Another update for about.

README

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ ABOUT
 
 This is a Mojolicious web site app for looking through the catalog
 provided by Project Gutenberg <https://www.gutenberg.org/>.  It uses
-the database provided by <https://tildegit.org/barnold/pgc-db>.
+the database and perl modules provided by
+<https://tildegit.org/barnold/pgc-db>.
 
 COPYING
 

lib/MyApp/Controller/Book.pm

@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ use Mojo::Base 'Mojolicious::Controller', -signatures;
 use MyModel::Book;
 use MyModel::Author;
 
+sub about ($self) {
+   my $book_count = MyModel::Book->new(rows_per_page => $self->rpp)->count_all;
+   $self->render(book_count => $book_count);
+}
+
 sub books ($self) {
    my $page_number = $self->accept_posint($self->param('page_number'));
    if (!defined $page_number) {

templates/book/about.html.ep

@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
   Thanks to <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/">Project
   Gutenberg</a>, this is a site for looking through the book catalog
   they generously provide.  It's a personal project and is not
-  affiliated with Project Gutenberg.  The site currently offers 51,922
+  affiliated with Project Gutenberg.  The site currently offers
+  <%= commify($book_count) %>
   book records out of 68,670 in the catalog.
 </p>
 
@@ -21,9 +22,9 @@ more <em>contributors</em> - authors, editors, illustrators etc.  So
 really the relationship between "book" and "author" is many-to-many
 between "book" and "contributor". For simplicity, this site ignores
 the distinction and pretends that a book has exactly one author. Books
-with "excessive" numbers of contributors (more than 64 bytes' worth)
+with "excessive" numbers of contributors (more than 128 characters'
-are excluded from this site. A future version might aim to represent
+worth) are excluded from this site. A future version might aim to
-the book-contributor relationship more faithfully.
+represent the book-contributor relationship more faithfully.
 </p>
 
 <p>
@@ -34,12 +35,14 @@ distinct editions or versions.  Each book title shown on this site
 links to its page on PG's site.
 </p>
 
+<h2>Logs, cookies and tracking</h2>
+
 <p>
   We keep the usual kind of web site logs that include your ip
   address, user agent and the page you requested. We use a session
   cookie so that you can change the number of records per page. We
-  don't use javascript, analytics, tracking, CDNs or other third-party
+  don't use javascript, tracking, CDNs or any third-party web
-  web services.
+  services.
 </p>
 
 <h2 id="search-help">Searching</h2>
@@ -65,7 +68,14 @@ or "Name like" on the authors page).  Other non-authors are
 "Anonymous" and "Unknown".
 </p>
 
+<h2>Software</h2>
+
+This site is an instance of
+<a href="https://tildegit.org/barnold/pgc-www">pgc-www</a>.
+
 % if (config->{'email-address'}) {
+<h2>Contact</h2>
+
 <p>
 Comments and questions are welcome at
 <a href="mailto:<%= config->{'email-address'} %>"><%= config->{'email-name'} %></a>.

templates/book/authors.html.ep

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ min => 0, maxlength => 4, size => 4 %> books
     <tr <%== 'class="odd"' if (++$n % 2) %>>
       <td class="count"><%= $author->books->count %></td>
       <td>
-        <%= link_to($author->name => 'author' =>
+        <%= link_to(trct($author->name, 100) => 'author' =>
         { id => $author->id, page_number => 1 }) %>
       </td>
     </tr>

templates/book/books.html.ep

@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@
 % my $n = 0; for my $book ($book_page->all) {
     <tr <%== 'class="odd"' if (++$n % 2) %>>
       <td><%= link_to(
-              trct($book->title, 50) => gutenberg_url($book->gutenberg_id)
+              trct($book->title, 55) => gutenberg_url($book->gutenberg_id)
         ) %>
       </td>
       <td>
-        <%= link_to(trct($book->author->name, 40) => 'author' =>
+        <%= link_to(trct($book->author->name, 45) => 'author' =>
         { id => $book->author->id, page_number => 1 }) %>
       </td>
     </tr>