Additional features

Dear Jeremy,
I'm a totally beginner with Drupal, but I have a rather good experience in PHP.
I've appreciated your module, and tried to improve it, maintaining a total DB compatibility, and changing the code. These are the new features:
1) Books data appear at the right of the cover image, saving space in the full view mode
2) A smaller cover thumbnail of the cover is embedded in the teaser
3) The teaser is built in a smarter way (eg: truncating the synopsis or the review and adding "read more...")
4) The Author is shown as "Name Surname" even if actually input as "Surname, Name" for sorting reasons
5) A link is associated to each Author launching a report (all the books of that author)
Before submitting my contribute, I need your advise about how to do that. I've already tested the stuff and it works on my site, but I'm sure to be not totally compliant with Drupal coding standards and, probably, some additional work should be done to verify theme compatibility (I adopted a bluemarine derivative...).

Before shifting to Drupal, I did a sw for my own books/media and I developed a more complex data model. For instance, I manage:
series/number fields for grouping books, magazines or whatever else media
cycle/timeline to sort books in a chronological sequence
status (on shelf, lent, on order...)
size
and other lesser info.

I guess that some needs can be addressed using the powerful classification system, other not.
Do you are interested in joining forces ?

Warm regards from Italy. Michele.