Bookshelf: TBR & Reading Tracker

A beautiful, AI-assisted reading tracker app - Bye Goodreads

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A beautiful, AI-assisted reading tracker app - Bye Goodreads

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Bookshelf is a beautiful, AI-enhanced reading tracker app that helps people track their library, build a lasting reading habit, and better remember what they read. KEY FEATURES - Beautiful, intuitive design (unlike Goodreads) - Add any book, and organize your library to your heart’s content - Find your next favorite book with AI recommendations - Save highlights and quotes, then actually remember them with our Daily Review - Track and improve your reading stats, and stay motivated with streaks

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Bookshelf: TBR & Reading Tracker

Maker

Hi Product Hunt, I'm a recent college grad who loves designing and coding--and this is my first launch! I've been trying to read more lately, but I've realized that after I finish a book I rarely take the time to synthesize its key points or mentally prepare a summary to share with my friends/family when they ask what I've been reading. And once it's been a while, I have trouble remembering pretty much anything useful about the book at all (main characters, key themes, lessons to incorporate into my own life, etc). That's why I built Summarize (first just for myself, now for all of you!), a super simple app to help you actively remember what you read by providing you a single place to write out your thoughts and insights for your entire library. I'm happy to answer questions and I'm always open for feedback!

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7yr ago

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@alexgerrese Hey I think this idea is great. I always feel great when I finish a book then I get asked a question and don't remember a thing. lol. I will for sure check it out. Very cool. And congrats on the first launch.

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7yr ago

@alexgerrese Thats the great idea. The app will be very useful for me. Do you have an android app or plan to do it?

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7yr ago

This looks lovely! I do have two questions, though: do you have any plans for an iPad version, and is there a way to save quotes from whatever you’re reading?

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7yr ago

Bookshelf: TBR & Reading Tracker

Maker

@wahnxsinn I am currently working on an iPad version! Currently, the best way to save quotes from what you're reading would be to add them to the book's "Notes" section in the app.

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7yr ago

Great idea, well designed! Just some thoughts. I can't help but wonder, why starting with a mobile app? Writing a summary is much more easy with a keyboard, even for small-ish content creation. I see the need to do that on the go, but it doesn't seem it would be my go-to user behaviour. Hope you guys have success and look forward to use your app on my desktop. Cheers

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7yr ago

Hi Alexander! Great job on your first launch. Congrats! I totally suffer from the problem you chose and currently I’m trying to solve it by creating notes in Bear. I think it’s a great start. What would make the app more useful would me: * Goodreads integration. I’m already using it and would like to continue. Also, they have already solved the problem of multiple edditions * ability to create custom lists * rich text formatting in the notes to create a hierarchy with headings and highlight keywords * adding images to notes (sometimes I want to keep 1-2 diagrams from the book in my notes) * importing toc/chapter names to follow the structure of the book in the summary or just to help remember it I’m also wondering if adding 3 different kinds of notes per book isn’t an overkill. What’s the advantage of keeping them separated? Good luck!

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7yr ago

Congrats! I love the idea, minimalism and simplicity of your app! I've been using Goodreads, but I'm eager to switch (not a fan of Amazon) to something like Summarize. For me, it would be a great plus if I could import my books from Goodreads (no clue if this would be possible) so that I wouldn't have to start over. And I noticed that search doesn't work, I can only scan barcodes.

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7yr ago

Bookshelf: TBR & Reading Tracker

Maker

@jolien_van_hekke Great suggestion Jolien—I’ll look into it! On the search end, it seems that I wasn’t prepared for all the traffic I got today so I’m currently requesting a higher traffic quota so this doesn’t happen again—hopefully this will be fixed in the next few days!

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7yr ago

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@jolien_van_hekke @alexgerrese yes, goodreads import!

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7yr ago

She Codes

Congratulations on the launch Alexander. It's actually something I've been doing using a Trello board but having the book details is great for context and I think I would use this app. Although after installing it I'm not able to search for a book. Neither typing the book title, author, or scanning the ISBN.

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7yr ago

Bookshelf: TBR & Reading Tracker

Maker

@im_diogodantas Thanks for your feedback! Looks like I wasn’t prepared for all the traffic I got today—my daily Google Books API traffic quota was hit pretty fast! I’m currently requesting a higher quota so this doesn’t happen again so hopefully this will be fixed in the next few days!

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7yr ago

Bookshelf: TBR & Reading Tracker

Maker

@im_diogodantas This should be working now with my new update! Sorry that it wasn’t working before!

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7yr ago

@alexgerrese sorry to bother you but how do we actually read the books from this app or did i misunderstood the purpose of this app?

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6yr ago

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