No Book Ends

Every book deserves another reader.

NBE (NoBookEnds) is a book-sharing app that helps people discover, request, and share books with readers nearby.

Coming to the App Store and Google Play. New, and starting in London.

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A book page in NBE showing its journey between readers

How it works

Three steps, then you're sharing.

Create a profile

Set up your account and you're ready to start sharing.

Scan a book or snap your bookshelf

Scan one barcode or photograph your whole shelf, and everything uploads in one sweep.

A scanned book's page in NBE, with availability and impact

Search nearby, request exchanges, message

Find what's on shelves around you, ask for it, and arrange the handover in the app.

The NBE home screen showing books near you that match your wishlist

Inside the app

Shelves, maps, exchanges.

Map search with a distance radius around SW17 — Search by postcode and distance.

A list of giving and receiving exchanges — Everything you're giving and receiving, in one list.

A book page showing the journey and environmental impact — Each book carries its journey with it.

A note from Steph

The Story Behind NBE (NoBookEnds)

What if the next book you want to read could be sitting on a shelf near you?

The book probably isn't far away. It's just invisible.

Once you give a book away, normally, that's it. You might know the first person you've given it to. But after that, you have no idea who might read it next. No idea where it might go. And no way of following its journey.

When you gift a book through NBE (NoBookEnds), you don't disappear from it. You become part of its story.

Read Steph's note →

Membership

Love what we're building?

NBE is free for every reader. If you believe a good book should have a life beyond your bookshelf, become a member and help us build it. No set price: monthly, yearly or once. Cancel any time.

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