Circulante: a peer-to-peer library
Circulante is a site to allow groups to turn their personal book and movie collections into a collective circulating library. Circulante was designed to encourage book and movie sharing among friends and colleagues.
To make a book or
disk available in Circulante, users don't have to give up their
ownership, as one of the aims is to make book lending safer to people
who have many books and like to share, but hate to loose track of them.
Circulante also allows people to donate books to a book commons, a collectively owned circulating book collection.
Read about it.
Circulante also allows people to donate books to a book commons, a collectively owned circulating book collection.
Read about it.
Demo pages
These are some HTML pages captured from the first prototype, called Wandering Books, built in 2006.
This is not the real system, so clicking on links will lead to missing pages.
Use the Back button in your browser to return here after each page.
- Adding a book, step 1: enter ISBN
- Adding a book, step 2: CatBot got the data
- Adding a book, step 3: the book is in the table
- Alice's personal catalog with about 30 books
- Book detail page
- Login page
- Personal catalog with more than 200 books
- Wiki: About Wandering Books
- Wiki: the "book commons" concept explained
- Wiki: user accounts for testing
