I've wanted something like this so that I can have a custom bookshelf behind me in teams calls. I was tempted to make one but had no clue where to find book spine artwork.
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#22Super cool - reminds me of the Stripe press website https://press.stripe.com/
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#23Reminds me of Microsoft Bob
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#24Very cool! I love the animation. I worked on a similar interface inspired a while back for Open Library: https://openlibrary.org/explore . You have to go to "Settings > Book style > 3d-spine" to enable the effect
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#25This 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!
Open library has covers/metadata; alas no spines! I built an interface similar to this for Open Library using library classifications for sorting: https://openlibrary.org/explore
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#26Not a bookshelf, but it reminds me of something that Stripe did something similar here which is equally as cool.
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#27Great. Back when quirky.com was a product idea site, I proposed a piece of furniture that would be a bookshelf for ebooks (large e-ink screen cabinet).
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#28I miss all the cool animations and loving touches like this in Apple’s iBooks.
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#29Looks: nice
Usability: useless
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#30I do not own many leather-bound books, nor does my apartment smell of rich mahogony, but this gave me a wonderful idea for visualising what my many ebooks might look like through an AR or VR virtual library experience.