A markdown-it template for writing reading lists in Markdown.
Book entries are linkified with references to the local Calibre library, as well as Amazon.com, Goodreads, LibraryThing, WorldCat, Google Books, Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Exchange, Medium and Wikipedia.
Furthermore, #hashtags may be used to group books into sub-lists.
Edit list.txt in a text editor and add or remove book entries.
Open index.html to view the result.
Reading list in Markdown:
- Matthew MacDonald: *HTML5: The Missing Manual* #development
- ~~Erich Gamma & Richard Helm & Ralph Johnson & John Vlissides: *Design Patterns*~~ #development
- Steve Krug: *Don't Make Me Think!* #design
- Garr Reynolds: *Presentation Zen* #presentation
How it is rendered as HTML:
Calibre's web server should be configured
to run on port 8080 (see the options
$.fn.readingList.defaults.calibreHost and
$.fn.readingList.defaults.calibrePort in readinglist.js).
The code uses
markdown-template to
read the contents of list.txt. Locally, this works very well in
Firefox. Chrome, however, imposes restrictions on local file access.
A workaround is to host the files on a local HTTP server, for example
http-server:
$ npm install -g http-server
$ http-server -a localhost -p 80
Run these commands in the directory containing index.html and
list.txt. The reading list is now available from
http://localhost/.
The Markdown conversion is performed on-the-fly in the browser, and
the links are added with a bit of jQuery in custom.js. It might be
faster to preprocess the HTML document with
jsdom.
Released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.
Websites:
Apps:
Calibre plugins: