Sketches / possible layouts

I've been sketching layouts of what my study of classic books will look like for our publication. I am interested in playing with the catalog format -- continuing to utilize the method of cataloging and recataloging information in order to generate new contrasts -- and displaying those results in a shopping or auction catalog format. I'm currently thinking of something with a bit of humor, like "Shop the History of Print!" This will provide the layout for exploring contrasts between the 100 Best Books of All Time, versus Amazon's Top 100 Free e-Book Downloads (updated every hour), and the Gutenberg Project's Top 100 Books downloaded over the past 30 days. I'm also considering working in tweet-length descriptions of books (perhaps displaying the oldest books on the best-of-all-time spectrum, described in 140 characters or less).

I've expanded my lists of "Bests" and am continuing to do so, while planning possible layouts and juxtapositions of my catalog pages -- contrasting full-length lists; top books by men and by women; the #1 best book on each of the lists I'm reviewing; best books by country around the world, and more. I am interested to see what kind of information these studies will return on what people are reading, how people read, what can be learned by changing reading habits over time as well as topical interests, and what forms will have longevity over time.