diff --git a/backend/resources/book.json b/backend/resources/book.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 62a6e6f..0000000
--- a/backend/resources/book.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-[
-    {
-      "id" : "978-0641723445",
-      "cat" : ["book","hardcover"],
-      "name" : "The Lightning Thief",
-      "author" : "Rick Riordan",
-      "series_t" : "Percy Jackson and the Olympians",
-      "sequence_i" : 1,
-      "genre_s" : "fantasy",
-      "inStock" : true,
-      "price" : 12.50,
-      "pages_i" : 384
-    }
-  ,
-    {
-      "id" : "978-1423103349",
-      "cat" : ["book","paperback"],
-      "name" : "The Sea of Monsters",
-      "author" : "Rick Riordan",
-      "series_t" : "Percy Jackson and the Olympians",
-      "sequence_i" : 2,
-      "genre_s" : "fantasy",
-      "inStock" : true,
-      "price" : 6.49,
-      "pages_i" : 304
-    }
-  ,
-    {
-      "id" : "978-1857995879",
-      "cat" : ["book","paperback"],
-      "name" : "Sophie's World : The Greek Philosophers",
-      "author" : "Jostein Gaarder",
-      "sequence_i" : 1,
-      "genre_s" : "fantasy",
-      "inStock" : true,
-      "price" : 3.07,
-      "pages_i" : 64
-    }
-  ,
-    {
-      "id" : "978-1933988177",
-      "cat" : ["book","paperback"],
-      "name" : "Lucene in Action, Second Edition",
-      "author" : "Michael McCandless",
-      "sequence_i" : 1,
-      "genre_s" : "IT",
-      "inStock" : true,
-      "price" : 30.50,
-      "pages_i" : 475
-    }
-]
-  
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/backend/src/main/scala/snorri/Book.scala b/backend/src/main/scala/snorri/Book.scala
index d51bc1b..3167f02 100644
--- a/backend/src/main/scala/snorri/Book.scala
+++ b/backend/src/main/scala/snorri/Book.scala
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package snorri
 
 import io.circe.{Encoder, Decoder}
-import io.circe.generic.semiauto._
+import io.circe.generic.semiauto.*
 
 // NOTE: Not yet reading series_t,sequence_i and cat
 case class Book(
diff --git a/backend/src/main/scala/snorri/Snorri.scala b/backend/src/main/scala/snorri/Snorri.scala
index 55e22bb..2f809f2 100644
--- a/backend/src/main/scala/snorri/Snorri.scala
+++ b/backend/src/main/scala/snorri/Snorri.scala
@@ -38,9 +38,7 @@ object Snorri {
     }
 
   private def retrieveBooks(): String =
-    use(booksResource()) { src =>
-      src.mkString
-    }
+    use(booksResource())(_.mkString)
 
   private def booksResource(): BufferedSource = {
     val stream = getClass.getResourceAsStream("/book.json")
diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index 0aab136..92a186a 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ ThisBuild / tlCiHeaderCheck := false
 val commonSettings = Seq(
   libraryDependencies ++=
     "org.creativescala" %% "krop-core" % "0.6.0" ::
-      Modules.circe :::
-      Nil
+      Modules.circe
 )
 
 lazy val snorriRoot =