Nice! Many, many years ago, when Shelfie was shutting down, I was imagining we might want VR bookshelves one day, and I convinced Brewster to store Sheflie's spine and cover images over at the archive. Might be worth reaching out to see if they still have them. Spine images are a little hard to get; they're not part of the Amazon API, for instance.

Not a bookshelf, but it reminds me of something that Stripe did something similar here which is equally as cool.

https://press.stripe.com/

Something very similar was done a while ago by Petar Gyurov:

https://petargyurov.com/bookshelf/

Very cool! I love the animation. I worked on a similar interface inspired a while back for Open Library: https://openlibrary.org/explore . You have to go to "Settings > Book style > 3d-spine" to enable the effect

Super cool - reminds me of the Stripe press website https://press.stripe.com/

I do not own many leather-bound books, nor does my apartment smell of rich mahogony, but this gave me a wonderful idea for visualising what my many ebooks might look like through an AR or VR virtual library experience.

This is awesome!

If we want to extend this to be a whole virtual library, are there datasets that people know about for book covers?

One thing that would be cool is book spine datasets!

Looks great! One thing to consider would be adding some more specular lighting. Books in real life are shiny, and the render looks a bit flat.