The Last Book Shelf vs Casebound

How many books do you have left to read before you die? Enter your age and your reading pace, and the Librarian does the arithmetic. Most people are startled by the answer. That number is the whole idea: a life is only so many books long, so the ones you choose had better be worth it. From there, the app helps you spend it well. A CANON WORTH THE TIME More than a thousand books, each one chosen by a PhD in literature and argued for in plain language. Every book also gets an honest case against it, because your time is finite and not every great book is for you. No feed of whatever everyone else clicked. A real reader's judgment, written down. A TASTE THAT'S YOURS Take the quiz and the Librarian reads your answers like tarot, then searches the stacks for the books that belong in your hands. Name five that already blew your mind and she finds their lost kin. Crown your Top 20 and the shelf answers with ten more you haven't met yet, each with a line on why it belongs. A PLACE TO ACTUALLY READ Light the candle, set the hour, and sit with one book and nothing else. The app keeps the world out for as long as you asked. It even tallies the hours the distractions were quietly stealing, and hands them back one book at a time. YOUR SHELF, YOUR SIGN Your Top 20 becomes a Reader Passport: a crest drawn from the shape of your shelf, a constellation you can arrange, the span of centuries and languages you read across. Yours, and shareable. QUIETER ROOMS Write a letter to another reader about a single book, one a week, no feed and no likes. Read a book in step with a friend. Find the strangers whose shelves overlap with yours. Press the books you love into someone's hands. Read like it matters. It does. Last Book Shelf is free to browse. A Pro subscription opens the full canon, the focus timer, and the social rooms. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

For serious readers and library builders. People with real shelves who want to know exactly what they own, track their reading honestly, and enjoy the collection they have built. LIBRARY AND LISTS, FINALLY SEPARATE Most book apps blend your shelves, your reading state, and your custom lists into one jumble. When you own 500 books across overlapping shelves, you cannot cleanly answer "what do I actually own?" Casebound keeps your library, a real catalogue with ownership, format, and reading status, separate from your lists, which are tags you layer on top. A book lives in your library once. Lists are zero or many tags applied to it. ONE BOOK, EVERY FORMAT Own the hardcover. Listening to the audiobook. Halfway through the Kindle. That is one library entry with three format records, each tracked separately. Ownership lives on the format, so you can own the hardcover and borrow the audiobook from the library. Stats stay honest: hours for audio, pages for physical, locations or percent for ebooks. No lossy conversion between them. Books finished counts any format. A SHELF WORTH SHOWING Your library is not just a spreadsheet. Arrange it on a real bookshelf, in a floating or framed case, with spine widths that scale to actual page counts. Stack books the way you do at home. Photograph your real spines and see them on the shelf. Earn decor as you read and place it where you like. SESSIONS THAT COUNT Track reading time and pages session by session. Pause, resume, or log a session you forgot to start. See weekly, monthly, yearly, and lifetime stats, plus a reading calendar built from your book covers and a year in review when the year closes. Goals are measured in pages and time, never in book counts. CAPTURE A LIBRARY FAST Scan a barcode and Casebound looks up the metadata automatically. Point the camera at a cover when there is no barcode. Pair a Bluetooth scanner and add a whole shelf in one sitting. Quick add drops a book in with a single tap. Found a wrong page count? Fix it once and the correction improves the shared record for everyone. READ WITH OTHER PEOPLE, OR DO NOT Follow readers whose taste you trust and see what they are finishing. Rate and review books, and read reviews from everyone else. Start or join a book club with real discussion threads. Lend a book and track who has it and how far along they are. Send a book straight to a friend when you know it is for them. None of it is mandatory. Privacy is per book, there is no public profile by default, and you decide what, if anything, is visible. FREE IS USEFUL. PRO IS POWER. Free includes your unlimited library on every device you sign in on, session tracking, streaks and goals, ISBN and cover scanning, reviews, following, lending, friend recommendations, import and export, per-book privacy, and up to 5 custom lists. Pro ($4.99/month or $29.99/year) unlocks unlimited custom lists, advanced stats and insights, unlimited book clubs, the customizable bookshelf, and the Sepia theme. OPINIONATED Casebound measures reading in pages and hours, not in books finished, because book-count goals quietly push people toward shorter books. Your library and your lists stay separate structures, because collapsing them is what broke every app that came before. If those choices are not for you, this is not the right app, and that is okay. Casebound is a product of Pixel Master Technologies LLC. Contact: support@pixel-master.com Casebound Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase and renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://casebound.co/privacy