Shelf Life Book Tracker

Shelf Life is a private app to track your reading life, especially if you use a Kobo.

Track what you're reading, what you've finished, and what you want to read next. Search by title or ISBN, pull in covers and metadata from public catalogs, or add your own custom books and covers when something doesn't show up.

And when you're ready to read on your Kobo, Shelf Life sends the epub there directly, over your home Wi-Fi, in a couple of taps.

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SEND TO KOBO
Drop an epub onto any book in your library. Tap Send to Kobo. Shelf Life starts a tiny server on your phone, shows you a short local web address, and you type it into your Kobo's built-in browser. Tap download. Done. This is all accomplished via WiFi wireless.

No cables, no Adobe Digital Editions, no uploading your books to a stranger's cloud. The file goes from your phone to your Kobo and nowhere else.

PRIVATE AND LOCAL BY DESIGN
- No account. No sign-in. No sync server.
- Your library lives on your device.
- Epub files stay on your device or on your local network.
- No analytics. No tracking. No third-party SDKs. No ads.

TRACK YOUR LIBRARY
- Reading, Finished, and Want to Read shelves
- Search by title or ISBN, with covers and metadata from public book catalogs
- Add custom books and custom covers for anything the catalogs miss
- Notes, ratings, and a clean reading history
- Preview and read the epub files.
- Sync percentage read of each book via USB cable.

QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK
support@shelflife.page

Made by a small studio in New York for people who still keep a stack of books on the nightstand.