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NANTUCKET LIT PHLOG

NEW CATALOG GENERATOR, AND REUPLOADING ANTHEM

NJB // 2023-09-10 // Broomfield, CO

© 2023 Nantucket E-Books LLC

CC-BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

Please check out the new and improved catalog page
(https://nantucketlit.com/books/) for Nantucket E-Books. This is an update that
I've been looking forward to: a better way of generating the online catalog. 

The catalog page displays all the titles available on Nantucket E-Books, with
cover art, descriptions, age-appropriateness, and whether or not an audiobook
is included. Originally, the catalog was built by pulling metadata from the
HTML files for each e-book. However, parsing HTML is difficult, so for a while
I was updating the catalog file manually.

Obviously, neither solution was ideal. What I wanted to do was build the
catalog by parsing the Shanty files for each e-book. In the Shanty files, all
the metadata is nicely labeled and organized at the start of the file. If I
could bundle the Shanty file with each e-book, generating the catalog would be
a snap. 

Getting to that point, though, was another matter. For the sake of consistency,
I had to update all the e-books on the site, 35 in total, to the latest
version, 4.0.1. In many cases, new Shanty files had to be prepared to bundle
with the e-books. Now that it's done, I am happy with the results. Adding new
books to the site is as easy as a single command in the terminal. 

My next goal has two parts: make it easier to update the HTML file for
individual books, and to make it easier to update the software and stylesheets
for all e-books.

[ALT TEXT: Vector-art recreation of the cover to the first edition, with the words ANTHEM, a novel by AYN RAND, author of WE THE LIVING, on a sepia-colored background.]

I have also re-uploaded Anthem (https://nantucketebooks.com/anthem), the
classic dystopian novel. I put together this vector-art recreation of the
first-edition cover, the SVG file is less than one kilobyte.


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