Your reading life, in a notebook of your own.

Pocket Bookshelf is a private reading log: what you read, what you thought of it, the lines worth keeping and what to read next. Type a title, author or ISBN, and the details and cover come from Open Library and Google Books. No social network, no feed, just your shelf.

Get it on GitHub How to run it

Included in Pocket Box
Sign in with Pocket Core
Works with Open Library and Google Books and KOReader and Kindle

Pocket Bookshelf on an iPhone: a yearly goal of 4 out of 5 books, and two books in progress with their page

Reading now

Where you are, at a glance.

The home page shows your yearly goal and pace, the books you are reading with the page you are on, what is up next and what you finished recently. Type a new page number and the progress bar moves.

The Reading now page: yearly goal, two books in progress, an up-next queue and recently finished books with star ratings

Your verdict

Say what you thought.

Every book has a half-star rating, your thoughts in your own words, tags, a favourite heart and the quotes you saved from it. Novels can also list their characters with short, spoiler-free notes.

Half-star ratings from ½ to 5, and templates for your thoughts
A Finished dialog asks for the date, rating and a few words in one go
Every read is kept with its dates, and re-reads count again

Quotes

Keep the good lines.

Save a quote with its page and a note, or import every Kindle highlight at once. Search them, mark favourites, and let a random one come back to you.

Kindle highlights from My Clippings.txt, matched to your books
Re-imports only add what is new
Hide a quote from the daily pick without deleting it

Quotes on an iPhone: a random line from Piranesi on top, then saved quotes beside their book covers

Library

Every book on one shelf.

Your library as a cover grid or a list, with status, rating, format and favourites on each book. Filter by status or tag, sort it, and search titles, authors, tags and your own thoughts.

Want to read, reading, read and abandoned
Paper, e-book and audiobook, with covers stored next to your data
Import your Goodreads or StoryGraph export

The library as a cover grid with Want, Reading and Abandoned labels, favourites and star ratings

And the rest of it

A plan for what is next
Want-to-read books form a queue you can reorder, pencil in for a month and start with one tap. Note why you want to read it or who recommended it.
Author pages, filled in
Each author gets a short biography and photo from Open Library, how many of their books you read, your average rating and the rest of their bibliography.
Stats for every year
Books and pages per month, average rating, how your ratings spread, top authors and tags, formats and the longest book you finished.
Progress from your e-reader
Bookshelf is a KOReader sync server, so KOReader and CrossPoint readers can send your place here. A REST API with personal tokens covers widgets and iOS Shortcuts.

Install

One container, one volume.

Pocket Bookshelf is a single binary with the web app built in and one SQLite file, run as one container with a data volume on port 8080. Add -e DEMO_DATA=true -e AUTH_MODE=none to look around a sample shelf first.

On a Pocket Box it is already installed, and you sign in with Pocket Core.

Every setting in the README →

docker run -d --name pocket-bookshelf -p 8080:8080 \
  -v ./data:/data -e TZ=Europe/Berlin \
  ghcr.io/abjelosevic88/pocket-homelab-bookshelf:latest
# open http://localhost:8080 and create your account

Your reading life, in a notebook of your own.

Where you are, at a glance.

Say what you thought.

Keep the good lines.

Every book on one shelf.

And the rest of it

A plan for what is next

Author pages, filled in

Stats for every year

Progress from your e-reader

One container, one volume.

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