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by randomcatuser 508 days ago
Nice work!

Things I love:

- How every book has a title & link to the google books

- Information density - You can see various publishers, sparse areas of the grid, and more

- Visualization of empty space -- great work at making it look like a big bookshelf!

Improvements?

- Instead of 2 floating panels, collapse to 1

- After clicking a book, the tooltip should disappear once you zoom out/move locations!

- Sort options (by year, by publisher name)

- Midlevel visualization - I feel like at the second zoom level (groupings of publishers), there's little information that it provides besides the names and relative sparsity (so we can remove the ISBN-related stuff on every shelf) Also since there are a fixed width of shelves, I can know there are 20 publishers, so no need! If we declutter, it'll make for a really nice physical experience!