App Gives You Free Ebooks of Your Paperbacks When You Take a "Shelfie"

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @01:35PM from the show-us-the-pages dept.

Peter Hudson writes Alan Henry writes on LifeHacker: "Paper books are awesome, but sometimes there's no beating the portability of an ebook on your phone or tablet. If you have a physical book you'd love to read on the go, BitLit may be able to get you an ebook version for free—all you need to do is take a photo of your book case: a 'shelfie.'" CNET notes that it's not quite as useful as it sounds: "As you might expect from a startup in the e-book space, BitLit currently offers a very limited selection -- only about 75,000 books, so the likelihood of a match is pretty slim. Browsing the library, I recognized very few mainstream authors."

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Re:I'm the app's developer. Happy to answer questi by peter.hudson452 · 2014-12-24 14:43 · Score: 5, Funny

LOL... nothing. If I'd paid them then I'd have paid them not to post it on Xmas eve.
Re:I'm the app's developer. Happy to answer questi by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-24 22:58 · Score: 3, Funny

Just submit it again in a week or two, I'm sure it'll make the front page again.