Book Shelved: Self-Hosted Audio & eBook
Personal Library for Audiobooks & EPUBs
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Book Shelved is a beautifully designed, privacy-first personal library app for audiobooks and EPUBs. Connect to your self-hosted server (like Audiobookshelf) to seamlessly sync progress across devices. Features include a built-in audiobook player with position tracking, a customizable EPUB reader, offline downloads, and a modern Mat
PH · launched Sep 30, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: ebook and reading apps · 190 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Android
- iOS
- eBook Reader
- Books
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More like this: all 190 launches in ebook and reading apps →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a frontend media reader/player client consuming existing self-hosted open-source APIs (like Audiobookshelf) with standard web audio, local storage, and EPUB rendering libraries (epub.js).
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 174 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #150 of 175 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 275 days after the earliest competitor.
- me-bookshelf · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Shelvy Books · hn · 2026-01-29 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- I built an iOS app that turns EPUBs into audiobooks · hn · 2026-02-24 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- dewarr · github · 2026-09-21 · 71 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- HushBook · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Bookora · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Athena Reader · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Maryanne: read or listen to ebook & PDF · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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