How it works
A simple, honest way to pass a book to someone nearby in Pune & PCMC.
Post your book
Add a title, a couple of photos, and your locality — give it away free, sell it, or offer it for a swap. Takes about a minute, no account to create.
Verify your email
We send a one-click link to confirm it's really you before the listing goes live. Keeps listings genuine.
Someone finds it nearby
Readers in your locality browse or search by title/author, filter by free, for sale or open to swaps, and spot your book on the shelf.
Connect directly
When someone's interested, we send one email connecting you both — reply to arrange the handover, however suits you both.
More ways to find your next book
Swap instead of selling
Tick "open to swaps" when you post, and say what you'd like in return — a genre, an author or a title, like "thrillers, Murakami". Readers can filter for swap-friendly books and see what you're after, and if another swapper's book is a match, we'll email you both to connect.
Can't find a book? Get an alert
Search for it, and if nobody's listed it yet, leave your email. We'll send you one email the moment someone nearby posts it — nothing else.
Why no accounts, and how we stop spam
No login means less friction for real readers — but it also means we lean on a few quiet, automatic safeguards instead of a sign-up wall:
Email verification
Every listing needs a clicked magic link before it's visible. Filters out typos and throwaway spam in one step, at zero effort for real posters.
Community reporting
Anyone can flag a listing. Three reports auto-hides it pending a manual look.
Posters confirm when a book's gone
From the second person who expresses interest onward, the connection email lets the poster flag the book as already gone in one click — takes the listing down right away.
Have a book to pass on?
Someone nearby is probably looking for it.
Post a BookSomething not working, or an idea for the site? Write to hello@bookhop.exchange