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. A mobile-first, camera-ready, emoji-friendly experience!
Text Chat
Chat with your friends
Bookship lets you chat with your friends about the books you are reading. Posts can be simple text (including Emoji 😉!!), formatted rich text, photos, links, whatever you want to share, and your friends get notified when you post.
The Virtual Highlighter lets you extract quotes from a physical book just by using your camera. Spoiler tags hide your comment until people click it, so you don't spoil it for everyone else.
Instant Virtual Meetings
Bookship has secure, free, unlimited, one-button instant Video Chat! No more Zoom scheduling, fooling with installing software, sending out invites, explaining to people how to join. Just go to your Reading, tap the video icon (
Meet bestselling authors!
There are few things readers love more than the chance to engage with the author of a book they love. Our Meet the Author program allows readers to meet live (via our app, Zoom, or other video conferencing) with amazing authors, including NY Times and USA Today Bestselling authors and National Book Award finalists. We have personally connected with and vetted over 100 authors, and are adding more each day. These authors have agreed to make themselves available to reading groups for free as part of our program. And with in-person events on hiatus, authors are looking for new ways to connect with readers. So what are you waiting for? Browse the books and Authors who will meet with your reading group, start a reading, and we’ll hook you up.
Meet New People
The Café is Bookship's public discussion area, where members can meet other people using the app from around the world. Post a Public Reading and find a reading buddy from somewhere around the world who wants to read the very same book! Or just post a comment about a book you are reading and continue the conversation while meeting new people.
"Go Live" in the Café and have an open video chat anyone can join!
Great Book Recommendations
We track what the web's leading tastemakers and book reviewers are writing about, uncovering books you'd never find on your own. Browse our unique channels and get recommendations that match your interests. We track over 1000 book sites to see what's going on in the world of books. And because we're always watching, your recommendations are fresh and reflect what's going on.
Learn more about your book
Bookship Premium ($2.99 a month) provides hand-curated background content from trusted sources about the book you are reading. From Reading Guides to Author Interviews to Reviews from trusted sources, Bookship Premium is your reading companion, helping you get more out of the book you are reading.
Bookship Premium also gets you Personalized Book Recommendations, and meetings with 10 or more people.
We believe Books Change Lives, so we donate 10% of our revenue to great literacy non-profits like Nabu.org, Hawaii Literacy, and others.
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