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OpenMargin

A good book is worth sharing to your peers just as ideas needs to spread to gain recognition. And currently, there are a lot of sites that allows people who generally love books to come together and talk about them. Such sites are Quillp and ReadWhale. Then again at a time like ours where tables are available within our reach, we should use this technology to our advantage. Thus, it is just logical to discover new apps and services which help book lovers to easily associate with one another. And so an iPad app that allows you to share your ideas on an ebook you’re presently reading is now available at your fingertips. It is called OpenMargin.

In a nutshell, OpenMargin allows you to create notes that you can add anytime in any title and can later be shared with your closest circle of friends or to those people you’re not really that familiar, nevertheless have the same tastes on books. The idea is quite simple: it lets you be acquainted with people who could make good book recommendation for you, like books by the author you love or even names you have never encountered. What’s more to that is that you could also share your ideas on certain plots or discuss parts that have got you confused along the way, and characters that you have grown to like.

The OpenMargin team has the mission to develop a platform wherein “conversations that matter” are mutual within books that you love. Simply put, the questions or statements that have been placed in the open margin become the foundation of discussion. Essentially, it has turned out to be a public room to all readers of the very same book.

Now if all that has been said sound appealing to you, then you can experience it for yourself by downloading the application from iTunes. In spite of everything, it is just free of charge.