BookHive

BookHive V2 is here 📚💙

The open social, open data alternative to Goodreads, login with your Bluesky account to try it out.

Track your books, organize your shelves, see your stats and connect with fellow buzzers on bookhive.buzz

BookHive — Reading is better together

Track your books, connect with friends, and discover your next favourite read on an open, social platform.

Two new features:

Now, you can track progress on books you are currently reading. I'm using a similar shape to @popfeed.social's book progress tracking, which should make it easier to inter-op in the future.

We've also implemented proper OAuth scopes, which means minimal permissions to your data!

We now support importing books from a Goodreads export!

This allows you to migrate over your books to a platform that respects your data, built on ATProto.

Finally, Apple got around to approving the corresponding mobile app for the BookHive V2 update!

Check it out on iOS: app.bookhive.buzz

BookHive App for iOS

The BookHive iOS app lets you manage, organize, and review your books anywhere.

Just landed a major refactor to BookHive, we are now all in on atcute by @mary.my.id, now the server runs on @bun.sh, and a huge refactor to a sane directory structure with @hono.dev

github.com/nperez0111/b...

refactor: move to atcute, switch to bun, sane directory layout by nperez0111 · Pull Request #64 · nperez0111/bookhive

refactor: move to atcute chore: rm packages feat: switch out the ingestor for atcute refactor: switch to node:sqlite refactor: migrate to bun build: instrumentation for bun fix: rm axios build: sli...

We have a new feature that we are testing out, an XRPC API for getting the identifiers that we know of for a book. This should make it easier to find books in the hive or resolve isbn, isbn13, goodreads ids to hive ids.

This is another step towards making the bookhive dataset even more open

We now export our entire DB weekly on GitHub, this means that anyone looking to run a bookhive instance can do so without having to bootstrap from scratch.

This export does not include any non-public user data, and includes all of the book metadata that we've collected over the years.

This is definitely the sort of thing that I have in mind with book interop. The reality is that with so many data sources for books, that there needs to be some sort of mapping of books, which would need the user to explicitly decide on the mapping.

Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org

after a fun chat with @laurenshof.online and @ronentk.me I finally made time to write up some more thoughts about interoperability in the atmosphere without needing to share lexicons! notes.wesleyfinck.org/3maq3h26ook2h

Two Types of Interoperability Without Sharing Lexicons - Wesley's notes

Sharing lexicons is not the only way to leverage atproto’s interoperability

We made it to 100 stars on GitHub, thanks everyone!

Just added more book data scraping to BookHive!

Much more info added, longer book descriptions, author bios, publication details & even genres.

Here is a before & after:

Thanks to @tijs.org we now have author pages, where you can see all the books an author has published (at least the ones we indexed so far)

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Love the interop that @popfeed.social has integrated.

Real ATProto vibes

Popfeed @popfeed.social

📚🎥👾🎵📺 New Popfeed app update rolling out now! • Appview sync with @bookhive.buzz is now in beta! All of your books from bookhive are now displayed in Popfeed. • Various bug fixes, performance and design improvements. Letterboxd import errors resolved. Loading times should be significantly faster.

@popfeed.social how are you able to do this? Very cool!

B. Prendergast @renderg.host

Actually delighted to see how @popfeed.social has picked up my book reading activity — originally added to @bookhive.buzz — thanks to the power of #ATproto

After a fearsome battle against bots trying to scrape the site & ruining the performance for actual users. The hive has prevailed!

If anyone sees performance issues with the site, please tag me with what you saw!

Reply to @bookhive.buzz

This represents just the beginning of a series of refactors that I want to make with the BookHive code base. The project started as just an experiment to see if people were interested in Goodreads on ATProto.

Now, it is time to "make it real" and be a proper alternative!

Next up, UI/UX

@brittanyellich.com I just watched your bsky.app/profile/brit... #Atmosphereconf talk.

I heard from a few people that you were doing some interesting stuff that I might be interested in, and they were right!

I'd love to see if BookHive could add book clubs based on @opensocial.community

Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com

My talk from #Atmosphereconf is available to watch! There has been so much energy around groups/communities on ATProto and I'm SO excited to see how things transform in this space!! youtu.be/GVOywon3X-Q?...

Who owns the group chat? Building collaborative spaces on ATProto - ATmosphereConf 2026

YouTube video by AT Protocol Development, Tech Talks, and Events

New app update out!

You can now see your books in a list view from the homepage, with sorting by date added, date read and more

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Bookhive app spotted!

Boris @bmann.ca

I have a whole folder of ATProto apps on iOS (plus a select few directly on my Home Screen). Today we call them “ATproto” apps. In the future … they’re just a better way to build a wide range of apps, where users own their data, login in anywhere, and choose different interfaces.

Now, when viewing your own profile page, you'll see a dense table view of all of your books in your hive.

This should allow for easier management of book statuses, after a large import!

Thanks to @tijs.org, we now won't log you out every 15 minutes.

And, more importantly, we now have a "recent buzzes from friends", keep up with any book updates from people you follow on bluesky!

Had to renew the BookHive domain today (I can't believe it has almost been 1 year)

It costed 42 dollars, between that & the Apple Developer subscription it will cost me $150 / year to keep BookHive alive

So, I started a Ko-Fi where you can tip me if you like BookHive & want to see it stick around!

Reply to @bookhive.buzz

This is huge in terms of data portability, now anyone should be able to build a service like BookHive with this data

Thanks to @jakelazaroff.com, I was able to add this to @bookhive.buzz's login page:

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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com

threw together a lil web component to add this to any input. super easy progressive UX enhancement for your atproto app! tangled.org/@jakelazarof...

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Working on getting a submission to the App Store for the BookHive iOS app.

Here is a little sneak peek 😉