Alternatives

Products that do what Paperback does

Simpler and tidier alternative to wiki pages

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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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   Digital Bookshelf ▲127

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

   2022

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   TiddlyWiki▲292

   The open source non-linear notebook

   2020

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   Screenbreak▲110

   Turn your "read later" articles into paperbacks

   2020

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   Publitas▲128

   Easily turn your PDFs into beautiful, online publications.

   2014

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   Dropbox Paper for Mac (Unofficial)▲195

   An unofficial Mac app for Dropbox Paper

   2017

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   A HN/Reddit-style site for scientific pre-prints and publications▲275

   2018 · upvote.pub

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   ReadHere▲146

   Lightweight PDF & EPUB reader in your browser

   Jun 2026

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    Shelf▲135

    A better way for teams to manage & share files, links & more

    2017

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    CodeX Docs▲163

    Self-hosted alternative to Notion, Paper and Google Docs

    2022

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    Corpus▲86

    Curate, take notes and share your reading list

    2019

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    Paper Website▲316

    Start a tiny website from your notebook

    2021

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    Docs2Book [discontinued]▲90

    Distribute your Google Document in a whole new way

    2020

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    Hazel 2.0▲122

    A simple and beautiful virtual bookshelf

    2019

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    M-Journal▲79

    Turn any Wikipedia page into a citable academic paper.

    2019

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    Bookshelf for NotebookLM▲105

    Add folders, search, and sync to Google NotebookLM

    Mar 2026

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    Medium TOC▲162

    Easily create a 'Table Of Contents' for your Medium article.

    2018

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    Rocket Reads▲147

    A simpler alternative to Goodreads

    2015

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    Simple Print – Convert web articles into printable PDFs▲122

    2018 · pdf.fivefilters.org

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    Citationsy for Mac▲125

    Create citations, reference lists, & bibliographies on OS X

    2018

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    Bookshelf.so▲206

    Your shareable books page with a 3D interactive bookshelf

    2024

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    Circular Docs▲160

    Create a knowledge base with your Google Drive content

    2021

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    Manuscripts.app▲87

    For academics who have outgrown the spreadsheet tracker

    May 2026

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