Early public overview

Helping educational books find new homes.

Helping educational books find new homes through mobile-first inventory, QR workflows, and community-focused donation tools.

Launch Demo Open Documentation

The interactive demo lives under /static-demo/. Documentation lives under /docs/.

Documentation

Static Demo

Repository

Let Books concept cover showing mobile-first book rescue and library workflow visuals

Early Alpha Notice

Let Books is currently an early alpha and concept-validation project.

This repository already includes a public documentation site and a browser-only local demo. Some visuals and workflow examples illustrate the intended direction of the project rather than a finished production system.

Any libraries, universities, archives, nonprofits, public institutions, companies, cloud providers, or external systems mentioned in the documentation are referenced only as conceptual examples or possible future integration scenarios. No formal partnerships, endorsements, approvals, sponsorships, funding relationships, or deployments currently exist unless explicitly stated elsewhere.

References to organizations, standards, platforms, or technologies, including public-sector, European, cloud, or identity-provider ecosystems, do not imply affiliation, endorsement, certification, approval, or responsibility for the project.

This repository is published under the Apache License 2.0 for public, educational, nonprofit, and institutional use.

Why Let Books Exists

Educational books often remain useful long after they stop being actively used. Let Books is focused on the practical work needed to preserve them, reduce waste, make donation manageable, help libraries and communities review them, and keep real storage logistics visible from the beginning.

Preserve useful collections

Serious study books, textbooks, academic references, and multilingual collections should not disappear just because they are hard to sort.

Make donation practical

The goal is not only description. It is also being able to scan a box, find a copy, export a review list, and retrieve the right books later.

Support communities and libraries

Structured exports, review workflows, and storage-aware pick lists help books move from forgotten shelves to new readers.

Workflow Preview

The core workflow is intentionally practical, mobile-first, and useful even before production infrastructure or deeper integrations exist.

Scan a box QR code

Open the right box immediately and keep intake tied to a real location.

Add books from phone

Capture covers, scan ISBN where possible, and save quickly with minimal typing.

Export for review

Prepare structured spreadsheets for libraries and other reviewers without requiring accounts first.

Import review decisions

Bring wanted, maybe, and not-wanted decisions back into one consistent workflow.

Generate pick lists

Group requested books by room, shelf, and box so retrieval is realistic.

Retrieve requested books

Find the correct physical copy again instead of reopening every box from memory.

Latest from Let Books

Recent writing and reference material from across the Let Books knowledge base.

Blog

When the Demo Is Evidence and When It Is Not

How to use demos and prototypes as useful implementation evidence without letting them silently become the product specification.

Learning

How to Write a Spec That AI Can Follow

This guide explains how to write a product or feature specification that helps AI-assisted implementation stay aligned with real product goals instead of drifting toward generic output.

Wiki

Validation Layers

Validation layers are the different ways a project checks whether implementation, documentation, and delivery artifacts still match intended rules and quality expectations.

Read Docs In...

Choose a documentation language or open the full documentation language index. The demo app is separate from the docs.

Open docs language index

EnglishDocumentation SlovenščinaDokumentacija HrvatskiDokumentacija BosanskiDokumentacija Srpski latinicaDokumentacija Српски ћирилицаДокументација МакедонскиДокументација ShqipDokumentim DeutschDokumentation ItalianoDocumentazione FrançaisDocumentation EspañolDocumentación

Documentation Paths

The current docs are organized around practical audiences and concrete workflows.

Individuals

Private donors, families, volunteers, and small groups cataloging books box by box.

Institutions

Libraries first, plus schools, universities, archives, and nonprofits reviewing structured offers.

Administrators

People defining access, privacy boundaries, operational rules, and future hosting direction.

Current Status

Let Books is at an early exploratory stage. The public materials should help people understand the direction clearly without implying that future ideas are already implemented.

Available now

Documentation prototype

A public static documentation site is available with audience-focused pages and multilingual coverage.

Available now

Static-demo PWA

A browser-only static demo is available for local inventory, QR workflows, multilingual UX, and practical storage logistics.

Not built yet

No production backend

There is no production backend, hosted multi-user environment, authentication deployment, or institutional rollout yet.

Conceptual only

Integrations and partnerships

Integrations, institutional references, and architecture discussions describe future direction only and do not imply partnership, endorsement, approval, or deployment.

Preview Gallery

Selected concept visuals are included here as early workflow previews, not as evidence of a finished production system.

Workflow concept showing mobile-first intake and QR-assisted box management

Institution-oriented concept preview for review and coordination workflows

Architecture concept visual for Let Books future direction