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Given the flood of books and the like I was wondering how much work it would be to make a database of pdf books that could be searched like a old style public library.

Can PHP + JavaScript make me happy?

Right now I have an account enabled in MySQL with a username and password so it should be fine to start from zilch
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Are you thinking of your own PDF library on your own system? Yes, it would be simple to store links to the files in a database, along with fields for author, publisher, title, perhaps key words. I don't know what you had in mind for Javascript, other than the usual web page formatting. This would be an easy start-up project. Now, if you had in mind a full-text search capability on the contents of the PDF files, that would be difficult, if not impossible.
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I use JavaScript to identify how big s screen is etc.

So I see in every book, the Library of Congress card. I guess that structure is adequate?
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