zoomii visual amazon store

1 July 2008

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a visual bookshelf browser of over 21,000 books from Amazon's catalog. books are visualized as stacks in shelves, with covers ordered alphabetically by author & organized by genre. following the typical Google Map interaction metaphor,users can click & drag across Zoomii's landscape of shelves, zoom in & out, or select a book's cover to receive basic statistical information.

[link: zoomii.com|via arstechnica.com]

see also:
. Amazon book map
. another Amazon book map
. amaznode
. oskope Amazon graphs
. viewzi book view

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comments

I think this is a really good idea, and works pretty fast.

uh, it looks like it might be time to check those spam filters.

21,000 books looks nice, could even have it as wall paper in my house.

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