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Book Tech

Book Tech Projects

Bram Adams

Bram Adams

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Book Tech

[01.13.2026] I've been on an absolute tear with Claude Code creating some of my book tech ideas and bringing them to life. Below are the ones that I've built and what I think are for. Ordered from most important to least important

Book Club Discord Bot & Shared Bookshelf

commands to add/finish a book, works for all club members
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3D books, BG changes color, keyboard commands, custom URLs per member

60 Books a Year Shared Bookshelf
All the books we are reading in 2026
Ron Chernow

Check it out yourself!

Book Progress & CLI && Smart Editor

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Fun animations for parallel reading and links to characters

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Editor finds pages on my website and augments them

Audio Annotations

BookTalks App - App Store
Download BookTalks by Bram Adams on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like BookTalks.
App StoreBram Adams

Being able to converse clearly about books is proof of comprehension. Audio Annotations serves as practice and as a place to leave thoughts about the books and your relationship to them.

bookshelf homepage
Full Text and Semantic Search
Record or upload voice notes -- a cleaned transcription is provided by GPT
Speed controls for audio playback

Push To Talk Voice Recorder

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Swote (Swipe Quote)

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Reinvigorate quotes from the bookshelf

Swote - Quote Collector
Collect and save your favorite book quotes
Quote Collector

Kindle Blocker

Every minute read on Kindle is a minute earned on social media

GitHub - bramses/kindle-blocker
Contribute to bramses/kindle-blocker development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHubbramses

Short Form Videos

Same channel, three different locations

@60.books.a.year
Sixty Books a Year
The goals of this channel are: 1. To help you read 60 books a year 2. To help you comprehend and communicate about 60 books a year 3. To build and advocate for software that gets us more out of our 60 books a year I’m your host, Bram Adams
YouTube

Instagram Reels

Your Commonbase

Not directly Book Tech (since it stores many other objects as well) but putting this here because I still batch upload quotes to YCB all the time. Having interact-able, self organizing quotes shows me relationships across books.

yourcommonbase | Instagram | Linktree
A simple ledger with complex associations
Linktree

Sessions/Layers

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Layers

Photoshop Layers for Text
gh repo coming soon!!
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World Quotes

An LLM creates geolocations for quotes

Quote Bouquet

Takes a quote as a random seed (get it?) and generates a unique transparent background PNG flower

Covers Letters (aka books.json)

@ a book title to add it directly to the text input
^ the frame before the image above

Discursive Reading

A smart tree book recommendation sysytem

Graveyard/Stalled

  • 12 Favorite Embeddings - use embeddings to cluster quotes around the problems you're trying to solve in your life
  • Workbench - A Smart Canvas to compile book quotes and thoughts as research

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