Team
Bookplate is built and maintained by SereneBooks, a small software company founded by a book lover, for book lovers.
Serene Careaga — Founder
Hi, I'm Serene. I live in Philly, and love it so. (Brag alert: my neighborhood boasts four independent bookstores in walking distance.) I share a rowhome with my partner Nikky and our geriatic cat Minerva. I love fixing problems and sometimes that means building software. I have been building software on and off for nearly 15 years. I primarily build in the Ruby programming language.
My backstory to founding SereneBooks is short: I lovelovelove books, and our household is teeming with so many that I frequently cannot find them. Whether it's a loan I forgot about or my mysterious nightstand drawer of holding, I want to know where my book piles live. Over my lifetime of hoarding books, I have considered keeping better track of their book lives. I figured I was fussy, unsure why I could not find my ideal blend of book inventory system + reading journal + loans tracker -- and also let me customize data so I can use the lovingly weathered cover of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, so I decided I to build it myself.
So, *drumroll*, meet Bookplate. This app is my token of love to my books, my fellow readers, and the authors of these special world giving me escape and drama and sorcery and magic to get through the drudgery. I really hope you like it too.
SereneBooks software products
Bookplate is our personal home library app for readers who want a private record of the books they own, where they might be, and keep track of everything they read.
OrganizedSpine is an inventory management platform for independent bookstores — built to bring the same care and attention to detail to the business side of books.
Get in touch
Questions, feedback, or just want to say hello?
hello@bookplate.app