Re:Cassettes Are Back, and It’s Not About the Music
by kd5bjo on Saturday August 03, 2019 @05:36PM
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It used to be that when you visited someone’s place, you’d see their collection of books, or music, or movies, or games sitting on a shelf and it was a low-friction way to find something in common to talk about. Now that everyone’s collections are digital, it’s all “out of sight, out of mind” and nothing has really replaced that function.
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Re:Cassettes Are Back, and It’s Not About the Music
by Wistar on Saturday August 03, 2019 @11:18PM
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Maybe there's a market for a bookshelf populated with (OLED? E-Paper?) digital label displays that mimic real book spines and upon which are displayed the titles from your digital book library. It can also have shelves with displays mimicking CD spines with the titles taken from your music library.
It would serve no purpose beyond being a skeumorphic conversation starter and visual reminder of your media. Of course, it'd have an app that allowed the user to vary the logic used to choose the titles to be displayed by genre, chron, or some social purpose, i.e., I want to look smart or I want to impress a date, I don't want a political fight on Thanksgiving, etc.
Re:Cassettes Are Back, and It’s Not About the Music
by esrauch on Sunday August 04, 2019 @04:18AM
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I think even if this existed it would naturally become a vanity thing ("oh yes, I've read War and Peace") and not include Shades of Grey or whatever you're actually reading.
Physical shelves already suffered from that a bit (people would use them to display books they were prod of), but it being a purely display and not necessary storage would do the rest.
Re:Cassettes Are Back, and It’s Not About the Music
by avip on Saturday August 03, 2019 @06:41PM
(#20603175)
Open their fridge.
Re:Cassettes Are Back, and It’s Not About the Music
by hueving on Sunday August 04, 2019 @01:05AM
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That's very invasive. I keep all of my underwear in there in the summer.