Books
Catalog Your Home Library
Your entire bookshelf, digitized in seconds. Just take a photo and ShelvesAI recognizes every title, author, and edition on the shelf. No barcode scanning, no manual typing.
Instant Book Recognition
Snap a photo of your shelves to digitize your library. ShelvesAI reads spines and identifies books automatically.
Author & Edition Tracking
Automatically fetch detailed metadata for each book, including title, author, publisher, edition, and ISBN.
Searchable Inventory
Never buy a duplicate copy again. Search your entire collection by title, author, genre, or any detail.
Why catalog your home library?
Most book lovers have the same problem: shelves full of books and no easy way to remember what they own. You buy a book you already have. You lend a copy and forget who has it. You know you own a particular title but can't find it anywhere in the house.
A digital catalog solves all of this. With ShelvesAI, a single photo of your bookshelf creates a searchable record of every title. It takes seconds instead of the hours you'd spend typing each book into a spreadsheet or scanning barcodes one at a time.
How ShelvesAI compares to barcode scanning
Traditional book cataloging apps ask you to scan each book's barcode individually. For a shelf of 40 books, that means pulling every book off the shelf, finding the barcode, scanning it, and putting it back. ShelvesAI takes a different approach: photograph the entire shelf at once. Our vision system reads the spines and identifies each title in bulk. What used to take an afternoon now takes a few minutes.
This works especially well for older books and used copies where barcodes may be missing, damaged, or pre-ISBN. ShelvesAI recognizes books by their spines, not their barcodes, so your vintage paperback collection is just as easy to catalog as new releases.
Built for serious readers
Whether you have a single bookcase or a room dedicated to your library, ShelvesAI scales with your collection. Track lending, tag books by genre or reading status, and discover what other collectors are reading through the social feed. Your collection is the star and we just help you keep it organized.
How it works
Photograph your bookshelf
Hold your phone up to any bookshelf, stack, or pile. ShelvesAI reads the spines so you never have to pull books out one by one.
Every title identified
Books are matched to their exact edition with author, publisher, page count, and cover art filled in automatically.
Browse and share your library
Your complete home library, searchable and organized. Keep it private or share it with fellow book lovers.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I catalog my entire bookshelf at once?
- Just take a photo of your bookshelf with your phone camera. ShelvesAI's vision system reads the spines and identifies each book automatically. For large collections, you can photograph each shelf or stack separately and everything gets added to your single shelf/catalog.
- Does ShelvesAI recognize first editions and rare books?
- ShelvesAI identifies books by their spine text and matches them to known editions in our catalog database. It pulls in publisher, edition year, and ISBN information when available. For rare or unusual editions, you can always edit the details manually.
- How accurate is the book recognition?
- ShelvesAI uses advanced vision AI to read book spines. Accuracy is highest with clearly visible spines in good lighting. Worn spines, very thin books, or books shelved with the spine facing inward may need a closer photo or manual entry.
- Does it work with books in languages other than English?
- ShelvesAI can recognize spine text in many languages and will attempt to match books to the correct edition. Metadata availability varies by language and region, but the core recognition works across Latin-script languages.
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