Book store: Project Gutenberg through its own catalogue feed (Gutendex timed out), Standard Ebooks through its public pages (its OPDS feed needs a paid sign-in)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaC9HmtHMdRP8dAbN4wAKj
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 - **Books**: an e-book reader for **EPUB, PDF, DOCX, MOBI, AZW and AZW3** (Media group; give it to people in Settings -> People as *Books*). Add files with the button or by dropping them on the page (up to 300 MB each; the server checks a file really is what its name says and does not store the same book twice). Titles, authors and covers are read out of the books in the browser; long-press or right-click a book to edit, download or delete it. Each person has their own shelf in `/data/users/<id>/books/`.
  - **Reading**: EPUB uses epub.js (pages or scroll, two-page spreads on wide screens), PDF uses pdf.js (continuous scroll, zoom, selectable text, dark and sepia tints) DOCX is converted to HTML by mammoth, and MOBI, AZW and AZW3 are read by `@lingo-reader/mobi-parser`; both are shown in a frame that cannot run scripts (scroll only, with contents from the book or its headings). Contents, search inside the book, a progress slider, tap the edges or use the arrow keys, swipe on touch screens, tap the middle to hide the bars. Appearance (theme, text size, font, line spacing, margins, layout, zoom) is remembered on each device.
  - **Synced**: where you got to, bookmarks, highlights (four colours) and notes are kept on the server, so a book opens where you left off on any device; two devices adding notes at once keep both (the newest edit of the same note wins). Continue reading on the library page, sorting and search, and *Copy as text* exports a book's notes.
-  - **Book store** (Books -> Book store): search free, DRM-free books from **Project Gutenberg** (through Gutendex), **Standard Ebooks**, the **Internet Archive** (public-domain EPUBs only; borrow-only items are refused) and any **OPDS catalogue** an admin adds under *Catalogues* (Calibre-Web, Kavita, Komga and so on; an optional username and password are kept encrypted on the server and never sent to the browser). One search covers every source, results show their cover and source, and *Add to library* downloads the book on the server straight onto your shelf. The server only ever contacts a source's own addresses (redirects to other sites are refused), covers come through the hub, and a catalogue book must live on that catalogue's own address. Settings: `GUTENDEX_URL`, `STANDARD_EBOOKS_URL` and `ARCHIVE_URL` can point at mirrors. `node tools/store-test.js` tests it against fake catalogues; it has not been run against the live sites from the build environment, so if one of them changes its feed format, the line under the search box names the source that failed.
+  - **Book store** (Books -> Book store): search free, DRM-free books from **Project Gutenberg** (its own catalogue feed), **Standard Ebooks** (its public website: its OPDS feed is for paying members only, so the hub reads the public search pages and downloads the free EPUB), the **Internet Archive** (public-domain EPUBs only; borrow-only items are refused) and any **OPDS catalogue** an admin adds under *Catalogues* (Calibre-Web, Kavita, Komga and so on; an optional username and password are kept encrypted on the server and never sent to the browser). One search covers every source, results show their cover and source, and *Add to library* downloads the book on the server straight onto your shelf. The server only ever contacts a source's own addresses (redirects to other sites are refused), covers come through the hub, and a catalogue book must live on that catalogue's own address. Settings: `GUTENBERG_URL`, `STANDARD_EBOOKS_URL` and `ARCHIVE_URL` can point at mirrors. `node tools/store-test.js` tests it against fake catalogues; it was also tried against the live Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks and Internet Archive (searches, and real EPUBs downloaded); if one of them changes its pages or feed, the line under the search box names the source that failed.
  - The reader scripts are in `public/vendor/reader/` (epub.js, JSZip, pdf.js, mammoth, the MOBI parser) and load only when a book is opened or added. `node tools/books-test.js` tests the server; `python3 tools/mkbooks.py <dir>` makes a small EPUB, PDF and MOBI to try. **DRM-protected books are refused** (a Kindle file with copy protection is detected on upload and the reason is shown); only DRM-free books work. The MOBI reader was tried on a generated MOBI 6 file, not on real Kindle files, so tell me about any book that opens oddly. Not included: text-to-speech, offline reading.
  **Free audiobooks** (Audiobooks -> Free audiobooks; works without any audiobook sign-in): search **LibriVox**, thousands of public-domain books read aloud by volunteers, by title or author. A book shows its length, language, description and chapters; *Play* (or *Resume*) queues every chapter in the same player as Music so the next one follows by itself, and starting a book puts it on your shelf (*My free audiobooks*, with a progress bar; *Remove from shelf* in the book's sheet). Where you got to is kept on the server per person, so it follows you between devices. The hub searches LibriVox and hands the browser each chapter's address, but only addresses on LibriVox or the Internet Archive, which hosts the recordings; covers come through the hub. `LIBRIVOX_URL` points at a mirror. `node tools/librivox-test.js` tests it against a fake LibriVox; it has not been run against the live site from the build environment.
 - **Radio**: internet radio, with **The Journey FM** (Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia; MP3 192 kbps, `http://ic.liberty.edu:8000/WRVL`) always on top, showing what is playing now and the last songs played from the station's own feed. Below it, search thousands of stations from the community [Radio Browser](https://www.radio-browser.info/) directory (free, no key) by name or with quick topic chips (Christian, Worship, Gospel, Talk, News, Classical, Jazz...). The heart saves a station to *My stations* (your own list). Stations play in the same player as Music, so they keep playing as you move between tabs. The hub fetches each stream itself and passes it on, because many stations only offer plain http, which a browser refuses to play inside an https page; it also reads the song title carried in the stream (the player shows it) and fetches station logos. The hub never connects to private, local or link-local addresses for a station. Give it to people in Settings -> People (Radio). `JOURNEYFM_STREAM_URL`, `JOURNEYFM_NOW_URL` and `RADIO_BROWSER_URL` can override the addresses. `node tools/radio-test.js` tests it against fake stations; the real Journey stream could not be reached from the build environment, so if it will not play, open the station's own *Website* button and tell me what changed. Not included: HLS-only stations, recording, alarms.