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   GPT-5 Codex▲358

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   Personalized book recommendations with Librarian AI▲150

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   Codex by OpenAI▲346

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   Hardcover▲309

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   ShelfTaught▲203

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   Stack – Save and explore books and book lists▲156

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   Laconic▲168

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   Citationsy BookScanner▲95

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    TLDR: Librario is a book metadata API that aggregates data from Google Books, ISBNDB, and Hardcover into a single response, solving the problem of no single source having complete book information. It's currently pre-alpha, AGPL-licensed, and available to try now[0]. My wife and I have a personal library with around 1,800 books. I started working on a library management tool for us, but I quickly realized I needed a source of data for book information, and none of the solutions available provided all the data I needed. One might provide the series, the other might provide genres, and another…

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    Elephant Folio▲69

    The PDF Library that automatically organizes itself

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    AI Bookstore▲94

    Find the book you want to read with the help of AI

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    Digital Library▲94

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    2023

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    Scan Thing▲121

    Quickest way to capture and save anything around you

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    pipeRead▲102

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    Book Radar▲4

    Surface profitable book opportunities automatically

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    Shine Ultra▲87

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    Book Track▲96

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20. 20IB
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    Jan 2026 · shelvybooks.com

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    Shelfy▲18

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