Whelp, I'm officially a vibe coder (whether late to the party or fashionably early, I'm not sure). I took pictures of our home library and gave them to my Hermes agent. It built a SQLite db of all the books shown. We then used the db to build a local web app to view and interact with the library. And it's rather awesome.
It displays a selection from the library or selected genres or authors on 3 shelves. Book detail pages show the cover, title, author, format (trade pb, mm pb, hardback, special edition), publication year, links to the book's Goodreads and Wikipedia (if it exists) pages, where it's located in our library (based on the photos I took), whatever additional notes we want to add, plus what other copies of the book we have and other books by the author that we own.
Now, let the feature creep begin! A lot of the work still to be done involves improving the cover art. The agent largely pulled stock/common cover art that often doesn't match the specific edition on the shelf, so multiple copies mean repetitive covers. But it's super-easy for us to update a cover from within the app, via multiple methods. I also want to drill down on the genres a bit (for instance, I threw all non-fiction together, and I definitely want a "Science" category). I'm debating pulling in the book description from Goodreads, but I don't want to make the book detail page too cluttered.
Take a look and shout if you have an idea for an improvement or feature I should add!
