Some books change you. The best ones, you want to share — not after, but during. Right at the page that wrecked you. inkwool is where that happens.
No spam. We'll reach out personally when we're ready for you.
The moment you want to share
At some point in every great book, something shifts. A character says the thing you've never heard said. A moment lands and you have to put the book down. You feel something — specifically, at a specific page — that you need to share with someone who was also there.
But sharing it has always been broken
Someone hasn't reached that chapter. One message and the moment is ruined for them forever. So you hold back. The feeling slips away unsaid.
By then the feeling has faded. The conversation you wanted — the one about that exact scene — never quite lands the way it should have. Memory fades. The window closes.
The connection you felt at that page — the one that mattered — disappears. Every time. You close the book. The feeling slips away alone.
What if that connection had a home? Not a chat. Not a spoiler. The exact feeling you had, waiting at the exact page — for the person who's ready to feel it too.
This is inkwool.
The time dimension
The moment of reading is everything. Not the summary, not the review, not the conversation three weeks later when the feeling has faded. The reaction you had at exactly page 247. That is what inkwool preserves — and what makes it unlike anything that has come before.
She read it last spring and it moved her deeply. You finished it fourteen months later. The conversation she'd been waiting for — her notes are there, at every chapter that mattered. The window didn't close. inkwool held it open.
Your father read everything. He had opinions about every page, reactions to every twist. Those thoughts lived only in his head — until now. inkwool lets the people we lose leave something behind in every book they loved.
Three friends. Different cities. Different schedules. Reading the same book across six weeks. Their reactions don't wait for the monthly call — they arrive in real time, at the right page, the right moment, exactly as intended.
"The connection you feel with the best books and the best book clubs can now transcend time."
This is the soul of inkwool.
Who inkwool is for
inkwool works wherever a book is shared — across a kitchen table, a decade, or a continent. The room holds everyone, at every pace.
Different cities, different schedules, reading the same book across months. Their notes find each other at every chapter that matters — no phone calls required, no one waiting, no moment lost.
inkwool keeps the conversation going across years and distances — book by book, chapter by chapter. The dynamic of your best reading group, preserved even as life pulls you apart.
No more pretending you remember exactly how you felt at chapter nine. Reactions arrive in real time, at the right page, exactly as intended. The meeting becomes richer because you've already been there together.
A university seminar, a reading group, a text everyone is working through. Reactions anchor to the exact passage — not in a separate document nobody reads, but in the book itself, waiting for you.
The mechanic
Platform-agnostic. Works alongside your Kindle, Libby, Audible, or physical book. No new reading habit required — just a chapter number.
Pick a book, share a code. Friends join instantly — no account required on day one. Private, intimate, just your people around one book.
Mark your chapter or page. Drop a reaction — a feeling, a warning, a moment of pure disbelief. It anchors to that exact position in the book, permanently.
Friends' notes appear only when you reach that position. Never before. No spoilers. Just the right words at the right moment — or years later, or after they're gone.
Live demo
Maya, David, and Priya are already reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Jump through the chapters — their notes find you when you arrive. Then leave one of your own.
Playing automatically — grab the handle any time to take over
What happens next
We're looking for 10–20 founding readers and book clubs who want to help shape what inkwool becomes. If that's you — this is the moment we want you in.
10–20 founding book clubs. Real people, real books, real reactions. Help us get every detail right before we open the doors wider.
Web and mobile. Book rooms, position tracking, progressive note reveal. Built beautifully from the ground up. Founding readers shape every decision.
inkwool grows the way good things grow — person to person, room to room, book by book. No ads. Just people who felt something and want others to feel it too.
Notes that outlast the people who wrote them. A community of readers who found a better way. A brand that means something before anyone notices it.
Founding readers are acknowledged in the product. You helped build this. That matters to us and it will show.
We're not building in a vacuum. Your experience in the first rooms shapes every decision — features, design, the whole thing.
Every feature, every book, every new room type — founding readers are first through the door. That doesn't expire.
You'll never go back to texting spoilers or waiting for the book club meeting. This changes how it feels to share a book.
Market & opportunity
Social reading has not seen meaningful innovation since Goodreads was acquired in 2013. The emotional layer — the one that captures in-the-moment reactions tied to reader position — has never been built.
Amazon acquired Goodreads in 2013 for an estimated $150 million. The asset was not the technology — it was 10 million loyal readers who trusted the platform. Social reading has seen no meaningful product innovation since. The emotional layer has never been built.
inkwool is building that community now, around a mechanic no platform has attempted. Community can't be copied. The rooms, the notes, the shared history — a platform can't replicate this with a feature launch.
Early access
We're building inkwool for people who feel deeply about books and the people they read with. If that's you — we want you in the first room.
We'll reach out personally. This isn't a mailing list — it's a room.
You're in the first room.
We'll reach out personally. Thank you for believing in this.