Booke - a reading companion for printed books, annotations, citations, bibliography, referencing in printed books.
Have you ever read a book and couldn’t recall a thing about it after a while? Now the most precious moments of every book will stay with you forever.
Are you a Goodreads reader? Now your printed books are directly connected with the Goodreads site. Take your book in your hands. Do you want to post a quote? A comment? Update your status in the book? Do it automatically with the Booke app printed book’s companion, without leaving the pages of your printed book.
The Booke app is a mobile reading companion that reflects the pages of a real book. With Booke, you can save the quotes, annotate them with any kind of additional content (i.e. notes, pictures, videos, etc), share them on social media, or just keep them private on your mobile device. You can search for words or phrases, just like in an e-book.
How to try the app?
— Browse through the feed of the bookmarks.
— Tap on the bookmark in the feed to see the details.
— Tap on the details of the bookmark to locate it in the book.
— While browsing through the visualization of the books pages tap and hold on gray lines to add your own bookmark.
— Go to the library to add or select the title you are reading now.
Booke is available with every printed book on the market. Read +500 printed books with Booke for free (thoroughly selected by Redwood City Public Library - one of the top-ranked libraries in the U.S.).
If you want to have a Booke companion to a book not included in the list - just subscribe one of the paid plans.
Features:
— 500+ Booke Companions at the very beginning for free
— Search for a Booke Companion for your printed book by title, author, or ISBN
— Search through a book quickly to find a particular fact or excerpt
— Augment excerpts with comments, images, videos, or links (multimedia bookmarks)
— Decide to make your bookmarks public or private (they are private by default)
— Discover and follow other readers and their favorite excerpts
— Keep all your bookmarks and all your likes in one place
— Connect with Goodreads and update your status in the book, post the quotes, comments without leaving the pages of your printed book
— Receive notifications and even weeks after finishing the book the best parts of it will come back to you
— Make your work smarter: each quotation is attributed to its source (author name, title, publisher, year, page numbers)
Tom Hughes, Springwise: "Through app, physical books become more like e-books. Booke combines the best elements of both analog and digital reading…"
Florent Taillandier, CNET: "Booke shows that social reading is not necessarily limited to the ebook, but also can perfectly fit the paper."
Pauline Trassard, Latelier: "Reading printed books with the functionalities of digital publications, is what Booke provides."