Ebook

The Need: it works, but it looks like a prototype I am a 60-year-old non-programmer. Claude Code can build what I describe, but I cannot describe what a good e-book reader looks like. I know it when I see it on a store-bought reader app. I do not know the words: line breaks, tap zones, running heads, safe areas. My viewer worked. It also looked rough. The text broke in the middle of Korean words, the cover needed scrolling, and there was no page-turn mode. ...

The Need: a book you can read on a phone I had translated six old commentary volumes into Korean with an API. The first thing I made from one of them was a print-style PDF, and then a page-image viewer: 301 JPG files, 48 MB, one image per page. It looked fine on a tablet. On a phone held upright, the letters were tiny. Pinch-zooming a page image is not reading. ...