PassageShelf

PassageShelf is a private library for the books you read on paper. Photograph a page and the passage becomes text you can search, tag, and revisit. No retyping, and no highlighting tool that only works on e-books. WHAT IT DOES Capture by camera. Point at a page and PassageShelf reads it on the device with Google ML Kit, the same text recognition Android uses for circle-to-search. Crop, straighten, and cleanup happen in a single step. Keep a real library. Every book carries its cover, reading progress, chapters, notes, tags, and collections. Search by title or ISBN and the details fill in from Open Library. Resurface what you saved. A review feed brings passages back on a spaced schedule, so the lines you cared about return weeks later instead of dying in a notebook. Switch on the daily quote and one passage arrives each morning. See your reading. Streaks, lifetime totals, and the books you keep returning to. Share a line. Turn any passage into a quote card image and send it anywhere. Bring your library with you. Import from Goodreads CSV or JSON, and export everything at any time as a portable archive. Lend and get books back. Record who borrowed which book and when it is due. PRIVACY No ads, no trackers, no analytics. Your library lives on servers in the European Union, backups are encrypted, and you can delete your account and everything in it from Settings whenever you want. Text recognition can be set to run without ever contacting Google. Self-hosters can point the app at their own server instead. English, French, and Dutch. One light theme and two dark ones.