Bookship: a virtual book club

Bookship: a virtual book club

By The Hawaii Project, LLC

  • Category: Book
  • Release Date: 2017-07-17
  • Current Version: 10.7
  • Adult Rating: 12+
  • File Size: 103.64 MB
  • Developer: The Hawaii Project, LLC
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
Score: 4.17241
4.17241
From 29 Ratings

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? * Groups - keep your group member lists & Group-specific TBRs inside the app. * Polls - run a vote to see which books your group should read. * Calendars - schedule your Group meetings & automatically send reminders. * 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 * 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

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Reviews

  • Staying connected with friends

    5
    By Andkimme
    I’ve ran a number of book clubs using the app to keep in touch with friends far and wide!
  • Love it

    5
    By This Is Amanda, yay!
    We’ve been using this app for our book club for a few years now and we love it! It works well across all platforms, gives alerts, lets us chat without having to exchange numbers, etc. There has only been one or two times that it hasn’t had the book we were reading but it wasn’t surprising since they were pretty obscure titles. Just get it! You won’t regret it!
  • Perfect for book clubs

    5
    By IrmaCMD
    Our friends have scattered far and wide but we still like to have Bookclub once a month. Bookship makes that so very easy. A great app that can be used on a desktop, iPad or mobile phone. It has so many aspects to it and has become a great part of our club. Highly recommend.
  • So easy to use!

    5
    By Crystie_77
    We love this app for book club! It lets us see what our thoughts are chapter by chapter with helpful things like spoilers so those who read slower don’t have to worry about spoilers! Love this app!
  • I love this app!

    5
    By Gracie98
    This app is so great for all book readers!
  • Does Not Work

    1
    By RedCornPoppies
    This app does not function at all. I can download, create an account, and that’s all. After that, nothing works.
  • Doesn’t Work Anymore

    3
    By samantha frazzini
    This app was AMAZING but after one book, neither my friend or myself can link to any shared bookclubs together
  • A Wonderful Book Club App

    5
    By VeraJ
    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.
  • Can't import your own epubs

    2
    By Itinerati
    The concept is great, but the app is of no use to me unless I can import my own epubs and then share them with friends. Provide this functionality and I'll return with a much better review.
  • Perfect for Reading with Friends or a Book Group

    5
    By ThomasWales91
    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.

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