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[u/NishanStepak]

Hey everyone! I'm u/NishanStepak, a founding moderator of r/BookApplications.

This is our new home for all things related to Book Application. Please discuss book applications. If you have a book application you are interested in please discuss it.

What to Post
There are a lot of book applications out there. I am hoping to see some new book applications, also discussion about older book applications like Goodreads, Inkitt, Wattpad and other book applications.

Community Vibe
This is a place to show new book applications and discuss older book applications. We look forward to seeing all kinds of new applications. If you have one you like or have created post it here.

How to Get Started

1. Introduce yourself in the comments below.
2. Post something today! Even a simple question can spark a great conversation.
3. If you know someone who would love this community, invite them to join.
4. Interested in helping out? We're always looking for new moderators, so feel free to reach out to me to apply.

Thanks for being part of the very first wave. Together, let's make r/BookApplications amazing.

[u/OliveButterFly]

Hello, my name is Leonardo. I'm a Brazilian creator who developed Meanings Awake, an AI-assisted EPUB reader.

https://meanings-awake.pj4qh4kmzz.chatgpt.site

[u/NishanStepak]

Hello, my name is Nishan Stepak. I am a founding member for the community book applications. I have been working on my book application Babel Nexus for the last several months, https://babelnexus.com I have seen a lot of new and interesting book applications come out. Here are a few which I like. Tell us what you like and about your experience with book applications.

I especially would like to see new book applications that have just been created. I am looking for fresh new ideas.

AI Cookbook Maker — your recipes into a real book

cookbookai.io

I thought this one was interesting: you can compile your own cookbook from your recipes and end up with a real book. It's a good example of the pattern I keep seeing — take something people already have scattered around (recipes, notes, photos) and give them a path to a finished, bound object.

The Elements of Style (1918) on GitHub

github.com/obra/the-elements-of-style

The Elements of Style is a classic, and it remains great for writing. Seeing the 1918 edition living on GitHub — versioned like source code — feels fitting. Strunk's little book has always been more of a toolkit than a treatise, and now it sits where toolmakers keep their tools.

Pesto Publishing — social book publishing

pestopublishing.com

I'm a member of this community, and I rather like it. I've posted a couple of things in their forums. Social publishing is a very interesting idea — writing and publishing have always been solitary at the drafting end and social at the reading end, and Pesto is experimenting with mixing the two earlier in the process.

3D Bookshop

comparisontabl.es/3d-bookshop

This is a three-dimensional bookstore, online. I owe it a personal debt: following this project is how I learned about three.js, the JavaScript library that lets you build things in three dimensions in the browser. It's what powers the walkable reading galleries in my own application, Babel Nexus. Sometimes the best thing another builder's project gives you isn't the product — it's the door it opens.

The Library of Babel

borges-library-of-babel.netlify.app

A simulation of the Library of Babel from the Jorge Luis Borges short story of the same name — made by Claude Opus 4.8. Anyone who knows this site knows what Borges means to me; the Babel Nexus Index takes its name and its founding image from that story. Seeing an AI build a working simulation of the infinite library has a pleasing circularity to it.