Don't just read.
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Track your reading. Capture your thinking. Albuc blends Goodreads' structure with Notion's writing flow.

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Goodreads has the shelf.
Notion has the page.
Albuc has both.

Library

Every book you've
ever picked up.

Add any book from Open Library — covers, authors, year, page count, all in. Track what you own, what you're reading, what you've finished. Rate it. Keep it.

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Your shelf, not someone else's algorithm.

Notes

Your words.
Not your highlights.

Write notes in Markdown. Read them back as serif prose, the way you'd want them printed. Albuc keeps what you thought about the book — not what someone else underlined.

What did I think about Zero to One?
You wrote that Thiel's 0 → 1 frame is the through-line — real progress means creating something new, not competing in crowded markets1. You linked this to The Creative Act: that paying close attention is choosing what to make real2.
1
On Zero to One
"Every moment in business happens only once."
2
On The Creative Act
"Attention is a form of devotion. Choosing where to put it is choosing what to make real."

Ask

Talk to your
library.

Ask anything. The answer comes from your own notes — not the web, not a summary, not a generic AI guess. Every claim is cited back to the page you wrote it on.

"I wanted one place. A library that felt like mine. Not a social feed, not a generic note app. Something where I could later ask 'what did I think about X?'and get an answer from my notes, not the internet."

— Andrés Bolívar

Why I built this

From book to brain. Effortlessly.

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