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Italy's most popular book social network — 40M+ titles, reviews, and reading shelves for bibliophiles.
Italian-owned book social network with over 40M catalogued titles. Track reading progress, rate and review books, organize personal libraries, and share your passion with a worldwide community. Owned by Italian developer Ovolab since 2019.
Anobii is an independent social network for book lovers — a place to catalogue personal libraries, rate and review titles, follow friends, and discover what other readers are enjoying. Members build shelves of read, reading, and wishlist books, join thematic groups, and browse community charts curated by millions of readers worldwide.
The platform runs as a web-based community with profile pages, discussion groups, reading challenges, and a bookstore directory connecting readers to independent shops. Users can propose new titles, contribute metadata, and follow an activity feed of reviews and ratings from people they trust, keeping book discovery human rather than algorithmic.
Key benefits:
- Personal library cataloguing read, reading, and wishlist collections
- Ratings and reviews surfacing honest feedback from a global readership
- Reader community with groups, discussions, and friend activity feeds
- Community charts ranking books by genuine member engagement
- Bookstore directory linking readers to independent local booksellers
- User contributions allowing proposals and edits to book metadata
Anobii is headquartered in Milan, Italy, founded in 2006 and now owned by Italian publishing group Mondadori. European-hosted and GDPR-compliant, Anobii offers readers a sovereign alternative to Amazon-owned Goodreads, keeping book data and community interactions inside the EU.
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