Stacks 'n Stacks
Description
Stacks 'n Stacks is a Ruby on Rails app that quickly lets readers browse quality books. We leverage the Goodreads API to collect lists of user-curated books, and then use the Google Books Viewer API to present previews of each book to users.
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Background
We all felt that finding books online should be as natural as wandering through a bookstore. There was no service out there that combined curated book lists with book previews, so we decided to make one! We also felt that it would be important to maintain a seamless reading experience for users, so we challenged ourselves by integrating a Javascript-powered one-page Bootstrap theme (Magister). We use jQuery to change the sections of our site, and AJAX to make asynchronous calls to our server for views and data.
Features
- Browse books with our integrated Google Books viewer
- Register for the site to save books that you liked
Future
Currently working on:
- Enhancing Saved Books page
- Providing basic recommendations based on books users like
Authors
Alex Wilkinson
Joan Soskin
Prashant Mukhopadhyay
License
My Stacks 'n Stacks is MIT Licensed. See LICENSE for details.