Generate a web gallery for your books.

My use case is to list all the books I want to give away. This way friends can pick books they want before I throw them out.

Makes use of Calibre

• Generate a book entry (metadata and cover iamge) from only a ISBN nummer
• holds the actual book collection data

My workflow

1. Use an isbn scanner app to bulk scan the books (I use the (free) Delicious Scanner app for iOS)
2. Copy the isbn list to Calibre > Add books > Add from ISBN
3. Edit metadata if needed
4. Export books as XML in Calibre > Convert books > Crearte a catalog of your books in calibre > Catalog format:XML; Catalog title: "books"
   Alternatively, you can use the calibredb cli tools to do so: For mac run /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibredb catalog books.xml
5. Copy the resulting books.xml file this projects root folder
6. run python3 run.py

Then open ´dist/index.html´ in your browser to view the generated HTML page.

Optional: Deploy to netlify

Setup

• Copy netlify.toml.example to netlify.tomland change the build command so it works on your system.
• Run netlify sites:create

Build and deploy

netlify deploy --build --prod