[David_SQOX]

Nice site! Very clean/fast UI with a novel conceptualization, bookmarking it as I write this.

[efsgfssdf]

The design was probably inspired by the Letterform Archive's relatively new site https://oa.letterformarchive.org/?searchText=graphic

https://letterformarchive.org/news/the-online-archive-is-now...

[rzzzt]

Apple's own Books app was a famous example of moving the physical bookshelf to the screen. Strangely enough I can only find a handful of screenshots of it: http://thatkeith.com/articles/digital-skeuomorphism/

[lstamour]

Technically the screenshot you’ve linked to is the iOS 5 newsstand: https://www.cnet.com/culture/how-to-get-started-with-ios-5s-...

But yes, iBooks did start with the same design: https://www.redmondpie.com/ibooks-3.0-all-set-to-be-announce...