Stories worth sharing✨
“Shimmy Books began with a problem I knew too well: loving books, buying too many, and running out of shelf space. All readers can relate!”
Like a lot of people, I first found community on BookTok - sharing recs, reacting to plot twists, and endlessly adding to my TBR. But I quickly realised two things:
- I couldn’t afford to keep buying new books every week.
- I had shelves full of brilliant reads I wasn’t going to pick up again.
So I started Your Book Store - a simple online marketplace where readers could buy and sell secondhand books. It wasn’t fancy, but it worked. And more importantly, it built a community of readers who believed in sharing stories, not letting them sit on shelves.
Over time, that community grew. And so did the vision.
Now, we’re Shimmy Books. A place to rethink what secondhand book-buying can be.
Shimmy is about making it easy, affordable, and actually enjoyable to find your next read. It’s about decluttering your shelf without waste, and giving books a second life in another reader’s home.
We’re building something social, conscious, and reader-led.
Thanks for being here. We hope you find the next book to love.
Jess x
Shimmy Books Founder