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My name is Shravan R and I am a high schooler at the West Windsor - Plainsboro School District. I really love to read books, and my dad always used to spend a long time just looking at what book I can read next. I wanted to alleviate this problem for others, so I created a website to help others find what books they want to read next quickly, without having to spend a lot of time finding the age rating, reviews, availability etc. BookVine.io also has links to both your local county library and Amazon for quick and easy access to whatever book you need. I have read all books on this website, and every single review is written by me and my sister!
Online libraries are an underrated way of reading books (especially ebooks). You can easily get books from the library for you to read, and they are free as well!
With this website, you have links to go directly to your local library, as well as amazon. You can find the books by age, genre and even series! This website is easy to use, and can really help you out a ton! Also, you can set the library settings so that the library links are to your county/city.
Thank you so much to KCLS and the Plainsboro Library for having such a large collection of books!
Before I started to build this website, I decided to use Webflow over some other websites like Wix. I started learning Webflow through the tutorials at Webflow University, which were super easy to follow and learn. What I like about Webflow is that the visuals are super clean and aesthetic, and so it is really easy to use. My dad guided me through this process providing help whenever I needed it. Creating BookVine.io took about 6 months, but without Webflow I believe it would have been even longer.
I have been working on BookVine.io for about 3 years, and since the summer of 2021, we have achieved some incredible milestones. We got featured in Hacker News as well as at Webflow, for being their July 2023 Student of the Month.
In the future, I hope to make BookVine.io an official non-profit, to help donate books to underprivileged children in India, so that they can experience the joy of reading along with us. I have experience with non-profits, from when I volunteered to teach children living in slums in India english during the Covid-19 pandemic. Knowing how little they have and the conditions they are forced to suffer through has truly motivated me to help alleviate their suffering, book by book.
This feedback can really help me, I can use it to improve the website, and create a better experience for you!