Bookship: a virtual book club 8.10

Bookship is a social reading app that facilitates sharing reading experiences with friends, family, and colleagues. It allows users to engage in conversations, share reflections, and post photos of favorite passages. Furthermore, Bookship can extract quotes from images of book pages. The app offers features like creating Groups and Calendars to organize meetings. With its mobile-first approach, camera integration, and emoji support, Bookship provides a user-friendly platform.

Bookship serves as a virtual book club companion, enabling individuals to connect over literature whether reading with a long-distance friend, local book club, or coworkers. The platform aims to strengthen relationships through shared reading experiences.

Within the app, users can access classic books from sources like Project Gutenberg and Standard eBooks. They can utilize the built-in eReader to read books while sharing notes and comments directly within the text. Books available for free are indicated by the "Read Free!" label on the cover art.

One of Bookship's standout features is its focus on unique book discovery and recommendations tailored for book clubs. Users can explore genre-specific recommendations endorsed by prominent book influencers. By leveraging features such as Saved Books, readers can curate a personalized Reading List and keep track of their literary journey.

Key features of Bookship include:

• Browsing exclusive book recommendations from renowned critics and award lists
• Inviting contacts to read together
• Engaging in various forms of communication like comments, photos, links, and videos
• Conducting group video chats directly on the platform
• Writing and sharing book reviews
• Receiving alerts when contacts make updates
• Utilizing spoiler tags for sensitive content
• Enhancing physical book reading with the Virtual Highlighter
• Managing To Be Read lists with the barcode scanner feature

In addition to these features, Bookship Premium offers valuable benefits through a monthly subscription:

• Book Briefings providing insightful content about chosen books
• Enabling larger groups (10+ members)
• An ad-free experience to enhance user engagement

Bookship Premium is priced at $2.99 per month in the U.S., with varying prices based on location. Users can start with a 2-week free trial before subscribing. For details on privacy and terms of service, please refer to the provided links.