We hope you are staying safe and well during this challenging time.
Books educate us, they inspire and comfort us, they entertain us, they bind us together. Which is why I created Bookship: Book relationships. There’s never been a better time to be reading, by yourself or with your friends and family.
With Bookship or not, we hope part of your routine is reading. Your library may be a great resource now, depending on where you live. We love the Libby app (not all countries, unfortunately), with access to a wealth of free eBooks.
This month’s tip: Too many Bookship emails? Go to Accounts, under Settings you can turn off email notifications, or app notifications, or both (but then you won’t know when people post!).
A quick update on Bookship: we’re exploring public social features for Bookship – like Instagram or Twitter, but for books. If you want to chime in, we have a survey going, it will take you about 2 minutes to finish:
https://mark579.typeform.com/to/xlUBbF
Bookship has always been completely free, but that’s not sustainable for the long term.
The basic product will remain free, but we’re working on a (low cost) monthly subscription product, Bookship Premium, to help us keep Bookship alive. It doesn’t feel like a great time to be asking for money, so the Premium version will be free for you, our existing customers, at least for some period of time. It will provide:
* Access to a much-improved Bookship Briefings feature (the paper clip) for any book you’re reading.
* Readings and Groups with 10 or more people.
* Guaranteed ad-free experience.
Before it launches, we’ll provide more details.
OK, on to the books! The most popular books on Bookship in the last 30 days are:
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I can’t resist sharing some of my personal quarantine reading, they’re all great.
The Odyssey: Emily Wilson’s new translation reads like glass. The greatest adventure story ever told.
The Good Shepherd: a gripping novel of WWII U-boat warfare, soon to be a Tom Hanks movie.
The Last Good Kiss, a darkly comic noir private eye roadtrip. Raymond Chandler meets Hunter S. Thompson.
Thanks for reading and staying in touch. If you have any trouble with Bookship, please drop me a note! And Happy Reading!
Oh. Bookship social might look something like this….
