Wondrous Library

Visitors see your profile and only the books you've marked public, read-only. Share links go live with accounts.

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Drop a file here to press it into a new book, or click to choose one. Pictures and text come off each page as their own pieces, so they pop up.

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Wondrous Library

Make and share dimensional books: stories, journals, projects and planners that open like pop-up books.

Your books are saved on this device. An account keeps your profile and book list with you and lets you share a public shelf.

Your profile

Backup

Your books are saved inside this browser only. Save a backup file now and then, so nothing is lost if the browser is cleared. Open it in any browser or on another computer to bring your books back.

A square picture works best.

Changes save as you type. If you have an account, anyone using the site can see these details, so only add what you're happy to share.

New book

Add a PDF or images to build your book
How this book works
  1. In Read book, the closed book wears the same cover as on your shelf. Pick the Stage cover in Cover design for a little theatre that opens with curtains, doors, blinds or arches. Each spread shows two pages, and Previous on the first spread closes the book again.
  2. Pictures and text rise off the page and turn to face you. Each page has a Layout (Hover, Stage, Cascade, Orbit or Flat), and Lift sets how far pieces rise. Click a piece to bring it close enough to read.
  3. Use Next and Previous (or the arrow keys) to turn pages. Drag to tilt the book, scroll to zoom, double-click to reset.
  4. Form (at the top) changes how your pages sit in space: a Book, a Gallery wall, a Carousel, a Spiral, a Tunnel or a Constellation. Use Next and Previous, the arrow keys or click a page to travel to it.
  5. + Video adds a video or a looping GIF as a page, or onto a page. Click a playing video to hear it. Share can play the whole book and save it as a video.
  6. Edit pages shows the page list. Read book hides it so the book fills the screen.
  7. Tap a #tag at the top to show only matching pages.
Click anywhere to put it back

About Wondrous Library

Make and share dimensional books: stories, journals and projects you move through in depth, like a pop-up book.

The #hashtags and colour families are adapted from the Circle of Doing Research in Hands On Research for Artists, Designers & Educators (Rasch, Staal & Gijsen, 2024).

A student project in testing, not affiliated with or endorsed by Harvard University. Your books are saved in this browser only. Privacy and Terms

Cover design

Pick a style and a colour. Your shelf and the stage cover update straight away.

Your artwork
Video on the cover
How the stage opens
Colour

Add a video

Delete your account?

This permanently deletes your account, your profile and your saved book list from Wondrous Library's servers. It can't be undone.

Share this book

Play and record

Your book plays from the cover to the last page, and you get a video of it to post or send.

Share links need sign-in and sync, which come with Supabase in the real build. In this prototype, books stay in this browser.

About #hashtags

Tag any page to name a part of your process. Tap a tag to show only matching pages. Each colour is a tag family.

Adapted from the Circle of Doing Research in Hands On Research for Artists, Designers & Educators (Rasch, Staal & Gijsen, 2024).

Family names and colours are placeholders until the real list is added.