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 # Trunkless
 
-_being a web-based tool for making cut-up poetry using the entire<sup>1</sup> Project Gutenberg collection of English books._
+_being a web-based tool for making cut-up poetry using very large corpora_
+
 
 Trunkless is a spiritual successor to [prosaic](https://github.com/vilmibm/prosaic).
 
 This repository contains code for:
 
-- processing the Gutenberg corpus
-- creating and accessing a large `postgresql`-stored corpus of lines
+- processing source material
+- inserting cutup phrases into `postgresql`
 - hosting a web front-end
 
-The actual Gutenberg collection of books can be found at [The Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/pg_eng_txt_2024).
-
-## TODO
-
-- [X] ingest
-  - [X] strip header/footer
-  - [X] emit clean lines of appropriate length
-  - [X] associate lines with book metadata
-  - [X] db schema
-- [X] server
-  - [X] `/`
-  - [X] `/line`
-- [O] front-end
-  - [X] dark/light mode toggle
-  - [ ] cookie for dark/light mode
-  - [X] editing interface
-  - [X] save feature (as plaintext, as image)
-  - [X] `htmx` or just raw ajax for accessing `/line`
-  - [X] font and icon styling
-
-_<sup>1</sup> as of January, 2024_
+To learn more, check out [this blog post](https://tilde.town/~vilmibm/blog/#announcing-trunkless).