Unowned Books is an attempt to further socialize literature. As a humble add-on to the vast ecosystem of spaces to share our passion for books, this project invites its users to share physical books with people nearby.
You can ask another member of the community for a book that is available near you. You can also unown a book (or several) that you consider precious and make them available to other members. The act of unowning something we appreciate precedes to the moment we handed it over to a fellow reader who will as well, not own it but only keep it for a while.
After reading it, and hopefully appreciating it as much as we did, the person will mark it as available and pass it on.
In this way, Unowned Books is also a way of experimenting with our ideas about community, sharing, and ownership.
Vision
A future in which countless unowned books are passed from reader to reader, accumulating stories in their own book biographies. Made possible by a community of readers who promote ways to interact around their common passion for literature.
Mission
To become a well-established community dedicated to creating social spaces for book lovers to connect and share their passion for reading while generating a new way of valuing the books we read.