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I made a virtual bookshelf for book reviews

by mjdiloreto on 7/31/22, 8:49 PM with 18 comments

• by mjdiloreto on 7/31/22, 8:49 PM

  This is based on Peter Gyurov's work which he shared here a couple months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31293727.

  I loved the idea and wanted to use it for my site, but I also wanted to give my reviews of the books and thought it would be fun if you could click the books to expand them.

• by wan888888 on 8/1/22, 12:02 AM

  I'm just leaving this here as future inspiration: http://press.stripe.com

• by saasxyz on 8/1/22, 7:09 AM

  I think some books have no cover image, you can display book title on a background so that it won't behave weirdly.

• by Theodores on 8/1/22, 12:04 AM

  Don't Make Me Think.

  When I see this I think about the animations, spotting small UX oddities that go against convention.

  I can't remember a thing about the books though.

  And that is why Amazon don't present their books like this!

  Keep going though, but you have to have things like text at an agreed minimum font size and you have to make the interface accessible. Only if you have thought through those parts and got solutions can you dare to do anything new these days online.

  I sound critical but I like seeing things like this far more than Amazon's web pages, it is just theirs get my money.

• by kumarm on 7/31/22, 11:56 PM

  Nice. But both yours and Peter Gyurov's work seem to have issue on Mobile with click?

  Screenshots for your site and Peter Gyurov's site on iPhone Chrome: 1. https://i.imgur.com/BHZ6XVQ.png 2. https://i.imgur.com/oPP5bcs.png

• by j_crick on 8/1/22, 8:54 PM

  This is unusable on iPad because an open book seems to be covered by closed ones.

  https://imgur.com/a/oOglVlv

• by issung on 7/31/22, 11:27 PM

  Love the 3d effect, is it pure CSS? Also once I click on a book I can't close the popup, have to refresh the page.

• by lloydatkinson on 7/31/22, 11:22 PM

  Why can't you close any of the books once opened?