Regarding a virtual browse of the shelves: I'm not sure it will work very well for a collection of, say, 2 million volumes. Maybe I'm just too tied to text and books covers would work fine, but seems like it would be unwieldy with very large collections.
--Steven Harris
>>> "Stephens, Owen" <o.stephens_at_IMPERIAL.AC.UK> 6/25/2008 2:12 am >>>
Well, it's cute, but I'm not convinced this kind of 'real life' analogy style interface works particularly well on computers. I remember several years ago seeing a description of a 'virtual desktop', that looked like a real desk, and where you had to 'go to the post office' to send an email - what a pain, when you can just click send!
I think experimentation should be encouraged and so it is really nice to see this type of thing being tried, but I tried to use it and found it incredibly clunky - it has impact, but I don't personally believe it has staying power - personally I wouldn't use it instead of Amazon to browse.
Owen
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