Bookship: a virtual book club

The Hawaii Project, LLC

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About this app

Bookship is a social reading app for sharing your reading experiences with friends, family & co-workers. Chat, share thoughts and observations with your book club. Post photos of a favorite passage. Have Bookship extract a quote from a photo of a page you're reading. Create Groups & Calendars to manage your meetings. Open an instant live video chat with your friends! A mobile-first, camera-ready, emoji-friendly experience!

Whether it's reading a great novel with your best friend across the country or a neighborhood book club, or a business book with your co-workers, Bookship is your virtual book club companion. Build better relationships through books, and enrich your reading experience along the way.

Bookship provides unique book discovery and recommendations, with a special emphasis on books that are topical and perfect for book clubs! Get great ideas for your next group reading or book club! Browse by genre, with books being talked about by the leading book tastemakers. Keep a Reading List by using our Saved Books feature, so you can come back to interesting books later and keep track of what you’ve read.

Key features:
* Browse unique book recommendations from leading tastemakers, book reviewers, best-seller and awards lists
* Invite friends, family, co-workers to read a book together
* Post & react to comments, photos, links, video
* Video chat with your group right from Bookship. No more scheduling, invites and waiting rooms. Completely secure, free and private by default - or open it up to anyone?
* Write reviews when you finish your books and share them with the world!
* Get alerts when your friends post; keep in sync by sharing your location in the book
* Tag your comments as spoilers - they're hidden from others until they open them
* Use the Virtual Highlighter to highlight passages (and extract quotes!) from physical books, and share them with friends.
* Keep & manage your To Be Read List (TBR) by saving interesting books you find in the app.
* Use our handy barcode scanner to remember books you find in a bookstore
* Groups - keep your group member lists & Group-specific TBRs inside the app.
* Calendars - schedule your Group meetings & automatically send reminders.
* Read classic works for free right inside the app! Tens of thousands of classic works are available.
* Social Reading lets you highlight and comment right inside the book, and share with your group.
* Share readings on social media and websites to open them to the public!

Read books FOR FREE right inside the app. Browse classic books from Project Gutenberg, Standard eBooks, and other sources. Use our built-in eReader to read the book, sharing notes and comments with your friends RIGHT INSIDE THE book. Look for the "Read Free!" tag on the top left of the cover art for the book to see books you can read for free.

Bookship Premium is a monthly subscription that helps you get the most out of your reading and your reading groups.

* Book Briefings provide curated content about your book - reading guides, author interviews & reviews. Great for getting ready for your book club meeting!
* Bookship Premium enables groups with 10+ members. (Groups with less than 10 members are free.)
* Ad-free experience. Bookship Premium is guaranteed ad-free, and helps us keep Bookship going!

Bookship Premium is $2.99 per month in the U.S. Prices will vary by your location. Get started with a 2-week free trial! We believe Books Change Lives; we donate 10% of our revenue to great literacy nonprofits. Join us in supporting literacy.

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Ratings and reviews

After searching long and hard for a solution for our virtual book club, we're THRILLED with how well this app is working for us. We were hoping for a simple option as an alternative to Zoom and the like. We don't need all the bells and whistles the standard business platforms provide. It's worked better than we could have even imagined.

Best app ever! This app is absolutely amazing for book club readings. Being able to digitally highlight not only allows us to mark our pages without actually ruining our books, but let's us react in real time instead of flipping through pages to find things while actually talking. Plus Mark is amazing at responding and resolving issues in a timely manner when something isn't working quite right. Hands down this app was the best thing we have found for our book club readings.

Good idea but needs work. It's a good idea for an app but there are definitely some features it is missing and some things that need fixing. Comments need better formatting capabilities. It would be nice to be able to @people and reply to them that way. Maybe have some sort of Poll option. So people can vote on things like what book to read next, fav character etc. A better way to get to the book information. Because right now you have to scroll all the way up.

What's new

This release corrects problems with uploading pictures