Who is this for?
You have hundreds of books. Maybe thousands. You know what you have — roughly. LumiLexicon turns your shelves into a searchable collection with cover images, condition notes, and real market values.
One photo of a shelf. Every spine identified, every edition cataloged.
You buy at estate sales, library sales, and thrift stores. You need to know what a book is worth before you buy it, and you need to list it fast once you get home. LumiLexicon handles both.
Five ways in — Quick Snap works fastest when you’re standing in a garage sale.
Someone walks in with a box of books. You need to figure out what’s worth buying and what to offer. LumiLexicon gives you fast identification, market-based pricing, and a way to track every acquisition through to sale.
The back office — costs, revenue, and sell-through for every acquisition lot.
See it in motion
Quick Snap
No barcode required. Snap the cover and Claude vision reads the title and author, sets a value range from real sold comps, and builds a full catalog record — blurb, tags, edition, and market data — in one pass. Here, a 1932 first edition of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, start to finish.
Capture
Snap a cover, photograph a whole shelf, scan a barcode, or drop photos you already have. Every path lands at the same rich metadata review — ranked by what works for the book, not what looks prettiest in a grid.
Computer vision
One photo of a full shelf is detected spine-by-spine, the text is read off each one, and Claude identifies the title, author, and edition — including pre-ISBN books a barcode scanner can’t touch.
The record
Vision reads covers, title pages, and copyright pages to fill in edition, publisher, and printing. Then real comps from AbeBooks and eBay set an honest value range, and platform-specific listings write themselves.
Ask Lumi
Semantic search over your whole catalog, in plain language. Ask which books haven’t been valued, what your oldest editions are, or how value breaks down — and Lumi answers with real numbers and charts.
Back of house
Revenue, fees, shipping, and cost basis roll up into a live P&L — sell-through by lot, AI spend per book, the whole operation by the week. Not selling? The same valuations tell you what your shelves are worth, for insurance, estate planning, or just knowing.
Reading room
A gallery built for browsing, not spreadsheets. Flip through covers, surface a featured volume, and read the full record of anything on your shelf — sellers and collectors alike.
Whether you’re selling rare books or organizing a personal library, every volume starts here.