I Finally Built It: Bookpile

About five years ago I had an idea for a small tool. Whenever I wanted to share a book with a friend, I had no good way to point them to a place to actually get it. I wanted something simple: give it an ISBN, get back a list of independent bookshops nearby where they could buy it, libraries where they could borrow it, and sites where they could track it. I bought the domain, created a repository…