Catalog is our way to care for book people online. We believe that our relationships to books would be strengthened by a digital home that directly serves those who care most for the craft. We find that existing platforms like Amazon’s Goodreads are far down the path of enshittification and have failed the readers and the writers and everyone in between who care deeply about books. We imagine something better.
We imagine a space that will help the book community to take care of itself online, to curate what matters, and to contribute to the collective knowledge of books and our relationships with them. We've built a social network on top of the Open Library and are working to integrate with an ecosystem of builders and projects that share our care for user agency and open data (e.g. Internet Archive, Wikipedia, ActivityPub, AT Protocol, etc.). We hope to serve as a cozy bookish corner of the open social web as it develops.
We're welcoming contributions to help build a better place for books online -- please support the hosting, maintenance, and development of the site through Open Collective (about $100/mo today) or reach out about how else you'd like to help out!
