📚 Paperback Book Theme for Jekyll

A beautiful, vintage-inspired Jekyll theme for creating book library/profile pages. Based on the original Paperback HTML design by Starcorex, adapted for Jekyll with dynamic content generation.

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Features

• Decorative Card Layout – Double-border frame with ornamental corner symbols (❧)
• Left Sidebar
  • Book cover image with decorative corners
  • Optional "Buy Book" button
  • Quote box with elegant line dividers
  • 5 metadata sections with alternating background colors
  • About/Warning section (full-width)
• Right Content Area
  • Book title with trait tags [ TRAIT / TRAIT / TRAIT ]
  • Scrollable introduction box with drop cap (CSS ::first-letter)
  • Horizontal scrolling related books list (hidden scrollbar)
  • Footer with credits
• Responsive Design – Optimized for desktop, tablet, and mobile
• Auto-Generated Links – Related books pull automatically from your _books/ collection
• Batch File Generator – new-book.bat creates new book profiles with interactive prompts

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Installation

1. Clone or Download

# Clone your repository
git clone https://github.com/breakthebull/book-theme.git
cd book-theme

2. Install Dependencies

bundle install

3. Configure _config.yml

title: "My Book Library"
author: "Your Name"
url: "https://yourdomain.com"

collections:
  books:
    output: true
    permalink: /books/:title/

4. Run Locally

bundle exec jekyll serve

Visit http://localhost:4000

5. Deploy

bundle exec jekyll build
# Upload contents of _site/ folder to public_html/ via FTP

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Creating New Books

Option 1: Use the Batch Generator (Windows)

new-book.bat

Follow the interactive prompts to fill in book details. The file will auto-open in your default editor.

Option 2: Manual Creation

Create a new file in _books/:

---
title: "The Great Gatsby"
subtitle: "A Novel"
author: "F. Scott Fitzgerald"
published: "1925"
publisher: "Charles Scribner's Sons"
genre: "Classic Fiction"
series: "Standalone"
pages: "180"
status: "Completed"
traits: ["Tragic", "Symbolic", "Elegant"]
cover_image: "/assets/covers/gatsby.jpg"
quote: "So we beat on, boats against the current..."
description: "A story of wealth, love, and the American Dream."
buy_link: "https://amazon.com/example"
content_warning: "Infidelity, Death"
about_text: "A story of wealth, love, and the American Dream in the Jazz Age."
work_in_progress: false
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## Introduction

Write your book review, analysis, or synopsis here...

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Customization

Colors

Edit _sass/main.scss variables:

$color-bg: #f5f3ed;
$color-text: #4a4a4a;
$color-accent: #8b7355;
$color-border: #c9b9a4;

Credits

• Original Design: Starcorex on Toyhou.se
• Jekyll Adaptation: DAR
• Fonts: Cormorant Garamond, Space Mono (Google Fonts)

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License

This theme is adapted from the original Paperback HTML design. Please credit Starcorex and me when using this theme.

📬 Support

For questions or issues, please open a GitHub issue or contact me directly.

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Happy Reading! 📚✨

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UPDATES

v1.03: Added the BLOG / ABOUT / CONTACT pages