Launching today
Decem
Your reading life, beautifully shelved
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Your reading life, beautifully shelved
2 followers
Decem is a book tracker that shows your library as an actual shelf, not a spreadsheet. Rate books from 1.0 to 10.0, so an 8.4 and an 8.9 stop being the same four stars. Those ratings drive your For You picks, and each pick says why it's there. Scan a barcode to add a book, track your yearly goal and stats, start a book club with friends, and bring your Goodreads library over in a minute. No ads, nothing about you sold.
Hi! I built Decem on my own (w/ my friend claude) (:
I've tried to use Goodreads for years, and two things always bugged me: it looks like it's from 2013 (especially the website), and I've always been more inclined to rate things on a 10 pt scale.
So Decem does a few things differently. Your books sit on a shelf you actually want to look at, and you rate from 1.0 to 10.0. Your ratings drive your recommendations, and every pick tells you why it's there.
I wanted to keep the app focused on your own personal reading life — limiting the social media feel that other newer reading apps have. So the social side is narrow, allowing you to (optionally) share your reading history/taste and join a 'Book Club' with some friends.
If you're on Goodreads, you can bring your whole library over in about a minute, so you don't lose years of history.
I would love to hear directly from the reading community what you would like to see in an app like this.