A café for people who love books.
One room to write them in. One room to read them together. Same table, same coffee, and one account that opens both doors.
Write your novel
A distraction-free page that never changes, and everything around it that does — characters, a plot map, a timeline, your notes, a focus timer, your own music. Nine genre worlds to write in; one sacred page they all leave alone.
- Chapters, characters, plot, timeline
- Publish and be read
- Your words are never used to train a model
Read one together
Start a club, pick a book — or let the club vote on it — and read at the same pace. A countdown to the next discussion, a board that keeps spoilers covered, and a review card to fill in when you close the last page.
- A shared shelf and a reading schedule
- Spoiler-safe discussions
- A club card you can actually send someone
Two rooms, one door
Writers read and readers write, so BookBeans never asks you to choose. You get one account, one name, one profile, one set of friends and one inbox — and then you use whichever room you feel like today, or both, or neither.
One account
Sign up once. Your library card, your username and your badge follow you into both rooms.
One set of friends
The people you know are the people you know. Friends, chats and notifications are shared, not duplicated.
One feed
A chapter you published and a review your club wrote turn up in the same place, because they are both news.
It goes something like this
- 08:10
You write four hundred words before work. The timer keeps you honest; nobody sees the draft but you.
- 13:00
Your club is three chapters from the end. You log where you got to, and last night’s thread about the lighthouse finally opens.
- 19:30
Everyone turns up for the discussion. The countdown said "in 2 days" all week, so nobody forgot.
- 22:45
You close the book, fill in the review card, and it goes up for the club before you have put the kettle on.
The coffee is already on
Free, self-hosted, and quiet about it. Come in through whichever door you like.
Pull up a chair and chat
A question, an idea, a bug, feedback, or just hello — write a note and it lands straight in my inbox. If you leave an email, I’ll write back.
Or take half an hour of my evening: pick a slot and I’ll walk you through the whole café live. The invite lands in your Google Calendar with an agenda and the handbook attached.