Short update: after a friend of mine helped with some debugging last night the idea of library-fying the backend sprung to life. Restructuring bookwyrm to be but a library managing plugins, and exposing a sane API for this so one can easily write a front-end upon is seems to be a better idea. This will cut down the code-base a ton, and rids me some of the the responsibility of a decent front-end, which I frankly don't enjoy as much to maintain and develop. I will still write a TUI since that's what I want, however.