Three apps that should exist (but don't).

Do you find yourself inventing things that already exist? I do it all the time. However, here is an app that should definitely exist but doesn't. (The other two I will have to come back with. Soon. Don't pressure me.)

1. Ring-a-Book

If you are like me and your book shelf is a hot mess that not only contains rows over rows of books but everything in the house as well (the weirder the better)*, you would understand my need for an app that would make the book I am looking for... sing. Or ring. Or make a barking sound. I don't care.

Sometimes I have to sit in front of that shelf and contemplate it for a few minutes, trying to resurrect my memory from the dead. Sometimes I remember only the title, sometimes only the author, sometimes only the colour of the cover. Pfff. Middle age, what can I tell you.

Please note the sitting frogs. I got them in London, they're made from metal. Got stopped at the border check, the officers thought they were guns. Or something.

Here's how the app is going to work:

Step 1. Download the app.

Step 2. Stick a special sticker in every book you own. They are magical stickers that somehow transmit information to the app.

Step 3. A list of all your books will appear in your phone quite suddenly. With no complications whatsoever.

Step 4. Click on a title you own and it will make a sound, calling you to get it.

Additional Idea: the book can call your name. "Adinaaaaa, I'm heeereeee... Come and get meeeee." Yeah. No. Spooky.

Cons:

1. I suppose it doesn't work for deaf people.

2. While you put in the stickers in the books you might as well order them in alphabetical order. Jeez.

* purple matrioskas, turquoise hand weight, a miniature brown wooden cannon, a personalised whisky flask with the name Csermely Geza on it, a resin orange tree, two metal sitting frogs.

Ok, I'll tell you. Csermely Geza is the nickname Gareth got from his writing team in Budapest. They thought that it would be quite funny to sign some scripts with this name and confuse the broadcaster. Then they put it on a flask that ended on my bookshelf.

Do you think the app is a good idea? Do you have the same problem? Do you even have books? Are books still a thing? Look how many questions I have for you.

If you have any comments, leave them below. I'd love to hear from you. And if you think my imaginary app is a good idea, please share. Who knows? Maybe someone will actually make it happen. And if they do, let me know.

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If you liked this article and my two metal sitting frogs on the bookshelf, you might want to read about my two favourite books I read in 2019.