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PageNotes
Reading-path planner that turns a topic into beginner, intermediate and advanced books
pagenotes.netlify.app
What it does
Type a topic and PageNotes groups Open Library results into beginner, intermediate and advanced with a “best place to start”, opens any book for its description, subjects and related titles, and keeps a reading journey with saved books, notes and status. Built as a college assignment; finished as a product.
Constraints I set
React 19 and Vite, no UI library, no router library (a small hash router of my own), no backend. Everything personal lives in localStorage. 61 commits over eleven days, all mine.
Edge cases, designed rather than ignored
BeforeAfter
No cover imageBroken image iconA typographic cover with title and author
No descriptionEmpty panelSubjects and first-publish year stand in, labelled as such
Weak metadataWrong levelDefaults to intermediate and says why
Slow or failed APISpinner foreverSkeleton, then a retry that keeps the query