About
Folio is what happens when you give up trying to make Goodreads stop showing you the same bestseller for the seventh time. The list is the post. Not the rating, not the algorithm, not the feed. The shelf you built.
People have always shown each other who they are by handing over a list. Mixtapes, syllabi, the books a friend keeps reorganizing in a dorm room. Folio is that, made shareable.
What you can do here
- Make a list. Title it. Add the books. Drag to reorder.
- Share the list. Every list URL gets a beautiful preview image.
- Find readers with your taste, not your demographic.
What you can't do, yet
- Follow other readers and see their new lists. Coming end of June.
- Track what you're reading right now. Coming end of June.
- Get an AI-built list ("books like Wendell Berry but shorter"). Coming by August.
- See your year in books. Coming by August.
Where the books come from
Open Library is the canonical source. Google Books fills in covers when Open Library doesn't have them. Every book gets exactly one row in our database, so the same Dune you add is the same Dune your friend adds.
Who made this
Elijah Purcell. 18, headed to the University of Alabama in the fall. Built it as a summer project before college. The aesthetic carries from a single-file HTML reading log shipped in May 2026. Folio is the social version.