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title: About Your Book Nest
Metadescription: I'm Dan Edwards, the software engineer behind Your Book Nest. I built it to give small community libraries a simple way to lend books without spreadsheets or barcode scanners.
author: Dan Edwards
author_role: Founder
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# About Your Book Nest

Simple cloud library software for churches, mosques, and community groups - track books, loans, and patrons. Free demo, no sign-up.

## About me

I'm Dan Edwards, a software engineer in Aberdeen, Scotland.

You can find out more about me on my [personal homepage.](https://danedwardsdeveloper.com/ "Portfolio for Dan Edwards, software engineer")

## Why I made Your Book Nest

A lot of small community libraries run on goodwill and a spreadsheet. Churches, mosques, study groups and community centres lend out books, CDs and DVDs, and a volunteer keeps track of who has what on a piece of paper or in their head.

When I looked into the existing library software, I realised most of it is built for big institutions - far too expensive and far too complicated for a library run by a handful of volunteers who know every patron by name.

I made Your Book Nest to be the opposite of that. It's web-based and simple to use - no barcode scanners, no training, no features you'll never touch. You add your books, lend them out, and see who has what and when it's due back.

[See all features.](/articles/features "Features of Your Book Nest")

## Contact

Your Book Nest is a new service and I'm actively working to improve it based on user feedback.

If you have questions, suggestions, or run into any issues, please email me at [danedwardscreative@gmail.com](mailto:danedwardscreative@gmail.com) and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.