internetarchive / internetarchive/openlibrary

Book cards should show the number of pages

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Affects: Experience Lead: @seabelis Needs: Breakdown Priority: 4 Theme: Search Type: Feature Request
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Description

### Proposal

Dear developers,
Would you please consider adding the number of pages to book cards?

Here's how it would look:
![PageCountOnBookCards](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2a7980c2-6220-4dd8-ad19-5ed6452cba30)

Thank you for considering my suggestion.

### Justification

### Breakdown

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the book-card implementation and checking how page-count data is exposed; done means book cards visibly show the number of pages, matching the proposal image.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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