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After a little research, I am leaning towards "Framework7" with React.

https://framework7.io/react/

I also looked at https://onsen.io, but it did not seem as smooth. Animations were a little janky, which did not build trust in the framework.

Framework7 has a React starter kit, which I am going to try out next.
https://github.com/bencompton/framework7-react-app-template

In the spirit of a hackathon, I hacked my way through setting up the routing. As a result, it's a little buggy.

For example, sometimes the Search result page says "Browse" on the top. Other times the "Browse" page has a back button.

Also, I would still like to see tabs at the bottom for "Browse" and "My Books" (or whatever we call it).

Someone needs to learn Framework7 and refactor the navigation.

There could be pagination links at the bottom. The API already contains numResults and I believe there's a page param that can be used in the API call.

Hello. I drew up some rough wireframes of an MVP. It's inspired by SimpleE (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simplye/id1046583900?mt=8)

The idea is that you can browse, save, and view books, in a mobile-friendly app-like interface.
Login is optional for accessing loan-restricted books. So I guess, "favoriting" should work in both localstorage and through the open library lists api (want to read).

I suspect that there is a nice mobile webapp framework which can handle a lot of the UI chrome. For bookreader I used http://mmenu.frebsite.nl, but I don't know if it solves all the UI issues here.

The query needs to be updated to be something like collection:texts AND ${query}.

For example,

One might prefer to use the audio book reader or Mirador, or IA BookReader.

Both audio book reader and Mirador still need token polling, but this should be pretty easy; eg:

setInterval(function(){
    // ajax the token endpoint on archive.org 
}, twoMinutes);

This might require also logging into Archive.org, though. So the login form would need to log you into both open library and archive.org. The accounts are shared, so this could be done with just one login form.

On details page, show more metadata and link to search pages.

This can go in the lower half of the page.

For example,

• Subjects should links
• Author should be linked
• Collection should be linked

• more that I cannot think of right now.