

iBib ^%

Eventually^†, this could a web-based, book (pdf) browser à la OSX-coverflow or Calibre.

It comes from the limitations I faced with Calibre: the latter requires the user running Calibre to own the files (books) it shows. I was looking for a "Library" app, where users would be able to read, but not copy the files -so as to make sure no one can accuse me of distributing material which I may not be allowed to distribute -say I own an eBook and let another user of my machine to read it; but I don't want him to get a copy of it from me.

Stand-alone Demo Demo at surge.sh

Note: Swiper for Emberjs seems to have a bug/require additional setup. Zoom in/out to see the coverflow effect meanwhile.

Books

Enough to populate public/assets/pdf with links to the (remote) actual pdf files. Add also a cover image for each under public/assets/images.

TODO

The main thing would be to see if there would be an easy-enough way for letting the browser to display say a PDF and yet deter the average/not-enough-motivated user from downloading it^††. The default PDF viewer of course allows straightfoward saving of said pdf file.

Then automate the update of a database of the literature available and feed it to the client.

After this, basically just eyecandy.

^%: Initially this project had the appropiately boring name of myLibrary... :-p. Some files may still show it.

^†: This has a low, low,...low priority right now... :-)

^††: Of course, if the browser "shows" something, the user already downloaded it!

Prerequisites

You will need the following things properly installed on your computer.

• Git
• Node.js (with npm)
• Ember CLI
• Google Chrome

Installation

• git clone <repository-url> this repository
• cd mylibrary
• npm install

Running / Development

• ember serve
• Visit your app at http://localhost:4200.
• Visit your tests at http://localhost:4200/tests.

Code Generators

Make use of the many generators for code, try ember help generate for more details

Running Tests

• ember test
• ember test --server

Linting

• npm run lint:js
• npm run lint:js -- --fix

Building

• ember build (development)
• ember build --environment production (production)

Deploying

Specify what it takes to deploy your app.

Further Reading / Useful Links

• ember.js

• ember-cli

• Development Browser Extensions

  • ember inspector for chrome
  • ember inspector for firefox

• Public contributions