ub-mannheim/vmabookshelf

Create a virtual Book Shelf, Proxy script for connect to other webpages (ebooks) and a Firefox Add-on vMaBookShelfHelper

vMaBookShelf

Copyright (C) 2014–2019 Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim

Authors: Bernd Fallert (UB Mannheim)

This is free software. You may use it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See LICENSE for details.

Summary

vMaBookShelf creates a virtual bookshelf:

• creates static websites
• download covers from Amazon
• creates qr-codes with link to a proxy-server (reason: shorten the links in the qr-code), this proxy-server can call your local Primo / Opac
• includes a proxy script for connections to other web pages (eBooks ...)
• includes a Firefox Add-on "vMaBookShelfHelper" for these tasks:
  • wrap the content of other web pages in an iframe
  • create two timers:
    • timer one shows a random part of the subjects-html-files and
    • timer two closes all web pages (ebook or opac) and shows the virtual bookshelf again

Installation

Mannheim University Library develops and installs the vMaBookShelf web application on a virtual server with Debian GNU Linux.

See INSTALL.md for details.

Bug reports

Please send your bug reports to https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/vMaBookShelf/issues. Make sure that you are using the latest version of the software before sending a report.

Contributing

Bug fixes, new functions, suggestions for new features and other user feedback are appreciated.

The source code is available from https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/vMaBookShelf. Please prepare your code contributions also on GitHub.

Acknowledgments

This project uses other free software:

• Font Awesome by Dave Gandy – http://fontawesome.io/ (SIL OFL 1.1, MIT License)
• Java, OpenJDK – http://openjdk.java.net/ (GNU General Public License (GPL))
• YUICompressor – https://github.com/yui/yuicompressor/ (BSD (revised) open source license)
• Node.js - https://nodejs.org/en/ (MIT)
• jpm - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tools/cfx_to_jpm

vmabookshelf's Issues

Get covers from Open Library (Internet Archive)

The Open Library offers a simple API to get cover images. This API contains some cover images which are not available at Amazon, so it might be useful to get all (or only missing) cover images from Open Library.

Examples:

• http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn/3406328148-L.jpg
• http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn/3476008355-L.jpg