[willemh]

A place to connect the books you want to read with friends who already own them, and vice-versa. Imagine a distributed library composed of your friends’ books.

Encouraging sharing with friends and starting conversations about topics you might never have considered having not known they were into the same books as you.

Very rough draft but it has the core functionality, even if it’s a bit cumbersome.

https://opnshlf.com

[moralestapia]

Hey, just a suggestion,

I thought of doing this a while ago but for children books, never went on to actually do it but I definitely see a need in there,

* Children books are quite expensive

* Most of those you get over them in a couple minutes to an hour

* Your kids want new books every single day

Buying 5-10 and regularly trading them with other parents seems like a neat solution.

[willemh]

I like this idea. Would you imagine the functionality being much different to what is already there? Or is it more a difference of framing?

[moralestapia]

I think it's mostly a framing situation.

Two big things that are different:

As an adult, many of the books one buys is to keep them. There's even that saying "He who lends a book is an ..."; working against you. In contrast, most of your children books you get rid of them, garage sale, give them away, whatever. Save for a few of them that become special, most are pretty much disposable.

As an adult, buying books is not a pressing situation, sure there's a lot of those you'd want to buy but you can easily put that for later, even forget about it. Take a kid into a bookstore and they want all the books, and they want them at that moment. So, it is more of a pressing issue to keep your kids busy with new books all the time.

PS: If you need a partner on this, I'd be up for it! My daughter is past the stage of kid books now but I wouldn't mind building it for the benefit of other kids.

[will_wright]

love the idea! I would have registered if it weren't using passkey. is there a reason you chose this for user verification? I've never used it and am hesitant to adopt technologies that give chrome more control over the browser market

[PufPufPuf]

Many password managers have passkey support, I'm using the free version of Bitwarden and can recommend it. Windows Hello can also be used, and afaik Apple Keychain too.

[willemh]

Thanks!

I chose it because I wanted to learn more about passkeys and I liked the idea that I wouldn’t have to deal with private credentials themselves; just save a public key to my database. I use both KeePassXC and Bitwarden and they’re slowly getting support for passkeys (currently only on desktop).

I briefly had the ability to add a new passkey to the same account but wanted to keep it simple for my friends and not confuse them more. If that’s something that could help I’d be open to adding it in again.

[danthedudeis]

Hey

I've been wanting to build this too. Want to chat? Happy to collaborate

My username at gmail.com