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Notes from building it.
Why the product is shaped the way it is, and what we have learned from libraries running it.
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Why Bookleaf works with the internet unplugged
Offline-first is not a feature we added for rural schools. It is the constraint that determined every other decision in the product.
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What actually happens when a spreadsheet becomes a catalog
The messy middle of migrating a library off Excel — what imports cleanly, what does not, and why a partial catalog is worth more than a perfect one you have not finished.