shorts-reader-maintainer

To maintain a shared HTML reader, you update the core `book.html` logic for pagination and navigation, modify `generate_reader.py` to regenerate `index.html` wrapper pages, and ensure correct linking of `doc.md` and `title.jpg` assets.

Generated reader pages fail to load markdown via HTTP when the redirect wrappers or `index.html` generation logic in `generate_reader.py` are misconfigured. You must understand runtime markdown loading via HTTP to correctly maintain the shared reader.

The best way to update pagination and layout is to modify the reader logic directly in `book.html`. After making changes, run the generation process to regenerate the necessary wrapper pages and reflect the updates.

Yes, you can use `generate_reader.py` to regenerate `index.html` wrapper pages and the root catalog. This script handles the generation flow, ensuring published content and assets like `doc.md` are correctly linked.

Yes, understanding runtime markdown loading via HTTP is required. This knowledge is necessary to correctly apply changes to `book.html` and maintain the generated redirect wrappers that fetch the story content.