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The fabulous, modern e-book manager for StoryGraph lovers

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BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence▲562
2022 · bookstackapp.com
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Hardcover▲309
Discover, track and read life-changing books
2023
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bookclub▲394
A beautiful, simple alternative to Goodreads 📚
2018
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ShelfTaught▲203
Crowdsourcing wisdom through book recommendations 📚
2018
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Hardbound 3.0▲739
Illustrated summaries of bestselling nonfiction books
2017 · apps.apple.com
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Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app▲338
Hey folks! This winter I've been building Citadel to scratch my itch of managing ebooks without using Calibre. Calibre is incredibly powerful, but it's slow and awkward to use. I dreamed of writing a native app (and originally tried this in Swift), but ran into issues building the UI. Plus, whatever I built would only work on macOS. I started writing Citadel using Tauri (Svelte on the frontend + Rust on the backend) to have a cross-platform desktop app. Plus, Citadel supports running in a headless / webbrowser mode. You can self-host a Citadel server that manages your library, and…
2024 · github.com
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Shelf▲135
A better way for teams to manage & share files, links & more
2017
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shelf▲211
Asset management infrastructure for everyone
2023
9IB
I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks▲263
2024 · github.com
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Hardcover▲141
Social discovery for serious book lovers
2022
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Kooba▲141
An interactive graph for finding new books
2017
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1paragraph – a browser-based, offline-first ePub reader▲108
2022 · 1paragraph.app
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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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Bookov▲126
A platform for book lovers who value their collections
2025
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Shelf▲84
A fully customisable, open-source browser startpage
2022
16TM
The missing link of a bookstore's tech stack▲95
Hi HN! I built Bookhead because I used to work as a bookseller and I wasn't happy with the software options when I decided to sell my own collection online (with the hopes of one day growing so I can open my own brick & mortar). So I decided to make my own bookselling app...a classic hacker distraction. Bookhead has two main parts: 1. an inventory management app that allows a bookseller to list their books anywhere they want to sell books (like Squarespace, Biblio, eBay, Shopify (coming soon!), etc) 2. an e-commerce platform with a CMS for selling books and letting a store control their…
2025 · bookhead.net
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@smoores/epub, a JavaScript library for working with EPUB publications▲156
Howdy! I've just written a blog post about this, and I figured I would share it here: https://smoores.dev/post/announcing_smoores_epub/. As I've been working on Storyteller[1], I've been developing a library for working with EPUB files, since that's a large amount of the work that Storyteller does. After a friend asked for advice on creating EPUB books in Node.js, I decided to publish Storyteller's EPUB library as a standalone NPM package. I really love the EPUB spec, and I think the Node.js developer community deserves an actively maintained library for working with…
2024 · npmjs.com
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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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Shelf – A better way to share knowledge across teams and organizations▲59
2017 · shelf.io
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Shelfinder▲104
A floating shelf for drag-and-drop files on macOS
Dec 2025
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Calibre eBook Manager▲102
Convert any eBook to any format (free and open source)
2014
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Hardcover – Letterboxd for Books▲31
Hi HN! A little over two years ago, Goodreads announced they were shutting off access to their API. I was using it to show what I was reading on my blog at the time, and started looking for alternatives. I found a few that showed potential. I'd been using Letterboxd for a few years at that point and felt it had something that was missing from GR and the others I found, but I couldn't put my finger on it. I decided to build it instead (I'm sure many creators can relate ). I made a post on the /r/cofounders subreddit about the idea, and found Ste. With me as a full-stack product dev…
2023 · hardcover.app
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Calibre 2.0▲76
The one stop solution to all your ebook needs
2014
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Asciibook – An eBook Generator for AsciiDoc▲11
Asciibook is an e-book generator tool that can convert AsciiDoc to e-books in HTML/PDF/EPUB/MOBI format. GitBook used to be the best open source e-book generator, but they abandoned the project at the end of 2018. E-book authors either continue to use GitBook without maintenance or write their own scripts. So I came up with the idea to write a new eBook generation tool to replace GitBook. Homepage: https://asciibook.org/ GitHub: https://github.com/asciibook/asciibook Features: - Supports generation of HTML/PDF/EPUB/MOBI. -…
2020

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