@deianeira glad to hear it! let me know how it goes for you.
@grantcuster @praxeology I feel like this is something up your alley
@liaizon @grantcuster Yeah it's some very nice #screenless design. I already boosted it!
Makes me think of the 17th Century multi-book reading machine: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pluriverse/2477960964
Also the Kardex and similar visible file systems that were well loved in the medical field:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_file
@praxeology @grantcuster that is a depressingly sparse wikipedia page for a topic I would imagine wikipedia nerds would have written many paragraphs about. I love those things, a friend of mine has a large one like the one on the picture in their studio
@praxeology @liaizon that multi-book machine is great and sort of tempting.
@grantcuster @liaizon I would need a studio about 3x as big as I have but it's a pretty nice design. You could get yourself an old Roubo saw and just go for it. https://www.fine-tools.com/rouboframesaw.html
@praxeology @liaizon yea there's no way I can justify the wheel space-wise at this point. I am planning to build a storage cabinet for swappable desktops, though.
@grantcuster @liaizon The circle is beautiful but if you want something more space efficient you could go for a kind of "paternoster" mechanism. Maybe you could hack a rug-by-the-meter or similar XL rotisserie machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster_lift
@grantcuster re holding books open: look into book snakes. They're not super googleable, so here:
https://collation.folger.edu/2019/05/snakes-on-a-book/
I've only ever used them with hardbacks, so ymmv.
@phooky ah cool! I had looked around before and ordered a Book Bone, which seems like a variation of the beanbag form.Will see how that goes and then maybe also try a 'weighted drapery sausage bead' as well.
@phooky @grantcuster The original Library Bureau catalog from 1890 has a few nice ideas for multi-book reading setups:
https://archive.org/details/classifiedillust00librrich/page/142/mode/2up
@praxeology @phooky nice find! I like how some of these are functionally monitor arms... thinking about a set of monitor and physical book hybrid stand...
@grantcuster @phooky Yeah I was thinking similar thoughts as I saw these. Maybe I will also try to hack the old monitor arm I have in my studio.
Although, if I knew a blacksmith, it would be tempting to try to cook up something slightly kitch with ogee curved metal styling.
@grantcuster This is a missing part of my workflow. Thank you for sharing this :)