A Django app that displays a pdf library in a grid and lets you read them as flipbooks.

• Copy the flipbook folder to the root of your django project.

Install the following requirements:

• Install Imagemagick for thumbnail generation
• pip install Wand
• pip install python-magic

In settings.py add:

• 'flipbook', to INSTALLED_APPS

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'DIRS': [
            os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'flipbook', 'templates'), 
            ], 
    },
]

• TEMP_ROOT = os.path.join(DATA_DIR, 'media/tmp')

Then run:

• $ python manage.py migrate
• $ python manage.py runserver

Add the Flipbook app to a page and upload the pdfs via the admin interface.

I have implemented pdfjs-flipbook by default, which is a bit buggy but free. However, I recommend using dFlip PDF FlipBook jQuery Plugin. Simply swap the index.html files in the templates dir, and populate flipbook/static/flipbook/dflip/ with the js, sound, images, fonts and css folders from the dFlip PDF FlipBook jQuery Plugin.

Change the dependency URLS in dflip.js as follows and you're good to go:

    pdfjsSrc: url + "js/libs/pdf.min.js",
    pdfjsCompatibilitySrc: url + "js/libs/compatibility.js",
    pdfjsWorkerSrc: url + "js/libs/pdf.worker.min.js",
    threejsSrc: url + "js/libs/three.min.js",
    mockupjsSrc: url + "js/libs/mockup.min.js",
    soundFile: url + "sound/turn2.mp3",
    imagesLocation: url + "images",
    imageResourcesPath: url + "images/pdfjs/",
    cMapUrl: url + "cmaps/",