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Docs only. No code, no tests, nothing to run. Implementation is specified in #80. Outcome of a grilling session on 2026-08-11 against #77, backed by live measurement of lightnovelworld over 2026-08-10/11. ## What changed **`docs/adr/0008-series-identity-is-discovered-not-derived.md`** (new) A Series identity is discovered from the Site's own links, never derived from an address. On lightnovelworld the userscript reads the chapter page's `All Chapter` anchor instead of building a `/novel/<slug>/` address by string manipulation. A Chapter Slug is not an identity and is not stored. The backend's chapter scan drops its per-Series scoping and runs against the body truncated before the visitor comment thread. Evidence in the ADR: 3 of 41 sampled novels serve chapters under a slug that differs from their series slug, divergence runs in both directions, one novel serves chapters under two slugs, and neither slug is computable from the other. The pointer was checked on 8 chapter pages and agreed every time. Three narrower selectors are recorded as rejected, each with the measurement that killed it. Three rejected options are recorded with reasons: correcting the stored address only, which keeps an identity the Site does not guarantee; scoping the scan to a container, which the probe refuted; and a SQL migration, which is impossible because the database holds no source for the correct slug. **`CONTEXT.md`** - **Series** - identity is the canonical slug the Site publishes, never the title and never a Chapter Slug. - **Chapter Slug** - new term. A slug a Site builds its chapter addresses from. Not an identity: one Series may have several, and none is computable from another. - **Latest Chapter** - now the highest-numbered chapter, explicitly not a date and not the Site's own newest-chapter banner. Settles #79. **`docs/research/lightnovelworld-chapter-vs-series-slug.md`** (new, committed with its corrections) The 41-novel survey behind the ADR. Two claims are struck through and corrected in place, with the date and sample size of the probe that refuted each: the `ul.clstyle` container it named is the hidden, empty "Latest Reading" template rather than the chapter list, and its caveat about the comment region understated the risk, because that region is writable by any visitor while the scan takes an unbounded maximum into a Series row shared by every Reader (ADR-0003). ## Review notes Nothing here constrains code that exists today - the ADR describes work not yet written. The part worth disagreeing with, if any of it is wrong, is the fail-closed rule: a missing truncation marker means skip the Series and log, never scan the whole page. Related: #77 (the defect), #80 (the spec), #79 (the numbering anomaly, closed by decision), #71 (the same size cap seen from the cover side). Reviewed-on: #81 Co-authored-by: Sulthan Zaki <sultankiki05@gmail.com> Co-committed-by: Sulthan Zaki <sultankiki05@gmail.com>
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Bookmark Manager
Read-progress tracker for serialised fiction. A reader browses third-party manga and novel sites; userscripts capture where they got to and sync it to a self-hosted backend, so progress survives across sites and devices.
Language
Series: One ongoing work — a manga or a novel — as published by a Site. Identified by the canonical slug the Site itself publishes for it, never by its title and never by a Chapter Slug. A Series exists once and is shared by every Reader who bookmarks it; it owns the facts that are true regardless of who is reading — title, cover, Latest Chapter. A Reader cannot change them; they describe the Series, not anyone's relationship to it. Avoid: manga, title, book, comic
Site: One third-party source a Series is published on. A Series on two Sites is two Series. Avoid: source, host, provider, domain
Chapter Slug: A slug a Site builds its chapter addresses from. Not an identity: one Series may have several, any of them may differ from the slug that identifies the Series, and none is computable from another. Only the Site's own links say which ones a Series uses, so a Chapter Slug is always discovered, never derived. Avoid: series slug, url slug, permalink, chapter path
Cover: The image that stands for a Series wherever it is listed. A fact about the Series like its title — one Cover per Series, shared by every Reader, never per-Reader. Defined by what a Reader's browser can display, not by where the Site keeps the picture: an address no client can load is not a Cover, it is a missing one. Avoid: thumbnail, poster, image URL, artwork
Reader: A person with their own Progress. Exactly one per set of credentials, so there is no separate "account" concept to model — the credential belongs to the Reader. Avoid: user, account, member, subscriber
Bookmark: One Reader's tracked relationship with one Series, holding only what differs between Readers: Progress, Favourite, Lifecycle bucket. Facts about the Series itself belong to the Series, not here. Avoid: entry, item, record, subscription
Library:
One of the two halves of the collection — manga or novel — selected by a Bookmark's
kind. The web UI and the userscripts each address exactly one Library at a time.
Not a per-person concept: "everything one person has bookmarked" is a different idea
and must not be called a Library.
Avoid: section, tab, category
Progress: The furthest chapter a reader has actually read in a Series. Only a change in Progress is real activity, so only Progress reorders the list. Avoid: position, bookmark (the noun is taken), last read
Latest Chapter: The highest-numbered chapter a Site has published for a Series, discovered without the reader present. The number is what ranks it, never a date and never the Site's own "newest chapter" banner — where a Site disagrees with itself, its list of chapters is the record and its summary of that list is not. Distinct from Progress in every way that matters: it is a fact about the Site, not about the reader, and it must never reorder the list. Avoid: newest, current chapter, update
Poll: The backend's own check of a Site for a Series's Latest Chapter, made without the Reader present. Performed once per Series no matter how many Readers bookmarked it — a Poll is work done on behalf of the Series, never on behalf of a Reader. Avoid: scrape, refresh, check, sync
New Chapter: The state where Latest Chapter is ahead of Progress. The single condition the ember accent is permitted to signal. Avoid: unread, update available
Lifecycle bucket: Which of three mutually exclusive states a Bookmark sits in — reading, archived, or finished. A Bookmark is in exactly one. Orthogonal to being a favourite. Avoid: state, status (as a domain word), list
Favourite: A reader's manual pin on a Bookmark. Orthogonal to the Lifecycle bucket, and never a reason to reorder the list. Avoid: starred, pinned, priority