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Bookkeeper

A cozy home for your books.

Bookkeeper — A cozy home for your books.
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What it does

Bookkeeper is a cozy book managing app that works fully locally. Manage your shelf and local e-books, track lending and borrowing, and keep a log of reading sessions. A web app that supports all mobile platforms.

  • Fully local book management
  • Local e-book library support
  • Lending & borrowing tracker
  • Reading session log

Privacy note: designed to keep your data on your device where possible. No unnecessary accounts or tracking.

Behind the piece

Bookkeeper, in three sittings.

Why it exists

Bookkeeper began with a shelf that kept leaking — books lent to friends and half-forgotten, e-books scattered across devices, reading evenings with no place to land. It wanted to be the quiet ledger for all of that: one shelf that remembers, so you don't have to.

What it listens to

It listens to libraries after closing time: the hush, the due-date stamps, the pencilled margins. Less a database, more a reading room that keeps your seat warm between visits.

How it is composed

Held warm and unhurried — soft spacing, paper tones, nothing blinking for attention. Lending, borrowing, and reading sessions sit side by side like chapters, because a book's life is never just the pages.