Acervus

A cypherpunk's library — a personal collection of good public-domain reads.

A small landing page for a curated, public-domain book collection. The hero features an infinite 3D book carousel that auto-scrolls and reacts to the cursor (the book under the cursor lifts off the row as the marquee eases to a near-stop and names itself beneath the shelf), over a light "paper" background.

Everything in the collection is public domain — nothing to take down. For everything else, there's Anna's Archive, LibGen, and the torrents.

Stack

• Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript
• Plain CSS Modules (no UI framework)

Develop

npm install
npm run dev      # http://localhost:3000
npm run build    # production build

Adding books

The collection is a data array in lib/books.ts. Every book is shown as a typographic cover — its title set in the display face on a solid plate colour — so there are no cover images to manage. A new entry looks like:

{
  slug, title, author,   // identity; slug → /book/[slug]
  color, h,              // plate colour (keep it dark — the title sits on it in light type) + shelf height in px
  description, year,     // shown on the book page
  // …plus ONE reading mode, in priority order:
  pdf,                   // a PDF under /public/books (reads inline / opens in a tab), or
  external,              // a URL to the full work elsewhere (a link-out), or
  source,                // the URL a reproduced text came from (its prose lives in content/texts, keyed by slug)
}

The shared series label and the spine thickness t are folded in for every book, so you don't set them per entry.

Tuning the carousel

The look of the 3D shelf is driven by CSS variables at the top of components/bookshelf.module.css (.shelf):

Variable	Controls
--persp	perspective depth
--tilt-x	downward look angle
--tilt-ry	plane recede (left near, right far)
--tilt-z	diagonal rise toward the right
--shelf-scale	overall book size
--tilt-bottom	vertical position of the row
--book-ry	per-book turn (reveals the page edge)
--book-w	cover width
--book-overlap	spacing between books

The marquee speed and focus response (SPEED, LIFT, POP, SCALE) live at the top of components/BookShelf.tsx.