There's a whole world
on your shelves.
Photograph your bookcase: Tomeling recognises every book and puts it back exactly where it lives, down to the shelf. Then the real journey begins — readers who share, authors worth following, booksellers worth the walk. The whole life of a book, in one place.
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24 books recognised in 30 seconds
“Machines write billions of words a day. All the more reason to read the ones a human being spent years finding.”
Tomeling was born of a conviction: in the age of AI, reading is not one more pastime — it is a quiet act of resistance. We use artificial intelligence for exactly one thing: bringing you back to books. Our manifesto is an open letter, co-signed by authors, publishers and booksellers.
One photo. A whole library.
Cataloguing a library used to take a weekend. We brought it down to a gesture.
You take the photo
One shelf, one bookcase, a whole room. Your phone is enough.
Tomeling reads it
Every spine is read: title, author, edition. Anything doubtful is put to you, never forced on you.
Everything finds its place
Each book keeps its real address — that shelf, in that bookcase. You will never hunt for one again.
Your world opens up
3D library, reading feed, friends, clubs, booksellers. The catalogue was only the front door.
Those who read, those who write,
those who recommend. Together.
A book never lives alone. It passes from hand to hand, gets argued over, lent, signed. Tomeling brings together everyone who keeps it alive.
Readers
A feed that shows only what matters: what the people close to you are reading, the clubs taking members, the challenges going round. You come in for five minutes and leave with three books you want.
“Léa is reading The Waves. Marc started a list.”
Authors
Follow them the way you follow an artist. Their next book is already waiting in your feed; their next signing shows up with the walking distance to the table.
“An author you read is back. September 4th.”
Booksellers
Your bookseller gets a page, a community, a voice. Their events land in your pocket; your wish list knows them. The shop on the corner, at the heart of the digital.
“Saturday, 4 p.m., 900 metres away.”
Every book knows where it lives.
The 3D that finds anything
Your bookcases rebuilt, your books in their real places. Ask for a title: the others fade, that one lights up. All that is left is reaching for it.
One library per household
Family or flatshare: the books belong to the house, the reading stays personal. Separate profiles, private notes, and the pleasure of finding out what the other one is reading.
A wish list that keeps your secrets
Share all of it, part of it, or none of it — book by book. The people close to you will know what to give; the surprise you are keeping for yourself stays invisible.
Your reading comes with you
The book you are on stays a screen away, page after page. Share it, or don't: at Tomeling, showing what you read is a choice, never a setting you forgot.
Reading is a team sport.
Clubs that actually meet
One book, one place, one date. Public or between friends, Tomeling clubs end up around a table — and nobody is required to have finished the book.
Challenges that turn pages
“Twelve books before December.” Set the challenge, bring your friends in, post the result as a story. The pride of reading is worth sharing too.
Loans that come back
Who has your copy of Vagabonds? Tomeling remembers for you: who, since when, a gentle nudge. Lend without counting — the app is counting for you.
Your wish list knows
the way to the bookshop.
- Tomeling crosses your wish list with the independent booksellers around you. When a book is waiting ten minutes away, you know about it.
- Bookshops join Tomeling for free: a page, events, reading challenges, messages to their community. No toll between a bookseller and their readers — ever.
- Name your main bookshop: their events and their recommendations come first.
3 books from your list are waiting at 2 independent bookshops.
Wanting a book deserves better than a cardboard box on the doormat: a door that chimes, a recommendation, a detour by bike.
See the detour →We don't even know
what you are called.
And that is on purpose. Tomeling is built so that there is nothing about you to sell.
A pseudonym is enough
No first-name or last-name field, anywhere. A pseudonym, an avatar, an email to open the door. Nothing else to protect, because nothing else exists.
Zero cookies, zero trackers
No banner to accept: there is nothing to consent to. Anonymous statistics, hosted in Europe, and that is all.
Private, action by action
Everything you do belongs to you. Every share is an explicit choice — the only public thing is the books that join Tomeling, never who brought them.
Your shelves stay at home
Photographs of your home are intimate data: private storage, never exposed, deletable in one gesture.
Free, with no asterisk
Tomeling is free for readers. No subscription hidden behind the tenth shelf: the project is funded by the people who want others to read — publishers, booksellers, schools — never off your back.
Leave with everything
Your catalogue, your notes, your lists: exportable in one click, at any time. A library is not something you hold hostage.
Your books are waiting for you.
So are ours.
“Make people read. Make them read again. Make them read more.”
Step into TomelingIn your browser, nothing to install. Coming from Goodreads? Your library follows you in two minutes.
Two emails, no more: the public launch, and the iOS app.