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Products that do what Book Corners does

A community map for little free libraries and book exchanges

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   bookclub▲394

   A beautiful, simple alternative to Goodreads 📚

   2018

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   BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence▲562

   2022 · bookstackapp.com

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   Bookey▲74

   Meet new people and swap your old books!

   2019

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   3D Book Image CSS Generator▲638

   2020 · 3d-book-css.netlify.app

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   Shufflebook▲86

   Exchange used books locally

   2019

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   Hardcover▲309

   Discover, track and read life-changing books

   2023

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   Hardcover▲141

   Social discovery for serious book lovers

   2022

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   ShelfTaught▲203

   Crowdsourcing wisdom through book recommendations 📚

   2018

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   I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks▲263

   2024 · github.com

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    Bookworm Reads▲83

    Track, recommend, and discuss your books

    2022

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    I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o▲285

    Hey HN! I love finding new books to read on here. I wanted to gather the most mentioned books and recreate the serendipity of physical browsing. I scraped 20k comments from HN threads related to reading, extracted the references and opinions using GPT-4o mini, and visualised their embeddings as a map. - OpenAI's embeddings were processed using UMAP and HDBSCAN. A direct 2D projection from the text embeddings didn't yield visually interesting results. Instead, HDBSCAN is first applied on a high-dimensional projection. Those clusters tend to correspond to different genres. The genre…

    2024 · hnbooks.pieterma.es

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    Bookself▲361

    The social reading app 📚💬

    2019

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    Bookblock▲116

    Design-led custom notebooks & stationery.

    2018

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    Swappy Books▲102

    Exchange books with people nearby.

    2017

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    Shelvy Books▲52

    Hey HN! I built a little side project I wanted to share. Shelvy is a free, visual bookshelf app where you can organize books you're reading, want to read, or have finished. Sign in to save your own collection. Not monetized, no ads, no tracking beyond basic auth. Just a fun weekend project that grew a bit. Live: https://shelvybooks.com Would love any feedback on the UX or feature ideas!

    Jan 2026 · shelvybooks.com

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    Booknshelf▲140

    Keep track of all your books online.

    2016

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    Digital Bookshelf ▲127

    A Notion space to store your content, notes and learnings.

    2022

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    Self-Quarantine Book Club▲127

    Stuck inside? Join a book club on our Slack community.

    2020

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    Afterword▲121

    The simplest personal library for readers

    2021

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    Every great read I've come across, compiled into a knowledge graph▲153

    2022 · prashantbarahi.com.np

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    An open-source e-book reader for conversational reading with an LLM▲86

    Hi HN! I've been working on BookWith, an open-source e-book reader that integrates AI as your reading companion. The problem: Traditional e-readers are passive. When you encounter something unclear, you have to context-switch to search for it. Your highlights and notes remain isolated, and you can't easily connect ideas across different books. My solution: BookWith embeds an AI that maintains full context of what you're reading. It features: - Context-aware AI chat: Ask questions about the current page/chapter and get instant answers - AI podcast generation: Automatically converts book…

    2025 · github.com

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    Citationsy BookScanner▲95

    Scan the barcodes on the backs of books to cite them

    2018

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    BookRatel▲67

    The perfect place to share quickly your reading experience.

    2022

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    Bookshare ▲76

    Your public bookshelf

    2020

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