barter.li: chat & barter books
Free AppAbout barter.li: chat & barter books
barter.li - Share and barter books on the free book exchange which connects you via a chat messenger. barter.li is not for free ebooks, just good old paperback books!
Discover books and people around you, find book collections of other people, chat with them and exchange or sell your books. Create crowd sourced libraries for reading books in every corner of the world.
barter.li is an app for book lovers. Remember those cartons full of books you have lying on the book-shelves, in the garage and cupboards? You can simply upload your books by scanning the barcode at the back of the book or manually entering the book title.
Security and privacy: We never share your actual location with others. Only your profile pic, name and about me is shared with others. You get to see the book owner's profile, chat with them and meet only at a preferred public location e.g. a cafe.
We at barter.li are motivated by a desire to bring a billion books back into circulation which otherwise just adorn bookshelves. We want to create a sense of community, promote literacy and the love of reading by creating a free book exchange which is for the people and by the people.
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barter.li is a non-profit which aims to enable sharing of a billion books across the globe.
Find books nearby, chat & meet new people to share and trade books.
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How we use the App permissions
1. android.permission.CAMERA - To scan ISBN barcodes and facilitate fetching book info easily
2. android.permission.INTERNET, android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE - To use the internet connection for communicating with barter.li servers
3. android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION - To fetch the location so we can show you books nearby.
4. android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE - For caching images locally so that we don't need to fetch them from internet continuously
5. android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS, android.permission.USE_CREDENTIALS - To allow easy sign in with accounts already present on the device
Discover books and people around you, find book collections of other people, chat with them and exchange or sell your books. Create crowd sourced libraries for reading books in every corner of the world.
barter.li is an app for book lovers. Remember those cartons full of books you have lying on the book-shelves, in the garage and cupboards? You can simply upload your books by scanning the barcode at the back of the book or manually entering the book title.
Security and privacy: We never share your actual location with others. Only your profile pic, name and about me is shared with others. You get to see the book owner's profile, chat with them and meet only at a preferred public location e.g. a cafe.
We at barter.li are motivated by a desire to bring a billion books back into circulation which otherwise just adorn bookshelves. We want to create a sense of community, promote literacy and the love of reading by creating a free book exchange which is for the people and by the people.
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barter.li is a non-profit which aims to enable sharing of a billion books across the globe.
Find books nearby, chat & meet new people to share and trade books.
******
How we use the App permissions
1. android.permission.CAMERA - To scan ISBN barcodes and facilitate fetching book info easily
2. android.permission.INTERNET, android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE - To use the internet connection for communicating with barter.li servers
3. android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION - To fetch the location so we can show you books nearby.
4. android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE - For caching images locally so that we don't need to fetch them from internet continuously
5. android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS, android.permission.USE_CREDENTIALS - To allow easy sign in with accounts already present on the device
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
v 1.1
- New, improved User Interface
- Tablet support. Now you can use barter.li on those glorious large screeners.
v 1.0.5
- Chat improvements & fixes
- UI improvements & fixes
v 1.0.4
-fixed some UI issues
-resolved some crashes
v 1.1
- New, improved User Interface
- Tablet support. Now you can use barter.li on those glorious large screeners.
v 1.0.5
- Chat improvements & fixes
- UI improvements & fixes
v 1.0.4
-fixed some UI issues
-resolved some crashes
Version update barter.li: chat & barter books was updated to version 1.1
Name changed Name changed! barter.li - free book exchange now is known as barter.li: chat & barter books.
What are users saying about barter.li: chat & barter books
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For 2 days I could not login and got no response from tech support!
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Unable to Login
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The interface is very intuitive and clutter free. Adding books is easy and quick. Must for all book lovers!!
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This app will help to educate more n more people!! Books r d real institutions!!
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Though the concept is excellent but the App really poor, I was not able to login neither from fb or google... Most of the books are not identied through barcode system, try hard but could not add any book... Its a big disappointment...
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When I click on book it wll stop execution.
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This is such a nice app... what a wonderful concept... I just wish there were more people close by for bartering... it needs more publicity and member... and the log in using Google is not working...
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Hated to the core the books don't load only
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More people should start using it to get benefit of the idea and app.
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This App's concept is good and that's about it. I'm not able to upload a pic to my profile, not able to delete the books I've added and not able to respond to the messages I get. Hope these bugs get fixed.
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Finally an app came which z nt a waste of ur data pack... dis z d app which fullfill d need of book lover....
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Nice app... I would love to tell my frinds too about this
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This app will help to educate more n more people!! Books r d real institutions!!
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Very helpful. A must have for all keen readers
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It makes people helpful to get their needed book nearby their location and reviews of book before reading it. nice platform of books lover
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very amazed with its simplicity and ease of use( loved the barcode scan feature).
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Sharing is the best concept. Great work..
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GREAT APP! A good way for reading lovers to get more books for reading. Must have for readers.
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Loved the idea!!
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Awesome app...;-)
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Awesome app
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Must for book lovers
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Loving it
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Great and very useful app
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You have got to love this app for what it is set to do - 'let books be free' . Kudos to the team.
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Good to know in an age of iPads and Kindles, people are still in love with their paperbacks.
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This app is perfect for book lovers.
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Best app to get in to the book community. Beautiful design, easy to use . A very good way to meet new people and exchange books with them.
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The app subrp awsm guys itZ vry useful..
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The interface is very intuitive and clutter free. Adding books is easy and quick. Must for all book lovers!!
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Book exchange was never this easy. And free app for that. Great work guys.
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With a bigger community, can become a major app for Android
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Sharing books has never been this easy. Absolutely love it!
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An application which help you socially and personally. Socially: by bringing new friends and personally: by giving what you were searching for..
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This has to reach out to billions around the world..
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Good experience & I find something new.
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Awesome app for all book lovers!
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Here is a brilliant opportunity for all those book lovers who are searching for various books for long time. Your wait is over. Download the app. Feel the joy.
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Good idea. Hoping to barter with my new found book buddies real soon...
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Unable to log in using g+ or fb...it also cannot identify quite a few barcodes...seems like not many users and so not able to fetch data of books on barter