Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-29620769-20171226092227/@comment-33185350-20171226151405

I actually had planned on suggesting this sometime. I would really like to see this added. Here’s how I would do it:

- The book stand is crafted like so: except the output would be a book stand. Any type of slab could be used (I just couldn’t find a gif of all of them). Maybe sticks could be used instead of fence in the middle.

- When placed it is about one and a half blocks tall from the ground.

- When placed it will have a GUI like an armour stand, including a slot where a book can be placed and/or removed. It can only hold one book at a time. You will only open the GUI if you are holding a book, lore text, Red Book, Book and Quill, or Map. It can hold any of these.

- When you first place the book it will be open to the first page.

- If you right-click on the stand, depending on which side of the book you click, you will flip pages forwards or backwards. You cannot close the book though.

- Anybody should be able to flip pages on banner protected book stands, but they cannot interact with the GUI.

- The way the book faces when placed will depend on the orientation you placed the stand in, much like armour stands.

- It would be awesome if you could craft a stand with a colored carpet to decorate them.

- It would be really awesome also if a feather pen and ink bottle model could appear on stands with a book and quill. This should be easy to do: The already implemented glass bottle model, filled with black liquid, and with a feather texture sticking out of it.

— Additionally it would be so cool if you (or anyone) could write in a book and quill if it wasn’t banner protected. You could ask people to sign in to guest books, etc. I am not sure what control to use for this though.

That’s how I envision this idea. It would make builds like libraries so much cooler!