Do you want to read Benazir Bhutto’s Daughter of the East, or Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, or Anne Enright’s Man Booker-winning The Gathering? Or reread Amar Chitra Katha or Agatha Christie? Then this portal with over 8,000 titles will have it. Still, it is like a Russian roulette, if you are lucky, your book might be there. If you want Amitav Ghosh or Manil Suri, you might want to go back to the British Library or even the Eloor Lending Library.

The portal, which was launched in October last year and has 40-odd members in the NCR, is run by 31-year-old Nidhi Verma. Her weekends, she says, are spent scanning book reviews to make an elaborate list of bestsellers. Then she is off to the shops for her weekly purchase. “I don’t want to miss out on any book that might be of interest to the members,” she says.

Verma, along with her mother-in-law Manjula Sharma, thought of starting the portal last year when she found a dip in the number of members who visited Ram Gopal Sharma and Son, the library owned by her family at Connaught Place. “Many of them have moved out of Central Delhi and find it cumbersome to come to CP to issue a book,” she says.