mianka

A book-swapping app for readers in Warsaw

Your next favorite book is on a shelf near you.

Your shelf
Small Hours The Long Table Field Notes Winter Letters Salt & Ink
Their shelf
Paper Moons A Year of Rain Tide The Night Ferry Orchard
The Quiet Harvest North of Tuesday

Swap the books you've finished with readers across your city. Meet at a metro station or send them locker to locker with InPost.

Not in the app stores yet

How a swap works

Five stamps from your shelf to theirs.

Every swap on Mianka follows the same short path. Nothing moves until both of you have agreed.

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1
Fill your shelf

Add the books you've finished. Put the ones you want on your wishlist so readers who have them can tell you.

Listed
2
Find one near you

Browse what readers across your city have on their shelves and send a swap request.

Found
3
Agree in chat

Settle which books each of you sends and how they travel. Accept, decline or suggest a change.

Agreed
4
Meet up or use a locker

Hand the books over at a metro station you both pick or post them locker to locker with InPost.

Handed over
5
Rate the swap

Rate each other once the books arrive. Ratings are how trust works on Mianka.

Rated

Option one

Meet at a metro station you both pick.

  • Busy, public and easy for both of you to reach.
  • Keep the plan in the chat so there is a record.
  • You see the book before anything else changes hands.

Option two

Or send it locker to locker.

  • Labels come straight from InPost. Every label is bought before any book moves.
  • You get 48 hours to drop off once the labels are bought.
  • The reader with the weaker record drops off first.
Books on readers' shelves in Warsaw, in the Mianka app

In the chat

Agree it in your own words. It stays on record.

Is your copy of North of Tuesday still free?

It is. Anything on your shelf from my wishlist?

The Quiet Harvest. Like new.

Deal. Metro or locker?

Swap request sent

Safety

Swap with people you can trust.

  1. i
    Ratings after every swap

    Both readers rate each other once the books change hands. Check them before you agree.

  2. ii
    The tick

    It goes to readers with at least 10 swaps and 4.2 stars or better. It can come and go.

  3. iii
    Block and report

    From any profile. Reports come straight to us.

  4. iv
    Your money never passes through us

    Labels come from InPost. If a swap involves cash you pay the other reader directly.

How we keep swaps safe

Questions

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Got a shelf of finished books? Give a book a second reader.

Not in the app stores yet