Hardcover book effect for Obsidian Bases

Oct 26, 2025 · 5:03 PM UTC

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This was great and easy to set up. Now I have a reason to go get higher quality images for my book covers. Thanks! Btw, what's the sepia theme you're using?
Flexoki
Flexoki is an inky color scheme for prose and code that I created for my personal site. It's now open source. Flexoki is designed for reading and writing on digital screens. It is inspired by analog printing inks and warm shades of paper. The name Flexoki comes from flexography — a common printing process for paper and cardboard. I spent many years working with dyes and inks particularly for my companies Inkodye and Lumi. I also have a fascination with digital paper. I wanted to bring the comfort of analog color to emissive digital screens. One challenge is that ink on paper is a subtractive process whereas LCD and OLED screens use additive color. Replicating the effect of mixing pigments digitally is difficult. Mixing blue and yellow paint creates green, whereas digital color mixing results in a brownish hue. Watercolors retain their saturation when you dilute them, whereas reducing the opacity of digital colors makes them look desaturated. Another challenge with digital color is human perception across color spaces. Ethan Schoonover’s color scheme Solarized (2011) was an important inspiration for Flexoki. His emphasis on CIELAB lightness relationships helped me understand how to find colors that appear cohesive. I found that choosing colors with perfect perceptual consistency can be at odds with the distinctiveness of colors in practical applications like syntax highlighting. If you adhere too closely to evenness in perceptual lightness you can end up with a palette that looks washed out and difficult to parse. Solving for all of these problems is how I arrived at Flexoki. I wish it could have been more science than art, but it wasn’t. Some day, I hope to arrive at a more reliable way to generate digital color palettes that respect the constraints I laid out. In the meantime, I hope you find this iteration of Flexoki useful.
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Curious to know where your author links go to? And are you using the book search plugin or something else?
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Looks really nice!
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Is it possible to import a Calibre library into Obsidian? Many of us use Calibre as a specialized librarian. Thanks.
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you're building an OS
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The way I am showing books 📚
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skeuomorphic design in 2024. we've come full circle from minimalism back to making digital books look physical
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i want to do project management in obsidian, because notion holds all data on their servers, and i don't want that
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totally stolen from josefchladek.com
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very memex-y
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The same obsidian I use? This has to be some alternate timeline
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Love this! I embedded my books base in a Books page and gave it the CSS class 'bookbase'. Then I wrapped all this code in that CSS class and now it just works on that page. It looks awesome! Thanks so much!
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Love the notion inspo, super cool!
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this is mymind right?
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Looks really nice!
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Can we use obsidian like a ebook reader?! 🔥
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looks pretty cool!
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this looks like the library i always dreamed of having but in digital form.. guess technology finally caught up with my childhood fantasies haha
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So cool
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Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda is 💯🤌
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This looks beautiful. How does one do this?
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Reading a book carefully is better than admiring its cover
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Anything Neil Postman is a must. If you haven’t already, read ‘Technopoly’ by him.
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I copied the CSS snippet and activated it, but it didn't work. Version 1.9.14 is installed.
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Hello @kepano , how are you? Some users, mainly in South America, are having trouble downloading plugins or themes for Obsidian through the app — can you provide support on Discord?
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this looks so good!
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We lost the Plot 😔
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Oh. That’s fancy.
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@readwise save thread