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book discovery and reading tools

Recent window: last 5.2 months (2026-04-27 → 2026-10-03), compared with the prior 5.2 months.

media · 213 members · Data as of 2026-10-06

These products offer book recommendation engines, enhanced reading interfaces, and digital resources for exploring literature and long-form texts. They serve avid readers, researchers, and learners looking to discover, organize, and consume written knowledge more effectively. This cluster is distinguished by its focus on reading comprehension, book cataloging, and literary discovery rather than writing or content creation.

Metrics

Stage
crowded
Recent count
157
Prior count
35
Total count
213
Momentum
300.00
Attention
0.33
Crowding
0.77
Concentration
0.80
Opportunity
0.44

Opportunity components

Attention
0.33
Low crowding
0.23
Momentum (normalized)
1.00
Low concentration
0.20

Source split

github
11 (0.07)
hn
36 (0.23)
ph
109 (0.69)
yc
1 (0.01)

Dominant source: ph · Divergence: 0.69

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Monthly trajectory

Members

Name Source Upvotes ▼ Launched
easyread GITHUB 761 2026-09-30
I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model HN 606 2025-11-05
I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books HN 524 2026-01-10
Now I Get It HN 305 2026-02-28
I wrote a technical history book on Lisp HN 252 2026-02-17
Data Engineering Book HN 251 2026-02-13
How LLMs Work HN 245 2026-04-24
I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire HN 210 2026-06-10
Justif HN 198 2026-07-17
Opening lines of famous literary works HN 183 2026-07-14
Bible as RAG Database HN 166 2026-06-25
Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more HN 140 2026-01-10
See what readers who loved your favorite book/author also loved to read HN 134 2025-12-29
DRM-Free Books HN 118 2026-06-28
Printable Classics HN 85 2026-02-09
tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction HN 74 2026-07-28
Bible translated using LLMs from source Greek and Hebrew HN 55 2026-01-22
Shelvy Books HN 52 2026-01-29
Ex Situ HN 51 2026-07-21
calibre-lib GITHUB 45 2026-09-09
vnpresence GITHUB 41 2026-09-18
Solving the ~95% legislative coverage gap using LLM's HN 41 2025-12-16
Pano, a bookmarking tool built around shareable shelves HN 37 2026-03-15
I built "AI Wattpad" to eval LLMs on fiction HN 32 2026-02-03
HN Companion HN 31 2026-02-10
Oren PH 28 2026-09-15
I indexed 8,643 BSides talks across 227 chapters and 6 continents HN 25 2026-05-04
What 180k words look like as a temporal knowledge graph (Oz series) HN 22 2026-07-26
bookstack-themed GITHUB 21 2026-10-02
Turning 100-plus comments HN threads into readable discussions HN 20 2026-01-02
sakura-read GITHUB 20 2026-09-25
The Occult Gatsby HN 19 2026-07-26
Readme.md GITHUB 17 2026-09-26
Zenòdot HN 15 2026-03-09
Coffeetable, A new UX to discover books inside Claude HN 15 2026-08-25
gguf-head GITHUB 14 2026-09-16
I discovered roads in the US across > 1000 themes HN 13 2026-09-25
Wikigraph HN 12 2026-06-02
Lendy HN 12 2026-01-28
A bookshelf of rare company documents and out-of-print tech books HN 11 2026-09-27
BBReader GITHUB 11 2026-09-28
Click - Research services inside Codex & Claude YC 10 2026-08-12
Rhubarb HN 10 2025-11-29
Help SourceLibrary.org Translate the Renaissance HN 9 2026-06-07
Hister HN 9 2026-02-05
I'm 35 and couldn't finish reading articles anymore, so I built this HN 9 2026-01-06
Semsearch HN 8 2026-08-03
Bookstoread.ai HN 8 2026-05-07
Cover Culture PH 8 2026-09-25
eBook to audiobook narration with realistic AI voices HN 8 2026-06-24