The page hotlinked ~100 AniList CDN covers per load and some failed at random.
The reader now downloads each catalog cover once (sequential, ~1/s, stops on
401/403/429, images up to 2 MB) into data/greatest-covers/ and serves it from
/api/greatest-cover with a year-long browser cache; until a copy exists the
route redirects to the catalog URL. The page also accepts the server's
relative cover URLs, so owned titles show their library cover again.
GREATEST_COVER_WARM=0 turns the downloads off (tests, offline installs).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
MaashkinoozheandClaude Opus 5.5