iamphilsharp

Holy moly...great thoughts! Thanks for the feedback jgj.

Most people I've talked to about this in the past few hours have more than two pillows. Turns out I'm the only sucker with not enough pillows :).

Thank you for the detailed thoughts. That's exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. I appreciate you taking the time to help :).

That's what I was thinking too. Not quite sure how to make it happen automatically yet...so far this was very manual.

What do you think of being able to send an email somewhere...and then a little bit later the book is added automatically?

Uh oh. Thanks for letting me know. I'll add that to the list of "Things to fix if people actually like this idea" :)

This isn't available for others to try yet. Before I put a lot of work into the idea I wanted to see if anyone else found it worthwhile.

I read a lot of books these days, but for the most part they're digital. Because of that, they're not staring at me on a bookshelf and I find myself forgetting what I've read. Most importantly, I find myself forgetting the memories attached to those books.

Before e-books, I'd have physical copies that would remind me of specific moments in my life. It was nice to see a few books and think, "Oh yeah, that was when I lived in San Francisco and met my girlfriend," or "oh yeah, that book reminds me of my family back in Southern California."

I wanted to get that feeling back. The feeling of being able to look through my past...but by using books. I put this together as something quick and easy to make me happy.

In fact, all the code can be found here: http://tympanus.net/codrops/2011/12/05/lateral-on-scroll-sli.... If folks are interested in the idea then please let me know and I'll see about making something that we all can use.

This is just my way of showing the quick idea :).

I'm very excited by this, but also VERY skeptical. I was using Codecademy for months to learn Javascript, HTML and CSS but recently stopped because the course quality was getting very poor. It seems like they spent a lot of time developing the first 1-2 months of lessons, and then started winging it from there.