While I really like the animation and the idea, there is such a missed opportunity here too.

What I'm getting at is that since the idea was to create an entire city of books (which they did very well), it could have gone much further instead of just using many of the same books over and over again - Franzen's "The Corrections" is used how many times?

This short should have pushed a bit further and made each district of the city more unique with a wider diversity of books. There should have been a seedy side of town with bad romance novels and crime thrillers, an otaku side of town with sci-fi books, the hipster district with Kafka (and Franzen if you just gotta have him) and the capital should have been built from more prestigious works from political scientists.

I just would have liked to see this fleshed out just a bit more because otherwise this is a great idea and is really well made.