A familiar cover. An unexpected find.Take your time. See what stands out.
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What if browsing books online felt a little more like a happy accident in a bookshop?
This is a small experiment in that feeling. One hundred books, four at a time. Scroll and they rise to meet you. Keep going and they settle back down.
The editions, page counts, and front covers come from Open Library. Where available, we use the catalog’s physical dimensions. Otherwise, height uses a typical book format, width follows the cover’s proportions, and thickness is estimated from page count. Each book’s details tell you which.
Back covers use matching scans where available, with a solid color sampled from the front for the rest. Move across a book to turn it over. In its details, drag it around, flip it, or open the cover. Spines, endpapers, and title pages are drawn rather than scanned; their text comes from the catalog record.
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