BookHive — Reading is better together
The open alternative to Goodreads<br>Reading is better together<br>Track your books, see what your friends are reading, and discover your next favorite.<br>BookHive, an open platform where your data belongs to you.<br>Sign in with BlueskyCreate a free account
Community<br>Reading may be solitary.<br>But, it doesn't have to be.<br>BookHive connects you with readers who share your taste. See what friends are reading right now, follow people with similar interests, and build a community around the books you love.
See who is reading the same book as you, right now
Follow friends and discover what they recommend
A social feed built around books, not engagement bait
Recent Activity
@k.moonlemon.nexus started reading Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions<br>2 minutes ago
@stevemullis.net finished reading The Year of Magical Thinking
about 1 hour ago
@stevemullis.net finished reading The City & the City
about 1 hour ago
@stevemullis.net finished reading London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
about 1 hour ago
@gadverdanne.bsky.social started reading Folklore of the Sea: Myths and legends of the maritime world<br>about 3 hours ago
@klausneumannege.eurosky.social wants to read A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness<br>about 3 hours ago
@klausneumannege.eurosky.social finished reading Das Ende ist nur ein Anfang: Storys
about 3 hours ago
@gadverdanne.bsky.social finished reading The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
about 3 hours ago
@stevemullis.net finished reading Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1
about 3 hours ago
@stevemullis.net finished reading Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile
about 3 hours ago
Your Library<br>Your complete reading life, organised<br>Everything you need to manage your books in one place. From want-to-read to finished, with custom shelves for every mood and genre.
Custom shelves<br>Create shelves for any category — all-time favourites, most informational, guilty pleasures, or anything else.
Track your progress<br>Log your current page, set reading goals, and see your progress at a glance.
Ratings & reviews<br>Rate books out of 5 stars and write reviews to share with the people who follow you.
Public profile<br>Show off your reading life. Share your profile so friends can see what you'd recommend them.
E-Reader Sync<br>Read on your terms, sync everywhere<br>BookHive bridges your e-reader and your reading life. Upload your ebooks, browse them from KOReader, and your reading progress flows back to BookHive automatically.
Upload ebooks and serve them to your e-reader via OPDS
Reading progress syncs back to your BookHive books automatically
Works with KOReader and any OPDS-compatible app
How it works<br>Upload your ebooks<br>EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, and CBZ — up to 100 MB each
Connect your e-reader<br>Add your OPDS catalog URL and KOSync server to KOReader
Read and sync<br>Browse and download books on your device. Progress syncs back to BookHive
Your files stay private. Nothing is published to your PDS.
Discovery<br>The best recommendations come from people you trust<br>Bumble onto books you'll love. No algorithms, just real people sharing what's on their shelves.
See what your network is reading and what they think of it
Browse books by genre and author to find your next read
Discover hidden gems through community buzz<br>Browse genres
Trending this week<br>1Project Hail Mary<br>Andy Weir
14 readers<br>2Dune<br>Frank Herbert
13 readers<br>3Children of Time<br>Adrian Tchaikovsky
13 readers<br>4Babel<br>R.F. Kuang
12 readers<br>5The Three-Body Problem<br>Liu Cixin
12 readers<br>6Ancillary Justice<br>Ann Leckie
12 readers<br>71984<br>George Orwell
11 readers<br>8The Great Gatsby<br>F. Scott Fitzgerald
10 readers<br>9The Fellowship of the Ring<br>J.R.R. Tolkien
10 readers<br>10All Systems Red<br>Martha Wells
10 readers
Data Ownership<br>Your data always belongs to you<br>Every review you write, every book you track, every shelf you create; it's all stored in an open, portable format. Sign in with your existing Bluesky account, or create a new one. If BookHive ever shuts down, your data lives on.
Sign in with Bluesky<br>Use your existing Bluesky account, or create a new one. No new password to remember.
Open format<br>All your book data is stored on the AT Protocol, in an open format, accessible by other apps.
No lock-in<br>Your library and reviews aren't trapped inside BookHive. Take them with you, wherever you go.
Built in the open<br>BookHive is 100% open source, from the code that runs the site to the book dataset it uses & publishes.
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Migration<br>Bring your books with you<br>Already have years of reading history on Goodreads or StoryGraph? Don't start from scratch. Export your data from closed platforms and import it straight into BookHive.<br>Import your library
Supported sources
Goodreads<br>Export your library CSV and import everything
StoryGraph<br>Bring over your reading history and reviews
Your data. Your history. Yours to keep.
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