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New Weekend Project: Fix Book Images

I’ve started on my new weekend project: cleaning up the images of all the books that I’ve uploaded to this site. Several issues need to be resolved, including these two:

  • Load time – It takes too long for the page listing all the books I’ve read to load. This causes the list of returned books to be incomplete, the count to be wrong, etc. Part of the issue is that some book cover images are too large.
  • Social sharing – When a link to a book page is shared via text message or social media, the link should load the book cover image. That isn’t happening consistently. I know of two reasons for this: an improper file type and a too-small file size.
Cover doesn't show when shared via text message
Cover shown when shared via text message

To fix these and other issues, I’ve been going through all the book cover images and changing the file type, renaming the file, compressing the file, etc.

I should complete this project by the end of November at the latest. I’ll provide more details on what I’m doing and my progress in later posts.

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