Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks
1–10 of 67 posts
Re: Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks
#2This is awesome!
If we want to extend this to be a whole virtual library, are there datasets that people know about for book covers?
One thing that would be cool is book spine datasets!
Re: Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks
#3Very nice. I can imagine a publisher website using something like this to promote their books.
Re: Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks
#4How are the books sorted?
Re: Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks
#5Very cool!
I've wanted to build something similar to this for music. Some virtual environment where you can organize your albums on shelves and play them on a turntable.
You could even extend this so you have to walk to a store to buy new albums etc.
Re: Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks
#6How are the books sorted?
Right now books are sorted by author name (eek, I think first name--calibre has an author_sort field I should use), then series name, then series index.
Re: Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks
#7This is awesome! If we want to extend this to be a whole virtual library, are there datasets that people know about for book covers? One thing that would be cool is book spine datasets!
Most ebooks have embedded cover images that Calibre will automatically extract. I know of https://isbndb.com/ which has covers of some resolution but I've never tried using them before.
Re: Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks
#8Very nice. I can imagine a publisher website using something like this to promote their books.
Some already do.
Re: Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks
#9Is there a live demo or do we have to clone it to see it?
Re: Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks
#10Brandon Sanderson ftw!