diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c297c15..abac689 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
     "react-final-form": "^6.5.3",
     "react-lazylog": "^4.5.3",
     "react-loader-spinner": "^4.0.0",
+    "react-masonry-css": "^1.0.16",
     "react-notification-system": "^0.4.0",
     "react-notification-system-redux": "^2.0.1",
     "react-select": "^4.3.1",
diff --git a/src/client/assets/scss/App.scss b/src/client/assets/scss/App.scss
index 52486e1..28fb4a1 100644
--- a/src/client/assets/scss/App.scss
+++ b/src/client/assets/scss/App.scss
@@ -278,6 +278,24 @@ $border-color: red;
   }
 }
 
+// Library grid 
+.my-masonry-grid {
+  display: -webkit-box; /* Not needed if autoprefixing */
+  display: -ms-flexbox; /* Not needed if autoprefixing */
+  display: flex;
+  margin-left: -30px; /* gutter size offset */
+  width: auto;
+}
+.my-masonry-grid_column {
+  padding-left: 30px; /* gutter size */
+  background-clip: padding-box;
+}
+
+/* Style your items */
+.my-masonry-grid_column > div { /* change div to reference your elements you put in <Masonry> */
+  margin-bottom: 20px;
+}
+
 // progress
 .progress-indicator-container {
   height: 100%;
diff --git a/src/client/components/App.tsx b/src/client/components/App.tsx
index b4e240f..4b65bea 100644
--- a/src/client/components/App.tsx
+++ b/src/client/components/App.tsx
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import Dashboard from "./Dashboard";
 import Import from "./Import";
 import { ComicDetail } from "./ComicDetail";
 import Library from "./Library";
+import LibraryGrid from "./LibraryGrid";
 import Search from "./Search";
 import Settings from "./Settings";
 
@@ -78,6 +79,9 @@ export const App = (): ReactElement => {
         <Route path="/library">
           <Library />
         </Route>
+        <Route path="/library-grid">
+          <LibraryGrid />
+        </Route>
         <Route path="/search">
           <Search />
         </Route>
diff --git a/src/client/components/LibraryGrid.tsx b/src/client/components/LibraryGrid.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b7a4723
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/components/LibraryGrid.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+import React, { useState, useEffect, useMemo, ReactElement } from "react";
+import PropTypes from "prop-types";
+import { useHistory } from "react-router";
+import {
+  removeLeadingPeriod,
+  escapePoundSymbol,
+} from "../shared/utils/formatting.utils";
+import { useTable, usePagination } from "react-table";
+import prettyBytes from "pretty-bytes";
+import ellipsize from "ellipsize";
+import { useDispatch, useSelector } from "react-redux";
+import { getComicBooks } from "../actions/fileops.actions";
+import { isNil, isEmpty } from "lodash";
+import Masonry from "react-masonry-css";
+import Card from "./Carda";
+import { detectTradePaperbacks } from "../shared/utils/tradepaperback.utils";
+import { Link } from "react-router-dom";
+
+interface ILibraryGridProps {}
+export const LibraryGrid = (libraryGridProps: ILibraryGridProps) => {
+  const data = useSelector(
+    (state: RootState) => state.fileOps.recentComics.docs,
+  );
+  const pageTotal = useSelector(
+    (state: RootState) => state.fileOps.recentComics.totalDocs,
+  );
+  const breakpointColumnsObj = {
+    default: 5,
+    1100: 4,
+    700: 3,
+    500: 1,
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <section className="container">
+      <div className="section">
+        <h1 className="title">Library</h1>
+
+        <Masonry
+          breakpointCols={breakpointColumnsObj}
+          className="my-masonry-grid"
+          columnClassName="my-masonry-grid_column"
+        >
+          {data.map(({ _id, rawFileDetails, sourcedMetadata }) => {
+            let imagePath = "";
+            let comicName = "";
+            if (!isNil(rawFileDetails)) {
+              const encodedFilePath = encodeURI(
+                "http://localhost:3000" +
+                  removeLeadingPeriod(rawFileDetails.path),
+              );
+              imagePath = escapePoundSymbol(encodedFilePath);
+              comicName = rawFileDetails.name;
+            } else if (!isNil(sourcedMetadata)) {
+              imagePath = sourcedMetadata.comicvine.image.small_url;
+              comicName = sourcedMetadata.comicvine.name;
+            }
+            const titleElement = (
+              <Link to={"/comic/details/" + _id}>
+                {ellipsize(comicName, 18)}
+              </Link>
+            );
+            console.log(name);
+            return (
+              <Card
+                key={_id}
+                orientation={"vertical"}
+                imageUrl={imagePath}
+                hasDetails
+                title={comicName ? titleElement : null}
+              >
+                <div className="content is-flex is-flex-direction-row">
+                  {!isNil(sourcedMetadata.comicvine) && (
+                    <span className="icon cv-icon is-small">
+                      <img src="/dist/img/cvlogo.svg" />
+                    </span>
+                  )}
+                  {isNil(rawFileDetails) && (
+                    <span className="icon has-text-info">
+                      <i className="fas fa-adjust" />
+                    </span>
+                  )}
+                  {!isNil(sourcedMetadata.comicvine) &&
+                  !isEmpty(
+                    detectTradePaperbacks(
+                      sourcedMetadata.comicvine.volumeInformation.description,
+                    ),
+                  ) ? (
+                    <span className="tag is-warning">TPB</span>
+                  ) : null}
+                </div>
+              </Card>
+            );
+          })}
+        </Masonry>
+      </div>
+    </section>
+  );
+};
+
+export default LibraryGrid;
diff --git a/src/client/components/Navbar.tsx b/src/client/components/Navbar.tsx
index a5dd7ce..d42bcab 100644
--- a/src/client/components/Navbar.tsx
+++ b/src/client/components/Navbar.tsx
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ const Navbar: React.FunctionComponent = (props) => {
           <Link to="/library" className="navbar-item">
             Library
           </Link>
+          <Link to="/library-grid" className="navbar-item">
+            Library Grid
+          </Link>
           <Link to="/search" className="navbar-item">
             Search
           </Link>
diff --git a/src/client/index.tsx b/src/client/index.tsx
index 9a3fd9c..4513a49 100644
--- a/src/client/index.tsx
+++ b/src/client/index.tsx
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import WebSocketProvider, {
 } from "./context/socket/socket.context";
 import configureStore, { history } from "./store/index";
 import App from "./components/App";
-
 const store = configureStore({});
 const rootEl = document.getElementById("root");
 
diff --git a/src/client/shared/utils/filenameparser.utils.ts b/src/client/shared/utils/filenameparser.utils.ts
index 135c4c3..29b0f31 100644
--- a/src/client/shared/utils/filenameparser.utils.ts
+++ b/src/client/shared/utils/filenameparser.utils.ts
@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@ interface M {
   value: string;
 }
 
-function replaceRecursive(
+const replaceRecursive = (
   text: string,
   left: string,
   right: string,
   replacer: (match: string) => string,
-): string {
+): string => {
   const r: M[] = xregexp.matchRecursive(text, left, right, "g", {
     valueNames: [null, null, "match", null],
   });
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ function replaceRecursive(
     offset += replacement.length - m.value.length;
   }
   return text;
-}
+};
 
 function replaceAt(
   string: string,
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ export const preprocess = (inputString: string) => {
   // see if the comic matches the following format, and if so, remove everything
   // after the first number:
   // "nnn series name #xx (etc) (etc)" -> "series name #xx (etc) (etc)"
-  const format1 = inputString.match(/^\s*(\d+)[\s._-]+?([^#]+)(\W+.*)/);
+  const format1 = inputString.match(/^\s*(\d+)[\s._-]+?([^#]+)(\W+.*)/gim);
 
   //   see if the comic matches the following format, and if so, remove everything
   // after the first number that isn't in brackets:
@@ -56,6 +56,12 @@ export const preprocess = (inputString: string) => {
   const format2 = inputString.match(
     /^((?:[a-zA-Z,.-]+\s)+)(\#?(?:\d+[.0-9*])\s*(?:-))(.*((\(.*)?))$/gis,
   );
+  return {
+    matches: {
+      format1,
+      format2,
+    },
+  };
 };
 
 /**
@@ -67,6 +73,9 @@ export const tokenize = (inputString: string) => {
   const doc = nlp(inputString);
   const sentence = doc.sentences().json();
 
+  // filter out anything at the end of the title in parantheses
+  inputString = inputString.replace(/\((.*?)\)$/gi, "");
+
   // regexes to match constituent parts of the search string
   // and isolate the search terms
 
@@ -154,7 +163,9 @@ export const extractNumerals = (inputString: string): MatchArray[string] => {
 };
 
 export const refineQuery = (inputString: string) => {
+  
   const queryObj = tokenize(inputString);
+  console.log(queryObj)
   const removedYears = xor(
     queryObj.sentence_tokens.normalized,
     queryObj.years.yearMatches,
diff --git a/src/client/shared/utils/tradepaperback.utils.ts b/src/client/shared/utils/tradepaperback.utils.ts
index dcd1a11..e569748 100644
--- a/src/client/shared/utils/tradepaperback.utils.ts
+++ b/src/client/shared/utils/tradepaperback.utils.ts
@@ -5,9 +5,8 @@ export const detectTradePaperbacks = (deck): any => {
     /((trade)?\s?(paperback)|(tpb))/gim, // https://regex101.com/r/FhuowT/1
     /(hard\s?cover)\s?(collect((ion)|(ed)|(ing)))/gim, //https://regex101.com/r/eFJVRM/1
   ];
-  const miniSeries = [
+  const miniSeries = [/mini\Wseries/gim];
 
-  ]
   const matches = paperback
     .map((regex) => {
       return deck.match(regex);
diff --git a/src/server/route/routes/importComics.routes.ts b/src/server/route/routes/importComics.routes.ts
index d3d0f30..06aa91b 100644
--- a/src/server/route/routes/importComics.routes.ts
+++ b/src/server/route/routes/importComics.routes.ts
@@ -5,14 +5,14 @@ import axios from "axios";
 router.route("/getComicCovers").post(async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
   typeof req.body === "object" ? req.body : {};
   await axios.request({
-    url: "http://localhost:3000/api/import/importComicsToDB",
+    url: "http://localhost:3000/api/import/processAndImportToDB",
     method: "POST",
     data: {
       extractionOptions: req.body.extractionOptions,
       walkedFolders: req.body.walkedFolders,
     },
   });
-  res.send({ po: "jo" });
+  res.send({ message: "Scan and import initiated." });
 });
 
 export default router;
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index b5c210d..64ec690 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -10986,6 +10986,11 @@ react-loader-spinner@^4.0.0:
   dependencies:
     prop-types "^15.7.2"
 
+react-masonry-css@^1.0.16:
+  version "1.0.16"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/react-masonry-css/-/react-masonry-css-1.0.16.tgz#72b28b4ae3484e250534700860597553a10f1a2c"
+  integrity sha512-KSW0hR2VQmltt/qAa3eXOctQDyOu7+ZBevtKgpNDSzT7k5LA/0XntNa9z9HKCdz3QlxmJHglTZ18e4sX4V8zZQ==
+
 react-modal@^3.12.1:
   version "3.14.3"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/react-modal/-/react-modal-3.14.3.tgz#7eb7c5ec85523e5843e2d4737cc17fc3f6aeb1c0"