a library for the books you want to read

goals

• feel nice, look good
• will never recommend you any "bestselling" slop
• not dependent on interacting with a network of other users and trying to validate their tastes
• will, however, recommend you things that are not directly keyword related to what you're looking for
• fun, satisfying "browsing experience" with as close to the vibes of physically wandering the stacks as possible

design (in progress)

• depends on human-curated lists - there's no way to externally validate the quality of a book on any metric other than "a certain set of humans liked it" without access to all its contents
• only contains the human-curated lists you throw in - if you're like me, at least, you already have lots of these lists

why the name?

in the early 2000s ttrpg In Nomine (think Good Omens as a World of Darkness splatbook), yves is the archangel of destiny who maintains a slightly surreal, ominous library containing all knowledge in existence

notable features of the library of yves include:

• you will always find what you're looking for, or else something you didn't even know you were looking for
• but you will have to wander around for a while first, so if you don't actually want to read, you won't have a good time
• reshapes itself to every visitor, but has reliably extant areas that you can agree to meet people in
• represents the subconscious mind of god, maybe