GM and a happy New Year, Nostriches.
We at nostr:npub1s3ht77dq4zqnya8vjun5jp3p44pr794ru36d0ltxu65chljw8xjqd975wz have reached another milestone, on our way to #Alexandria v 0.1.0 (Gutenberg edition).
We have printed the entire Bible using 30040/30041 notes and made them available for you to peruse, using a pre-release of our Nostr client. The books are broken down by chapter. Breakdowns by verse will be delivered with the beta release. In addition, we have printed "Jane Eyre", so that you get some idea of how quickly a full-length novel can load. We are working on making it faster, with pagination, but this is already surprisingly quick.
You can't yet use the client to upload books (please use the e-book CLI, for that), and it's all a bit buggy and wonky, but we have already implemented a first pass at the Visualization page.
Feel free to view the Asciidoc test data, here: https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/. You can log in with a browser extension. (We are still working on the site certificate. Please excuse the mess.)
Jane Eyre loads impressively fast. Give it a try and see for yourself!
FYI: we're still working out our SSL certificate. If your browser tells you the site is "unsafe," click "accept the risk" (or similar, depending on the browser) to view the page anyway.
I didn't even realize how fast it was, until I loaded it onto my phone and looked at the scroll bar, and realized how big the book is. 👀
That little purple arrow, top-flight, points to the scroll bar. It's just a little dot.
It's beautiful! I love how the paragraphs can be tapped to highlight.
Yes, that'll be interesting, when we add highlights, reference notes, etc. and get the Composer done (you can already shift paragraphs around, and edit then individually).
This is really cool! I can't wait to see how big this library will be. And, yea, it loaded very fast on my phone, too👀!
Well, the goal of the project is to store all of the uncopyrighted books, in the world, so it'll never finish, as some book will always be going off-copyright, someplace.
