Found this the other day - a website that takes a shelf from Goodreads and turns it into a digital bookshelf using images of book spines.
I found this quite cool as a way to display books I've read that might be a mix of digital and physical.
When I first tried it, it was missing quite a few of the book spines. However you can submit your own by finding the spines online and giving the dimensions. At this point I've submitted the majority of my missing ones - the website provides fake covers if you like.
If you give it a go, the shelf name is case sensitive so be careful with that. And the book dimensions are in inches if you decide to submit any.
Why would I want to do this on a website, instead of locally?
No, thanks.
It doesn't do anything, it's just cool to look at. Why on earth would you demand it run locally? It's just displaying data from a publicly-accessible webpage in an interesting way
If you don't see the value in looking at this fun little project on a website, something tells me you don't value it enough to download and run it, anyway.
Like I say, if you read digital books only or a mix of physical and digital it's a cool way to see everything in one place.
This is just some dude's github project, it doesn't have any adverts or charges.
Goodreads is already something you don't host locally. So if you are on that, this becomes a non-issue. Someone with your reservations on that topic (and I agree with you!) wouldn't even use Goodreads to start with.
You have autonomy? Easy solution: Don't use it.
while your reading list could be considered your personal data, this website generates an image based on your goodreads account, which is already public. so this website doesn't require you to give it any additional personal data