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OpenBooks

Every book lying on your shelf is locked value.

Let’s put it on-chain.

Not only that someone looking for the same book around you could use the book, but also be your friend.

Books have been seen as just mediums to carry some knowledge and stories. But they are nothing but a bundle of values.

When people who hold same values meet, there is a bond to be formed - friendships, sparring ideas, book clubs, maybe more.

Use cases

• Getting books on-chain: In the RWA sense, books are locked value. We can unlock that value by creating the most decentralised global library network that is run by passionate readers
• Bookshelf as a profile: Social media profiles provide poor, mostly unidimensional perspective of who a person is. But a collection of physical books (maybe even Kindle collection) is a deeper and truer representation of who a person is Shek. Books was an idea that was floated at a Superteam meetup
• Lending/Borrowing: This is the most practical use case. Searching books in a suburb in Bangalore or SF would enable more peer-to-peer lending/borrowing. Lending/borrowing them is the utility of this project.
• Friends: Utilitarian minds will seek lending and borrowing to read a book. But many will clearly see the database as the most intellectual and nerdy folks to make friends with. With ‘bookshelf as a profile’, it should be possible to find the people whose values align the most with me. Within a radius, readers will be able to see other readers and their collections. Simple DMs should be enough to let them connect with each other.

OpenBooks App

OpenBooks is an app where we can scan the bar codes of books on our shelves and make a listing.

This listing is visible to people in a certain radius around you.

They could request to borrow a book, pay a deposit on-chain, and borrow the book.

In most practical terms, this is a peer-to-peer book sharing network.

But in the most philosophical sense, it is the largest book lovers’ club in the world.