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Community book sharing
Create a shelf for your book club, neighborhood, or friend group. Add your books, invite your people, and start lending — free, forever.
How it works
Name your shelf and invite your people. Works for book clubs, neighborhoods, offices — any group that reads.
Search by title or scan the barcode. Mark what's available to borrow right now. Covers load automatically.
Request books from members. Lend yours out. Track who has what. Keep the stories moving.
"Every book sitting unread is a story waiting to be found."
Books don't change lives on shelves. They do it hand to hand — borrowed, returned, recommended, passed on. Folkshelf keeps them moving.
Built for readers
No algorithm deciding what you should read. You control who joins, what gets listed, and how lending works. Folkshelf just keeps track.
Book clubs, street libraries, offices, families. Any group that loves reading together.
No subscriptions. No paywalls. No surprise fees. Folkshelf is free to use, forever.
Know exactly where every book is. Who has it, when they borrowed it, when it's due back. No spreadsheets, no sticky notes, no forgetting.
Takes 30 seconds. No credit card required. Your community will love you for it.
No ads. No tracking. No BS.
Your shared community libraries. Pick a shelf to browse its collection.
Books your community is sharing
All borrowing requests, loans, and returns