Turn Digital Books into Personal Gifts
Gift books with personal dedications, read together with friends, and connect with your favorite authors.
You're seen. You're loved. You have a home here.
Gift books with personal dedications, read together with friends, and connect with your favorite authors.
You're seen. You're loved. You have a home here.
Watch the moment a personal dedication transforms a digital book into a meaningful gift.
The author goes live on a stage born from the book. Readers gather, watch and chat, and each one receives a personal signed dedication.
Every campfire happens inside a scene created for that book, and the author appears live, on video, at its heart.
While the author signs for each reader, everyone watches the line move until your name is called.
A private video room where the author greets you by name and writes a dedication that lives in your book forever.
Don't let the joy of reading fade away.
Where I come from, there's a bench left in memory of a friend. Someone set a few books beside it, and something quiet happened: strangers who sat down to read became neighbors. People felt seen, just by being there. PEN Q is that bench, made digital. Each book is a gift passed from hand to hand, and a crowd of strangers becomes a tribe.
Read the full story โReaders and authors who believe in PEN Q, in their own words.
The most unique thing is that the platform creates a direct connection and a real community, something that barely exists in the tough world of authors, especially for an independent one.
Eliel LiliAuthorEveryone profits from our book except us, who poured our souls into writing it. I believe the power should go back to authors, because without us none of this would exist.
AidanAuthorPEN Q is a place that hugs you in a lot of different ways.
MiloshReaderA dedication that became a bridge. Books that unite people instead of just being sold.
PaulReaderThe chance to bring together, in one place, exciting technology and the best of our humanity.
A regular book is a gift, but a book with a dedication is a keepsake for life.
UriReaderSee the difference PEN Q makes in your reading life.
Every book arrives from a person.
Every book carries a heartfelt message that makes it uniquely yours.
Talk about the book with friends while you read it together.
Join an enthusiastic community of readers and authors.
A QR code links a printed book to its dedications, its conversations, and the author who wrote it.
Leave a book you no longer need, and someone else will continue the journey.
Three steps, and someone receives a book from you with a personal dedication.
Download the app for free and step into the tribe.
Choose a book, add a dedication only you could write, and send it hand to hand.
Turn the pages side by side, meet the author inside the book, and watch it gather love as it passes on.
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When you gift a book through PEN Q, you're not just sharing a story. You're becoming the kind of person who notices, who remembers, who shows up. The friend whose name people remember decades later when they reread that book.
Why one reader decided to change digital books forever.
Rony Milanez loves books, but digital books always felt cold to him. No name inside, no dedication, no one who gave it. One day he sent his father a book with a short digital dedication, and his father's reaction surprised him with how strong it was. That's when he understood that a book shouldn't lose its soul just because it lives on a screen.
PEN Q grew out of that frustration: the app Rony looked for and couldn't find. He founded it with no coding background, and it went live on Google Play in 2026 with one simple aim: to bring the warmth of a personal gift back to digital reading. Every book on PEN Q comes with a personal dedication, so whoever receives it knows someone was thinking of them.
As PEN Q grew, a community grew around it. Talking with readers and authors, Rony kept hearing the same thing: people want a book to connect them. On PEN Q, a book always comes from someone. It arrives with a personal note, a shared memory, a person who thought of you. You can give books to friends, join conversations about them, and scan a QR code that links a printed book to the digital world.
Seth Godin and Donald Miller shaped Rony's path and helped him sharpen what he wants to say. But what shaped his belief most was life itself: the bench and little library in memory of a friend who passed away, and working closely with people on the autism spectrum. Both taught him how much it matters to feel truly seen. Every dedication written on PEN Q comes from that place.
PEN Q gives readers, authors, and everyone who loves giving books a way back to the joy of reading together. When you invite someone into a book with a few words from the heart, something starts moving between people. Join PEN Q, because books are meant to pass from hand to hand and bring people closer.
Where PEN Q's heart began.
Yotam was my friend. A special person who loved unconditionally.
When we lost him, his friends built a bench in his memory in the kibbutz, with Power Rangers drawings, the ones he loved so much. Then someone set up a small library beside it, and people began sitting on the bench to read.
That bench changed something in me. I watched how a simple object (a place to sit, a few books left behind) became a gathering point. Strangers became neighbors. Stories moved from hand to hand. People felt seen, just by sitting there together.
That's the moment PEN Q was born. I wanted to build a digital version of Yotam's bench, a place where books don't just sit on a shelf, but travel between people, carrying warmth and meaning with them. A place where giving a book is an act of love, and receiving one makes you feel like someone truly thought of you.
This bench is for him. And PEN Q is for everyone who believes that books are meant to connect us.
A book you no longer need doesn't have to sit on a shelf.
Leave it here, and someone else will continue the journey.
Download PEN Q and rediscover the joy of reading.
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