Yup, and if you have any public domain books that get ID’d in your shelfie, the app will give you them for free (no need to sign the copyright page). We also do this for audiobooks... there are about 7000 public domain audiobooks that we have under license from Findaway LLC to give away for free (although I’m not sure…

We’re working on it... I’m an Android guy myself (Nexus 4) and so is my co-founder Marius. We’re usually “Android first”, but for the sign in flows on Android we used the identify on the phone so originally there was no sign in at all, whereas on iOS we had to put in a FB and G+ sign up form... as a result when it…

Yup, the app’s OCR algorithm is something we built ourselves (off the shelf libraries like Teseract aren’t very good at natural image character recogniztion)... but so far we’ve only training the algorithm for latin glyph recognition, so it won’t work on cyrillic characters — although sometimes it’ll make some…

Hey Aleph, I’m the app’s developer, are there any specific authors / publishers that you read? Let me know, so we can go an hustle that publisher / author to bring them on board. Our model relies on having the rights holder signed up to the program — a somewhat huge task, but we’ll get there eventually.

Hey AzuraBronwyn, I’m the app’s developer, please let me know how your experience goes. If the app works well / badly, and if there any specific titles that you’d like to see available (so we can hustle that publisher).

Yup that’s a new feature as of Sept of this year. You can sign in with your goodreads account (iOS only for now) and we’ll import all of the books you have in your goodreads profile and check them against the database of free / discounted ebooks and audio books that are available.

I’m the app’s developer, so happy to answer questions / supply context. As you can probably imagine, getting publishers on board isn’t the easiest thing. SO far we have ~1200 pubs on board. Last year when Alan posted about us we had ~200. We only have 2 of the “big five” on board so far (HarperCollins and Macmillan),…

If you're stuck packing those hardbacks again, check if any of your paper books are eligible for free ebook upgrades through the Shelfie app.

Have you checked out http://www.shelfie.com it allows you to download the ebook for free or cheap if you own the paper copy.

The solution is simple but the print book and get the ebook for free or cheap using something like kindle matchbook or http://www.shelfie.com

If you really want to pirate and ebook, there are probably easier ways that don't involve a high quality color printer... Just saying.

Ahh... sorry. Vince Flynn and Brad Thor are Simon & Schuster (not yet signed up). And Tom Clancy is Penguin (also not yet signed up). But I've been in touch with all of these publishers and will continue to hustle them.

Yeah, that was a website design suggestion... our designer / marketing person thought that putting pagination with numbers made the design look to utilitarian. I'm an engineer, so I'm with you on this one... but it was an argument that I didn't win.

Sorry about the delay on the shelfie processing... the surge in downloads and people sending in shelfies has been a few orders of magnitude bigger than we were ready to scale for. We've been spinning up servers as quickly as we can. We'll get there... cue the twitter #failwhale.

Yup, it's a small list for now. But there are some excellent publishers in there: E.g. O'Reilly, Packt, and Elsevier. If you like Sci-Fi, then there's Angry Robot (and they're free). Triumph has some excellent sports books (and they're also free!). For business there is Berrett-Koehler. On the general trade side of…

Curious: which of your books would you be most / least comfortable writing in?

I can answer that... so of the 80K titles that are in the system today (23 Dec 2014), about half are out of copyright works that are free as in both speech and beer. If you take a shelfie and have a print copy of an out of copyright title we'll give it to you straight away (no signing the copyright page or anything...…

Robert, thanks for downloading. Sorry you didn't have many free ebooks. It really depends on what you've got on your shelf. One of the conditions of our agreements with publishers is that they get to set the "bundled" ebook price. We suggest that if they're going to price the books (rather than give them away for…

A bookplate is perfectly acceptable! In fact we'd recommend a bookplate or an Ex Libris stamp to anybody who doesn't want to have hand writing in their book. The only validation that we need to see is that the book has been "marked" in some was with your name.

I hope we're able to help you out! The catalog is about 80,000 titles now from just over 200 publishers. Fingers crossed that we'll be able to get you some bundled eBooks before you have to move!