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.

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[–] Gexilla@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This would be great to see with BookWyrm integration!

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

It would be great to see anything integrate with Bookwyrm.

[–] decended_being@midwest.social 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Story Graph is great too!

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes I highly recommend Storygraph - the stats and overall UI are great. I only created a Goodreads account in order to try out this bookshelf tool. I'd much prefer Storygraph integration!

[–] MacStainless@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure why it's not working for me, but it only finds 19 books when I've read 179. Tried a few times, but no dice. Hopefully it'll improve. Would love to see this work with StoryGraph.

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

I did have a similar problem in that it didn't pick up half the books from my default 'Read' shelf. Maybe try creating a new Goodreads shelf and see if that works?

[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Damn, OP. Didn’t even list or link the website!

EDIT: You added it! Yay! Thanks!

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah sorry I messed up xD

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What's that "Alex" series? It looks fun.

[–] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And why is it not ORDERED!?

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes that annoyed the hell out of me! I'll see if I can contact the dev to fix it.

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's the Alex Rider series! I read them as a kid and loved them. The protagonist is basically a child 007. There were gadgets such as a Gameboy with a hidden microphone and smoke machine, which I found extremely cool when I was younger. Not sure how well they'd hold up as an adult.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

TY!

[–] hash@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Love this idea! I've come around to the idea of releasing some of my physical copies into the wild so they can find new readers and this sorta fills the gap of still wanting them around. A 3D version of this had occurred to me as particularly impactful. A big virtual library of every book I've ever read and 3D scanned trinkets/memories I let go of rather than hoard. My own virtual "rich man's study."

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

The concept of a virtual library is pretty much exactly what I was after when I came across this website!

I'd love some kind of game to this effect where you could invite friends to your library, show off/discuss your favourite books and just hang around and chat. Something akin to Animal Crossing, allowing you to decorate your library however you like but with the added physicality of being able to take books off the shelf and reorganise them.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Why would I want to do this on a website, instead of locally?

No, thanks.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] meta4@retrolemmy.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

You have autonomy? Easy solution: Don't use it.

[–] renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

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