This time, I focused on enhancing the user experience. First, I expanded our central books.json database, populating it with a wider variety of texts and injecting new metadata—like author names, page counts, and synopses. To display this rich data without cluttering the main grid, I built a custom, glass-morphism UI Modal. Now, clicking “View Book” triggers a sleek pop-up rather than aggressively forcing a download. The biggest technical win, however, is the new “Read Online” integration. By leveraging the target=”_blank” attribute paired with the raw PDF URL, Bookly now securely hands off the file to the browser’s native PDF viewer. This bypasses the need for heavy third-party libraries, ensuring students get a hardware-accelerated, lag-free reading experience right in their current window.