Open Library Reader vs Bookaroo

Open Library is an online library with millions of books to browse or check out. You can track the books that you're reading, want to read, etc. and read many of them right there. PLEASE NOTE: This app is an interface to the openlibrary.org web site — if you don't use that site to read books, you may have trouble figuring out what the app is for. I encourage you to familiarize yourself with the site first, and then you'll understand what the app offers. This app is one reader's effort to create the ideal portable experience for taking advantage of Open Library's amazing collection. You'll get the best experience out of this app on an iPad, but you can use it on a smaller screen (if you don't mind squinting). The moment you open the app and log in, any books you've already saved on the Open Library site are laid out on your screen. You can sort them by title, author, publication date, and date saved, see which books are available to read, and open them with a single tap. Once you've opened a book in the familiar reading interface, a tap at the top of the screen will trigger the full screen mode, removing every distraction and expanding the book pages to the limits of your screen for the perfect reading experience. Other features include: - Built-in search: find and add books to your shelves from inside the app. - Shelf management: move books between shelves, remove books, change the edition of a book. - Related title search: choose a book on your shelf and quickly find more books like it. - Checkout tracking: see at a glance how long you have left on limited-access books you've checked out. - Customization: choose which shelves you want to see and manage the size of the books and their titles. This app is essentially an alternative interface to the Open Library site — all of your data is stored there, and the books you read are hosted online, not in the app. As a result, an active internet connection is required when you are using this app. Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The developer of this app has no legal or contractual relationship with Open Library or the Internet Archive, and bears no responsibility for the content found there.

Bookaroo keeps your reading on your phone. No account, no server, no advertising. Everything you record — books, pages, dates, notes, quotes — lives in a file on your device. Not because we promise not to look, but because none of it is ever sent to us. WHAT IT DOES Log the page you stopped on, and Bookaroo works out the rest: how far through you are, your pace, how long the book has left, and how many days in a row you have read. Four shelves, in the order a book moves through them: Unread, Up next, Reading, Finished. A Wishlist for the ones you do not have yet, and a separate note of whose copy it is — so a borrowed book sits on the same shelf as your own without pretending to be the same thing. Lend a book out and Bookaroo remembers who has it and since when. Closed loans are kept, so you can see who had what. Keep the lines. Type a quote or photograph the page and let your phone read it. Tag it, find it again, and share it as something worth looking at. Watch the year add up: pages, books, streaks and best months, with last year beside this one once there is a last year. FOUR WAYS TO ADD A BOOK Scan the barcode. Search by title, author or ISBN. Photograph the cover and let the phone read the title off it — for the books no catalogue has. Or type it in yourself when all three come up empty. YOUR COPY, YOUR CLOUD Automatic backup to your own Dropbox, in an app folder Bookaroo cannot see past. The file is yours, in your account. We hold no tokens and run no server, so your library never passes through us. Or export it as a plain JSON file you can open and read. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account. No ads. No analytics or tracking SDKs. No social feed. No profile of you, because there is no way for us to know who you are.