beautiful! i made a much crappier version of the same kind of thing a year or two ago with a manually converted libgen db from annas-archive's index, but the best i could come up with was webtorrenting a sqlite db of hashes and importing it into indexeddb then distributing the static fontend bundle as an urbit app; it was much uglier than this
Thank you! I've seen quite a lot of similar projects as I was working on this, and they all served as much inspiration and also a proof that this can in fact be done.
Also, thanks to whoever came up with thebookbay.org instance :)
