Wow.
This, this, THIS!!!
AMAZING

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This is a promising interface. I hope that Google will further pursue innovative interfaces for digital libraries. It would be great if such an interface could also be used to represent personal ebook collections (e.g. from calibre, shellfary, or goodreads). I wrote a blog post about the topic: http://proto-knowledge.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/imagining-3d-digital-bookshelf-of-future.html

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It needs to be made so that it can be used with a touch screen. My computer is touch screen and it would not work. Another thing is it should have a way of searching. Just type in a letter and jump to all books with that letter or word on the cover. Make it so search could be made to search for any letter/word, or name. Maybe even make it so you don't even have to click on a search bar. Just start typing and the books will starting organizing. But put the search bar there for more advanced searches. Good idea.

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Love d concept..Looks great..for a book lover its like looking at an actual book shelf..although the graphics could be sharper and more clear..They are a little blurry..or maybe you can have a rotating shelf so less book in one snapshot and make them bigger...

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I have no word to appreciate

Very cool. Need some search capability to narrow selection beyond genre... i.e., title, author, publisher, publishing date, and some fuzzy searches would be cool.

Say I want to read the newest free book on metaphysics. You get the idea.

Lots of potential here. Very Cool.

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Can get a little buggy if your computer isn't very fast. it can also get a little confusing with the highlights of the books in the area you are viewing, might want to edit that so it will run smoothly...

It is nothing more than a fancy advertisement. You cannot read the books unless you purchase them so it is no different than a pretty Amazon web site. If it were a repository of open source books, then it would be awesome. You are wasting your time browsing here.

Dla czego ja nie mam tego?Eksperymentowac tak eksperymentowac-na całego...

This is a fantastic idea. Easy and intuitive book browsing.

Would be nice if open sourced.

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Very awesome collection of "experiments" but I have noticed that firefox actually presents WebGL pages better than chrome does, mind you not a whole lot better but a noticeable amount. For starters I have yet to have a WebGL page crash on me, but 1 out of 5 WebGL pages culminates in a runtime error.

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This book is very good!

I agree with what a few others are saying, a search device would be extremely handy. This could also be used as a new GUI for an entire computer or mobile device.

What about source code, so we can experiment a little more???

good play

nice appl. its all u need to customize your computer

this is nice and easy to organize your whole computer.

it is usable, if you could improve more the velocity and make possible to use zoom and a book search, this bookstore will be great.

Visually very impressive. Missing more detailed search function (by title, author, year of publication). Not sure I understand the advantage of QR code vs link for mobile download

como faço para aumentar as letras no livro? pois são pequenas demais. de qualquer modo, meus parabens pelo trabalho. e Feliz Ano novo2012

gostaria de saber como se acha um livro específico

gostaria de saber como faço para achar um livro específico, por ex: sobre livro em hotelaria, pois gostei muito desse trabalho de livros ou este tipo de biblioteca virtual na Internet

This is very impressive - I think this could be the way we look for books on line in future - great work

No me funciona en Chrome y Firefox 9, carga muy lento; ¿necesita requerimientos mínimos?

I Love this amazing Bookcase! And if the the speed of Browse page could faster (maybe just on 'Jump' is enough :) ) or let user could recognize the titles of books on the case directly would be better.

A bit too slow but a great idea!

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Google is so great! I hope you can do better! I do believe!

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In addition to a serious seacrh function would be useful to have substantial standard verified catalog info. for older or public domain materials , ie edition, (date and place of publication) editor, if any, etc.etc. - not just a copy of what is an apparent match drawn from Worldcat - ( what you call metadata ) or the mishmash presented by Google Books.

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Please support and.

This is really awesome - any way how could I link to specific book from our site (www.librarist.com) ? Cheers.

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Great idea and concept, there should be a search feature by title and or by Author when you get into a subject. Hard to read the titles on some books..

too dificult to find Platon :/

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Wow ,it seems everyday we are seeing new and inventive ways to do things that are both productive and useful...Google workers I applaud your efforts and hard work ...knowing full well that this took some serious thought and compromises...I standing clapping my hands to you great job!!!

I'm getting a cross-origin error on this one, is that supposed to happen?

i love books

Very nice job. It would be nice if you can see the cover books bigger. I can barely read the cover of many of them.

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Now that's what I'm talking about! Loving to read as much as I do, this is as handy as a pocket on a shirt! Great Job!!!

have not tried out as yet .

have not tried it out as yet but looks like tons of fun! i will do a follow up.

dont know what to expect but its from google, should be fun.

D+ Excelente.. Ótima experiencia...

Nossa muito criativo! Parabéns!

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Eu adorei a ideia,muito criativa.Mas acho que as miniaturas deveriam ser um pouco maiores.

adoreei. Muito bom *-*

gostei, super bacana e como faço pra adicionar no google chrome?

boom de mais , gostei bastante "

This is very perfect & wonderful.

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I love the idea but the thumbnails need to be bigger, the search function need to expand keyword, content (tropes maybe?) etc. and the needs to be sort options as well like having all the books in a series together or only new books or by author, price etc.

comme on it is interressant

nice step towards book search. but there must be "keyword " search too.

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Excellent idea, but as others have said: - Search functionality please; - Make the icons of the book covers much bigger (or allow the user to specify how big they need to be) as they are virtually unreadable (for being too small) in the carousel view; - See price of book (perhaps a switch-able toggle); - Link to 1-click purchase?; Good luck - look forward to seeing how it develops

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hmm my graphic card doesnt support webgl .

Great. Really like it. I suggest to increase the size of book thumbnail in order for the users to see what book are they really seeing, or give users control upon size of view, or present a bigger thumbnail upoon getting focus....in any case congratulations. It's really original and full of possibilities to enhance and explore.

This is the best welcome to the future of books. great job

What about searching this wonderful bookcase? Searching by keyword, title, author... Another tip, what about get this view from "My eBooks" It would be nice to have our preferred titles in this way...Nice job

Good job, really realistic! but to make it better you could improve the browsing pages experience. I really don't like google books preview, it's not intuitive and it doesn't show enough. making a randomic browsing based on the time you press the mouse button could give a "something like" thumbing the real book.

Great experiment! It would be nice if one could use this to browse your home comp epub library. For example, one provides a library xml file like iTunes xml, and the bookcase app displays it.

Wonderful, this takes the wysiwyg to a whole different stage of imagination.

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Very nice , but on my Mac running Lion, if you use touchpad scrolling gestures the stack rotates and pans backward. I suspect you reversed the scrolling behavior to correct the behavior of pre-Lion (and every other window system's) scroll behavior. Better check the OS to decide which way to scroll!

Needs some kind of a subject or keyword-based search function so you don't have to spend the time browsing all the covers if you're looking for something more specific.

Love it, love it, love it!! A virtual bookstore on my own computer. Browsing my way through everything that captures my eye or interest. I'm already addicted. The only thing missing are preview pages. But still: love it, love it, LOVE IT!

I could not read any single book of this web library.

Worked great on my computer. Pictures were a little bit slow loading but only a little bit.

For iPad also please

Really cool experiment and a halfway decent way to browse books. However conducting a directed search doesn't seem possible. Didn't see any rhyme or reason on book organization aside from the categories. How about alphabetizing by author or book title? Even better, how about leaving organizational options in the user's hands. Some titles are very hard to read from the shelf.

Great, but Is it limited to books in English? And where is the search button?

Great, I love it. Is it limited to books in English only?

Its outstanding the way the library is shown. However, I wanted to search for a single book and I was unable to reach the title I wanted nor see with acccuracy the cover of the books.

Great proof of concept. Maybe add keyboard navigation (up/down to raise/lower spiral, left/right to spin it). Also, some sort of filtering (a la search by author)? Maybe sort by category, author, cost?

Cool... buy my computer didn't support webgl...

In a bookstore fiction is arranged alphabetically by author. Nonfiction by topic within a subject. If you do that it would make it much easier to find what one is looking for. It would also be great if there was an option to view all the other books that a selected author wrote.

fantastic technology its a pleasure to see great job i am become a fan instantly!!!

Beautiful. Love it. Very nicely done and useful with touch interface. Also we can browse books very fast but seeing so many choices so fast is also a challenge for the bookcase.

superb like

Where are my own Books, meine Bibliothek?

Is there a way I can search for a book....

I noticed when I choose to browse free books,most of the books that come up aren't actually free. I don't have a problem buying an e-book. I'd just like to be able to browse the free ones.

This is awesome! Thanks to Google Team.. really love it!

If you make the books easier to see then it will be perfect. At the moment the covers of the books are too small to see, and I use a 40 inch television for a monitor.

If you click on too many books it says you must be signed up otherwise I really like it :)

Would like to see some keyboard navigation. Arrow keys to pan up down, spin left right. Maybe tab to move to next category.

very nice, italian book please

please the Italian book

Terrible experiment, I don't wish for a library experience on my PC. I wish to find something I want or something interesting as quickly as possible without any flashy delays.

free book please

Really cool experiment and a halfway decent way to browse books. However conducting a directed search doesn't seem possible. Didn't see any rhyme or reason on book organization aside from the categories. How about alphabetizing by author or book title? Even better, how about leaving organizational options in the user's hands. Also have to agree with Jody W. Some titles are very hard to read from the shelf.

The bookshelf metaphor is not really needed. We can all imagine a physical book without the bookshelf. Seeing the cover is good though, and I suspect showing the cover in a more list like interface would actually be better.

the font used for the book synopsis is very poor. Use a Sans Serif so we can read it better.

Really hoping this is more than JUST AN EXPERIMENT!!

Terrific work. I'd like to be able to set different sorts of parameters for how and what the spiral shelf displays as well as get some way of reading the size/scale of the objects (rather than seeing them as covers). Congrats on this.

Nice, I would be cool if you could look at 'My LIbrary' so you could see your own books :)

Chrome team is the best!!!! really awesome

tried on chromebook and size of 'lazy susan' could have been bigger to make titles more legible.

Very nice interface! But would love to not have to select a book to be able to read the title. How about a zoom option?

Fabulous , will be using when you go live. Is it possible to have a direct search for a specific title or ISBN? and have the book covers enlarge as cursor goes over them . Well done to the team.

Fantastic experiment! It would be great to have such an interface on tablets or phones. For the website, is it possible to "get closer" to the bookcase so the book titles can be read easily?

Outstanding...

love it! Good Job, Chrome team!

This is really awesome - any way how could I link to specific book from our site (www.librarist.com) ? Cheers.