Thank you kindly! The book title system is a work in progress that was turning into it's own project at the end (had to cut down for the jam). It's a big imported spreadsheet of nouns, adjectives, book formats, and possessives/people/jobs grouped by the subject/domain that then get randomly combined together, with a bias towards the subject ones. I'm pushing up against the compression limits so had to resort to the excellent Shrinko8, which got me down from 115% to about 93%.
My college work study was at the school's library which served as inspiration. Really the challenge of remembering the alphabet's order (had to sing many a song to myself working on this even now) along with dyslexia. From an aesthetic standpoint, was messing around with a unfinished raycast dungeon crawling engine and trying to think of a way to make interesting walls (beacuse so many are just: brick texture 01-33). Books were good fit for this purpose since can be as simple as a rectangle visually, which makes them look decent at a low resolution. They also essentially data themselves, so they are efficient on the backend to store (title string, author string, color number, a sprite, etc.).