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Recommendations with reasons, book-club energy, and the thread that adds twelve titles to your list.

Readers trust readers. Ask Peachy for recommendation threads and book-club talk in your genres, and the 'I stayed up until 2am finishing this' posts find you. Your to-read pile will grow past reason, and you'll be glad.

Berkeley packs a remarkable number of scenes into a few square miles. Tell Peachy you're looking in Berkeley and posts from people nearby surface for you, whether they're up in the hills, down by the marina, or a few blocks off Shattuck. The rest of the East Bay is one "a little farther" away.

Say it in your own words

You describe what you’re looking for the way you’d tell a friend, and your Feed shows the posts from your friends, mutuals and communities that match.

“Show me book recommendations and what people are reading.”

“Tell me when a book club opens up near Berkeley.”

“Surface sci-fi and literary fiction. I judge books by their first sentence.”

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    Sign up with your phone number. Peachy is a chat app: your people, your group chats and your communities.

  2. Filter it, if you like

    Your Feed starts as everything, newest first. Turn on a paragraph filter, a few plain words like the examples above, place included, and only matching posts show. Turn it off any time.

  3. See what matters to you

    Your Feed shows posts from your friends, mutuals and communities: all of them, or only the ones that match your paragraph. Public posts from everyone else stay under Public, and your private chats are never part of it.

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