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— Alex & Macy
A note from us
After years of frustration with other book tracking apps, we, a married couple in the Washington, DC area with a lot of books to our name, decided to make our own.
We started with the way we love to visualize our own books: on a shelf, in dangerously tall stacks, organized only by the loose associations of a deranged mind. In a small city apartment, however, literary retail space comes at a premium, and many books are lost to the e-readers, second-hand stores, and libraries of both the traditional and “little-lending” sorts. These are all beautiful things, but we wanted to find a way to preserve these books on our virtual shelves.
These shelves can be cozy or expansive, meticulously catalogued with annotations or allowed to speak for themselves. Build shelves that capture your taste, a mood, a city you love or a time you wish you could go back to. Pursue reading goals beyond racking up a certain number of books in a year, and find new reads that challenge and excite you.
ShelfLife is also designed as a communal project; we hope that readers will craft shelves of recommendations the way we millennials burned CDs for our unrequited crushes. Our Book Signal feature is designed to match users longing for a very specific mood with a reader who gets it. Need a book that feels like the Hong Kong cinematic masterpiece In the Mood for Love? Are you looking for the wit and romance of Jane Austen in a cyberpunk world? Someone out there knows exactly what book fits the bill.
ShelfLife is out now! Free on iPhone, Android, and the web, so come build a shelf. And please reach out with any questions: info@fisherbirdsoftware.com.
ShelfLife is free to use. We may add an optional supporter tier later for more advanced social sharing features, but the core will always be free: your shelves, your reading life, your people. You'll always be able to download and share your shelves for free.
Yes. Export your library from Goodreads or StoryGraph as a CSV and import it in ShelfLife. Your ratings, reviews, and reading history included.
A married couple named Macy and Alex in the Washington, DC area, with a lot of books to our name. ShelfLife is the first app we've built together under our company Fisherbird Software (Fisherbird LLC). You can email us directly any time with the contact info in the footer.
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