Book.Love vs Underscore

Book Love: Your New Culture Platform Turkey’s new culture and social media platform Book Love has officially launched with the aim of bringing readers together under one roof. Consisting solely of readers, the platform seeks to create a safe, inclusive, and high-quality social space built around books. On Book Love, users can join a book club or create their own. Even without joining a club, it’s possible to post, interact with other readers, and chat. With its structure centered on the love of books, the platform sets itself apart from traditional social media experiences. Bookie: The Readers’ Feed Bookie, the sharing area of Book Love, offers a feed where members can share their thoughts, book reviews, and photos. In short, it can be described as social media for readers. Its most important difference is clear: there is no room for harassment, bullying, racism, homophobia, or misogyny on Book Love. The platform promises a respectful and safe digital environment. One Address for Book Clubs Hundreds of book clubs operating in different cities across Turkey come together on Book Love. The platform provides dedicated chat panels, video conference infrastructure, and event pages for clubs, allowing communities to grow without needing other applications. This creates a more sustainable community experience for both club organizers and readers. Library: All Books Published in Turkey One of Book Love’s most remarkable sections is the Library, which offers a comprehensive database of all books published in Turkey. Users can easily access book descriptions, author and translator information, and ISBN numbers. They can also add books they have read to their digital libraries, rate them, and write reviews. The system aims to deliver an experience that is as simple as Letterboxd and as comprehensive as Goodreads. One Goal, A Shared Language Book Love’s goal is to create a new social media platform that brings together hundreds of thousands of people from the world of culture and arts, strengthens reading habits, and increases the number of readers. The platform treats reading not as a performance, but as a shared experience. Launched with the call “Readers of the world, unite!”, Book Love invites all readers into this new cultural space.

One line. Sometimes that's enough. Underscore brings you a single line from the classics each day. No feed, no infinite scroll, no catching up. You open it, you read a line, you close it. HOW IT WORKS A new line waits every morning: Goethe, Woolf, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Wilde, Poe, Austen, Dickens, Hugo, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Cervantes, Nietzsche, Rilke — 28 authors in all. When a line reaches you, you underline it. You drag your finger across the words, a red pencil stroke follows, and the line moves into your Notebook. That's the whole interaction — the thing you already do with a pencil, turned into a gesture. A LIVING ARCHIVE The Anthology holds 404 lines and opens as you read: every daily line you have seen stays readable there for good. Your archive grows by one line a day. YOUR OWN LINES You can add a sentence from the book in your hands. Photograph the page, the app reads the text on your device, you fix it and save it to your Notebook. The photo never leaves your phone. YOUR LITERARY PROFILE What you underline becomes a reading character: a figure from the classics, drawn from the themes of your lines, changing as you read. It exports as a shareable card. SHARE CARDS Any line can become a 1080x1920 card — ten backgrounds, all free. The widget puts today's line on your Home Screen or Lock Screen. One quiet notification a day. One. Not a feed. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Underscore opens in your device language: Turkish, English, German, French, Spanish. When a work was written in your language you read the original, not a translation — Hugo in French, Goethe in German, Cervantes in Spanish. The rest are Underscore's own translations, and every line credits its author and work. NO ACCOUNT There is nothing to sign up for. Your notebook, your lines and your streak stay on your device. No ads, no tracking. FREE Everything is free: today's line, the complete Anthology with search, an unlimited Notebook, every card design and the widget. No subscription, no in-app purchases. ABOUT THE QUOTES Every line comes from a work first published in 1929 or earlier, in the public domain in the United States and the European Union. Translations into other languages are Underscore's own. The author and work are named on every line and every card. Privacy Policy: https://underscore.day/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Additional terms: https://underscore.day/terms/ Support: https://underscore.day/support/