Touch a spine, the book opens
On the wall the shelf never goes away. The volume opens with a 3D cover animation that lands pixel-aligned on the flipbook underneath.
A kiosk suite for rare book collections
The books nobody may touch,
turned with a fingertip.
EasyFlipbook turns manuscripts, incunabula and archive holdings into digital flipbooks your visitors can read on site. A totem, a touch wall and an editor to curate it all: no server, no connection, no installer.
- Windows 11 · x64
- FullHD 1920×1080 touch
- 100% offline
- Portable package
- 3
- applications, one shared library
- 0
- outbound connections: everything runs locally
- 48px
- guaranteed minimum touch target, always
- ∞
- volumes and pages per volume: no limit
The experience
The gesture is the real one: touch it, turn it, read it.
No manual, no on-screen instructions. Visitors recognise the object and already know what to do — because the shelf is the one in the room, and the page curls the way a page does.
Turn the pages, realistically
One realistic page-turn engine, shared by totem and wall: drag it, flick it, turn back. The paper has weight, shadow and resistance.
A library to choose from
On the totem the library is a full-screen grid of covers, with generous tiles built for fingers and an order set by the curator.
How it works
From the scan to the gallery, in three steps
The curator works on their own workstation. Once the library is ready, one folder is copied onto the station and the exhibit is live.
Import
PDFs or image folders. The Editor extracts the pages, reads the document metadata and prepares the covers. No manual file wrangling.
Curate
Place ⓘ markers on the pages and write the notes or translations. Position the spines on your shelf image. Tune colours, fonts, density and corner radii on the “Appearance” page — with a live preview.
Exhibit
Copy the folder onto the station, switch on Windows Assigned Access and it boots full-screen in kiosk mode. Every restart comes back ready.
The three applications
Two stations for the public, one for the curator
They share the data model, the page-turn engine and the visual identity. Each one is deployed separately, on the machine it belongs to.
FlipBook.Viewer
The totem
The close-reading station. A visitor picks a volume from the grid of covers and reads it full-screen.
- Touch-friendly cover grid, ordered by the curator
- Realistic page turning with true page curl
- ⓘ markers on the page: one tap opens the translation or the note
- Header with customisable title, logo and background
- Returns to the library on its own after a period of inactivity
FlipBook.WallViewer
The wall
The scenographic piece: your shelf image full-screen, on a touch monitor of 32 inches and up. The spines are the books.
- Your own shelf — the real bookcase, photographed or illustrated
- Even thin spines stay tappable: the hit area expands to 48 px
- 3D cover opening, auto-calibrated to the monitor it runs on
- The book opens as an overlay: the shelf never disappears
- Idle reset and an optional attract loop
FlipBook.Editor
The workbench
The curator's application, on an ordinary Windows workstation. It builds the library and decides how everything else looks.
- Library with drag-to-reorder and automatic saving
- PDF and image-folder import with page extraction
- Anchor editor: rectangles with 8 handles, drawn over the page
- Shelf editor: the same UX to place and rotate the spines
- “Appearance” page: 9 colours, fonts, density and roundness, no rebuild
Features
What a gallery needs, nothing more
Realistic page turning
Curl, shadow and inertia. One engine, identical on the totem and on the wall.
Translation markers
ⓘ anchors placed on the page: one tap opens a panel with the text and its source.
3D volume opening
The cover rotates open, then hands over to the flipbook it is pixel-aligned with.
Your own shelf
No generic bookcase: the wall uses the image you supply, spine by spine.
Runtime visual identity
Nine colours, font families and sizes, spacing density and corner roundness. No rebuild.
PDF and image import
Pages are extracted and prepared on import. Your source files stay where they are.
Hardened kiosk mode
Full-screen, always on top, escape shortcuts intercepted, Windows Assigned Access.
No network
All data lives on the local filesystem. No cloud, no accounts, no downtime.
Portable deployment
One self-contained folder and a ZIP. No installer, no administrator rights.
Gallery
In the room
Photographs from a live installation: touch wall, totem and projections.
Where it fits
Built for people who look after fragile things
EasyFlipbook was made for rare book collections, but the mechanic — a collection, a choice, a volume to leaf through — holds anywhere you need to show documents without handing them over.
- Museums and exhibitionsThe original stays in its case. The digital copy is read cover to cover, page by page.
- Historic librariesRare holdings consulted in the reading room with no requests, gloves or handling.
- Archives and foundationsRegisters, correspondence and photo albums made navigable for the public.
- Visitor centresA scenographic wall that tells the collection's story even when the room is quiet.
- Showrooms and trade fairsCatalogues and portfolios on a totem, with no print run to redo every year.
Technical specifications
What the room needs
- Operating system
- Windows 11 21H2 or newer, x64
- Runtime
- .NET 10 · WPF · Edge WebView2
- Totem
- FullHD 1920×1080 touch screen
- Wall
- Landscape touch monitor, 32″ and up, FullHD
- Touch
- Single-touch · 48×48 px minimum target
- Network
- None. Runs fully offline
- Data
- Local filesystem: JSON + images; only the disk sets a limit
- Capacity
- No limit on volumes or pages — 400-page volumes already in service
- Deployment
- Self-contained portable folder + ZIP
- Diagnostics
- Daily rolling logs per application
Frequently asked
The questions we always get
Does it need an internet connection?
Never. All content sits on the station's own disk. That is a design decision: an exhibition room cannot depend on the network, and a connectivity failure must not take the exhibit down.
Can I use my own PDFs?
Yes. The Editor imports PDFs and image folders; pages are extracted and prepared at import time. Live PDF rendering inside the flipbook is planned for a later release, but for the visitor the result is already identical.
Can I apply my own visual identity?
Yes, from the Editor. The “Appearance” page controls nine colours, font families and sizes, spacing density and corner roundness, plus the totem header's title, logo and background. Changes apply to totem and wall on their next start, without touching any code.
How many stations can I run?
As many as you need. Each station is a machine with its own copy of the data folder. The Editor lives on a separate workstation: it must not work on the same data folder while a station is in service.
What if a visitor leaves a book open and walks away?
After a configurable idle period the station returns to the library or to the shelf by itself. On the wall you can also enable an attract loop that invites interaction when the room is empty.
Is an installer or administrator access required?
No. Deployment is a self-contained folder you copy: the application carries its own runtime. Administrator rights are only needed to configure the Windows kiosk mode.
Let's talk
Tell us about your collection.
Send us a couple of lines about the holdings you want to exhibit and the space you have: we will come back with an installation proposal and a demo built on your own material.
Prefer email? info@jadisconsulting.com