
We all have used carbon.now.sh, ray.so or its equivalent at one time or the other for beautifying and sharing code snippets.
When I started to build an app called snipreads to share snippets and excerpts, my idea was more on the lines of getting my non-reader friends to actual atleast read a few of the excerpts (and ideally in the process get sold on reading the book). I was planning on a simple feature to share the snippet as is with a screenshot, twitter (should I say X?) style.
I remember when someone drew the parallel with ray.so, that it clicked. I thought what if apart from the ability to post snippets on snipreads, if any one had the option to beautify and share the snippets. Of course, starting out there would be some restrictions, but I could build on it going forward.
So, I have setup a version on vercel and am working on the first version of snipreads. Let me know what you think.
You can check out the sneak preview at https://snipreads.vercel.app
That's a cool idea. Is there a way to share a quote easily, or I must type it out? One idea that I have is it would be useful if it would scrape popular quotes from various sites and this way it might be able to autocomplete your sentence (but first you have to provide the book's name).
Yes I have considered that problem and am planning to add OCR so anyone can snap an image from a book and extract snippets from it.
Having a repo of popular quotes will also be a great start. Select book is part of the posting snippet process.