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hugoheitz · 11-20-2014, 05:54 AM

Right now I am working at home to create a playroom for my kids.
I needed to remove my books to be able to move the bookshelf out of the room to change the floor.
So I have moved all my physical library in boxes and after that, my wife and I began to ask ourselves :
can we get rid of the bookshelf ? (it is pretty massive : 2,2 meters large by 2,2 meters height by 0,6 meters deep)...
Big challenge !
So we tried to sort our books, etc... We put shelves in a closet we had not yet fully used...
In the end we get rid of the bookshelf ! It frees up a lot of space in the room...

At this point : I was asking myself :
OK, we get rid of our music (no more CDs) , our videos (no more tapes or DVDs) and now is the turn of our books...

But at the same time, I was kind of sad because I thought :
"how to be able to share the books I like and to see the books on the shelves the way I saw them before ?"

I search about digital shelves and found this interesting article :
http://proto-knowledge.blogspot.fr/2...of-future.html

So I am asking, is it just me or is there anyone else who want to be able to see not the cover but the side of it ? And maybe walk in the bookshelves ?
(the best image I could think was this scene in Matrix where they get in the weaponry and all sort of shelves loaded with guns come from the ground to be all around them...)

For the first part : is it doable within MyReadings to present not covers but sides of books (based on the lenght of the book) ?...

Thanks for your thoughts !

11-20-2014, 05:54 AM	#84
hugoheitz Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Brest, France Device: kobo touch, kindle paperwhite, Asus TF101	Imagining the bookshelf of the future Right now I am working at home to create a playroom for my kids. I needed to remove my books to be able to move the bookshelf out of the room to change the floor. So I have moved all my physical library in boxes and after that, my wife and I began to ask ourselves : can we get rid of the bookshelf ? (it is pretty massive : 2,2 meters large by 2,2 meters height by 0,6 meters deep)... Big challenge ! So we tried to sort our books, etc... We put shelves in a closet we had not yet fully used... In the end we get rid of the bookshelf ! It frees up a lot of space in the room... At this point : I was asking myself : OK, we get rid of our music (no more CDs) , our videos (no more tapes or DVDs) and now is the turn of our books... But at the same time, I was kind of sad because I thought : "how to be able to share the books I like and to see the books on the shelves the way I saw them before ?" I search about digital shelves and found this interesting article : http://proto-knowledge.blogspot.fr/2...of-future.html So I am asking, is it just me or is there anyone else who want to be able to see not the cover but the side of it ? And maybe walk in the bookshelves ? (the best image I could think was this scene in Matrix where they get in the weaponry and all sort of shelves loaded with guns come from the ground to be all around them...) For the first part : is it doable within MyReadings to present not covers but sides of books (based on the lenght of the book) ?... Thanks for your thoughts !