BBookfell

A home for the books you love

Your books, your friends, your community.

Bookfell is a book catalogue and lending library — for real books — tailored for you, your friends, and your community. Share the books you love with the people you love, build communities around common interests, and, most importantly, never lose track of where your books are.

  • 1Catalogue your library. Every book on your shelf, in one place.
  • 2Lend & borrow with friends. Know who has what, and when it's coming home.
  • 3Join communities of local readers. Shared shelves, common interests.
Join the waitlist Open beta — invitations sent by hand.
The Bookfell salon — recent activity from friends and communities
A reader's Bookfell library, showing their catalogued books
Bleak House — on loanto Henry Whittaker · home Friday
See inside

A quiet, well-kept reading room

A look at how Bookfell works today, shown here with sample data.

Catalogue

Your whole library

Add a book by scanning, searching, or importing a list. See at a glance what's loanable, out, or borrowed.

Lend & borrow

Books that come home

Requests, approvals, and gentle nudges — so a lent book is never a lost one.

Communities

Shelves worth sharing

Gather around a shared interest — a reading society, a neighborhood, a workplace — and open your shelves to each other.

Private betaBookfell is opening slowly, by invitation. These previews reflect the current design and are populated with sample data.

“Hey, you have to read this!” is how a friend says “I love you.”
Open beta

Ask for a seat at the table.

Leave your name and we'll send an invitation when there's room. Bookfell grows one reader at a time — so it stays the kind of place you'd want to be.

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You're on the list.

Thank you — we've noted your interest. When there's room at the table, we'll send a note to your inbox. Nothing else.