Bookship: a virtual book club is a books & reference app developed by The Hawaii Project, LLC.
Download Statistics
Bookship: a virtual book club has been downloaded 17 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 130 times.
User Ratings
Bookship: a virtual book club is rated 4.07 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 83 ratings.
App Information
Bookship: a virtual book club is FREE to download. The APK download size is 56.13 MB. The latest version available is 10.8.0. The last update was on May 11, 2026.
Technical Requirements
Bookship: a virtual book club requires Android 4.1+ or higher. The app has a content rating of High Maturity. The app has been available on Google Play October 2017.
Description
Bookship is a social reading app for sharing your reading experiences with friends, family & co-workers. Chat, share thoughts and observations with your book club. Post photos of a favorite passage. Have Bookship extract a quote from a photo of a page you're reading. Create Groups & Calendars to manage your meetings. Open an instant live video chat with your friends! A mobile-first, camera-ready, emoji-friendly experience!
Whether it's reading a great novel with your best friend across the country or a neighborhood book club, or a business book with your co-workers, Bookship is your virtual book club companion. Build better relationships through books, and enrich your reading experience along the way.
Bookship provides unique book discovery and recommendations, with a special emphasis on books that are topical and perfect for book clubs! Get great ideas for your next group reading or book club! Browse by genre, with books being talked about by the leading book tastemakers. Keep a Reading List by using our Saved Books feature, so you can come back to interesting books later and keep track of what you’ve read.
Key features: * Browse unique book recommendations from leading tastemakers, book reviewers, best-seller and awards lists * Invite friends, family, co-workers to read a book together * Post & react to comments, photos, links, video * Video chat with your group right from Bookship. No more scheduling, invites and waiting rooms. Completely secure, free and private by default - or open it up to anyone? * Groups - keep your group member lists & Group-specific TBRs inside the app. * Polls - run a vote to see which books your group should read. * Calendars - schedule your Group meetings & automatically send reminders. * Write reviews when you finish your books and share them with the world! * Get alerts when your friends post; keep in sync by sharing your location in the book * Tag your comments as spoilers - they're hidden from others until they open them * Use the Virtual Highlighter to highlight passages (and extract quotes!) from physical books, and share them with friends. * Keep & manage your To Be Read List (TBR) by saving interesting books you find in the app. * Use our handy barcode scanner to remember books you find in a bookstore * Read classic works for free right inside the app! Tens of thousands of classic works are available. * Social Reading lets you highlight and comment right inside the book, and share with your group. * Share readings on social media and websites to open them to the public!
Read books FOR FREE right inside the app. Browse classic books from Project Gutenberg, Standard eBooks, and other sources. Use our built-in eReader to read the book, sharing notes and comments with your friends RIGHT INSIDE THE book. Look for the "Read Free!" tag on the top left of the cover art for the book to see books you can read for free.
Bookship Premium is a monthly subscription that helps you get the most out of your reading and your reading groups.
* Book Briefings provide curated content about your book - reading guides, author interviews & reviews. Great for getting ready for your book club meeting! * Bookship Premium enables groups with 10+ members. (Groups with less than 10 members are free.) * Ad-free experience. Bookship Premium is guaranteed ad-free, and helps us keep Bookship going!
Bookship Premium is $2.99 per month in the U.S. Prices will vary by your location. Get started with a 2-week free trial! We believe Books Change Lives; we donate 10% of our revenue to great literacy nonprofits. Join us in supporting literacy.
Privacy Policy: https://www.bookshipapp.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.bookshipapp.com/terms
Recent changes: This version includes improvements to the integrated eReader, including better menu display and independently controllable screen brightness in the reader. It fixes defects related to embedded Youtube video display, and image uploads for comments.
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Comments on Bookship: a virtual book club for Android
★★★★★Deb Walsh· Feb 28, 2026
As a professional book club facilitator and teacher I was initially skeptical about a tool to manage virtual bc meetings, but Bookship has won me over. It's the real deal!
★★★★☆Trinity· Dec 7, 2024
Won't let me start a reading. Kept saying network error even when on Wi-Fi at home. -I emailed them, and they were able to fix the technical errors and help me get it working right. So far so good! We are enjoying it, and I love that the book we're reading has the PDF in our group available for us to read and mark up together virtually!
★★☆☆☆Ankur Vishwakarma· Oct 13, 2019
Hey app is not opening at first place it gives error "connection to the server was unsuccessful (file:///android_asset/www/index.html) i really wnt to use the app u have reading frnds n we wnt synchronized reading hoping for help
★☆☆☆☆Angelene Joanne· Oct 4, 2022
I don't quite understand this app, do you need to have the book in hand, or you can access to all the books on the app for free and read it with your friends? Why isn't there any options for me to click and read the books? If you can't read the books in the app what's the purpose of this app?
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Technologies used by Bookship: a virtual book club
Bookship: a virtual book club is requesting 29 permissions and is using 17 libraries.
Permissions
Development tools
test access to protected storage
Your personal information
read calendar events plus confidential information,
read your contacts,
add or modify calendar events and send email to guests without owners' knowledge,
modify your contacts
Network communication
view network connections,
view Wi-Fi connections,
pair with Bluetooth devices,
full network access,
Google Play billing service,
receive data from Internet
Your accounts
use accounts on the device
Storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Hardware controls
take pictures and videos,
change your audio settings,
record audio,
control vibration
Each subscription will automatically renew 3 days before the expiration date for
the same time period. Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time before the renewal.