RE.ORDER a dotted.space product

Every book on your shelves, findable — without taking one off.

RE.ORDER turns photographs of your shelves into a searchable inventory that knows where each book is standing. You walk the aisles with a phone. Nobody handles a book.

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Der Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse

Bay A Shelf 3 7th from left 134 mm

What you get

An inventory, a catalogue, and a shop if you want one

An answer at the counter

Search by title, author or ISBN and you get the shelf, not just a yes. Which bay, which row, how far along it — and the photograph of that row with the book outlined on it, so you walk straight to it.

“Do you have Steppenwolf?” Two copies. Bay A, shelf 3 — seventh from the left.

A catalogue your customers can browse

Publish it as a site of its own. People see what is on your shelves before they set out, and arrive asking for something you actually have. Nothing to list: the catalogue is the inventory.

A webshop, if you want to sell online

We can build one on top of that catalogue — orders, reservations, postage. If you would rather not, it stays a window: people browse, then come in, call, or put a book aside.

Keeping it true

As current as your last walk down the aisle

Photograph a row again whenever it suits you — every morning, once a week, after a big intake.

RE.ORDER compares the row against the last time it saw it and only looks closely at what changed, so a shelf nobody touched costs almost nothing to read again. Books sold, books shelved, books moved to another bay: all of it lands in the catalogue without anyone typing.

Where this is

Early, and looking for the first shops

RE.ORDER is being built now, and we would like a small number of second-hand bookshops to build it with — and private collectors whose library has outgrown their memory. You would get the system as it develops, and a real say in what it does next.

Tell us roughly how many books you have and what you would want first. We will answer honestly about what works today and what does not.

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