Bookship: a virtual book club 4+
Reading with groups or friends
The Hawaii Project, LLC
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Bookship is a social reading app for sharing your reading experiences with friends, family & co-workers. Chat, share thoughts and observations with your book club. Post photos of a favorite passage. Have Bookship extract a quote from a photo of a page you're reading. Create Groups & Calendars to manage your meetings. A mobile-first, camera-ready, emoji-friendly experience!
Whether it's reading a great novel with your best friend across the country or a neighborhood book club, or a business book with your co-workers, Bookship is your virtual book club companion. Build better relationships through books, and enrich your reading experience along the way.
Read classic books right inside the app. Browse classic books from Project Gutenberg, Standard eBooks, and other sources. Use our built-in eReader to read the book, sharing notes and comments with your friends RIGHT INSIDE THE book. Look for the "Read Free!" tag on the top left of the cover art for the book to see books you can read for free.
Bookship provides unique book discovery and recommendations, with a special emphasis on books that are topical and perfect for book clubs! Get great ideas for your next group reading or book club! Browse by genre, with books being talked about by the leading book tastemakers. Keep a Reading List by using our Saved Books feature, so you can come back to interesting books later and keep track of what you’ve read.
Key features:
* Browse unique book recommendations from leading tastemakers, book reviewers, best-seller and awards lists
* Invite friends, family, co-workers to read a book together
* Post & react to comments, photos, links, video
* Video chat with your group right from Bookship. No more scheduling, invites and waiting rooms. Completely secure, free and private by default - or open it up to anyone?
* Write reviews when you finish your books and share them with the world!
* Get alerts when your friends post; keep in sync by sharing your location in the book
* Tag your comments as spoilers - they're hidden from others until they open them
* Use the Virtual Highlighter to highlight passages (and extract quotes!) from physical books, and share them with friends.
* Keep & manage your To Be Read List (TBR) by saving interesting books you find in the app.
* Use our handy barcode scanner to remember books you find in a bookstore
* Groups - keep your group member lists & Group-specific TBRs inside the app.
* Calendars - schedule your Group meetings & automatically send reminders.
* Read classic works for free right inside the app! Tens of thousands of classic works are available.
* Social Reading lets you highlight and comment right inside the book, and share with your group.
* Share readings on social media and websites to open them to the public!
Bookship Premium is a monthly subscription that helps you get the most out of your reading and your reading groups.
* Book Briefings provide curated content about your book - reading guides, author interviews & reviews. Great for getting ready for your book club meeting!
* Bookship Premium enables groups with 10+ members. (Groups with less than 10 members are free.)
* Ad-free experience. Bookship Premium is guaranteed ad-free, and helps us keep Bookship going!
Bookship Premium is $2.99 per month in the U.S. Prices will vary by your location. Get started with a 2-week free trial!
Privacy Policy: https://www.bookshipapp.com/privacy
Terms of Service: https://www.bookshipapp.com/terms
What’s New
Version 8.10
This version includes minor defect corrections and other improvements
Ratings and Reviews
A Wonderful Book Club App
Was looking for an app to have a “book club” with a few long distance friends. I tried a few different ones, but most were set up for in-person meetings, and I just wanted to discuss books long distance and have our chats separated by book. This app has been the perfect thing. It started out as a good structured way to recommend and talk about books with a few pals, but over the past year of using it it’s had tons of improvements and now offers supplemental readings about the books, has a nicer format, lets you invite people to read in different ways, and is really nice aesthetically.
It is simple and easy to use, and fulfills the exact purpose I needed it for... sharing books I love with friends, and getting to hear what they think.
Perfect for Reading with Friends or a Book Group
BookShip is a natural way to share reading of any text. All the tools are there to communicate: photos, hyperlinks, excerpts and, of course, text. I’ve used it to read with large groups, small groups, long and difficult texts and shorter recreational reads. It makes group readings more fun and insightful.
Read with friends
Fun way to read a book with your friends
App Privacy
The developer, The Hawaii Project, LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Browsing History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Other Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- The Hawaii Project, LLC
- Size
- 90.1 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2021 The Hawaii Project, LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Bookship Premium $2.99