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Log a book, then log where you stopped.

Search by title, author or ISBN, pick the edition you own, and put it on a list: currently reading, read, or one you make yourself. After a sitting, note the page you reached. Starting halfway through? Set the page you started from.

Search results for Kazuo Ishiguro, listing four of his books and his author page — Search by title, author or ISBN.

The page for Klara and the Sun, with its genres, list and rating — Each book, with your list and your rating.

Reading lists: currently reading, read, wishlist, next to read, backlog and a custom book club list — The built-in lists, and any you add.

Every session you log turns into something you can look at.

A calendar of the books you finished, pages read over time, how you rate, which genres you return to, and your longest and fastest reads. Wikidata fills in where your authors come from and who they are. Compare any of it with a friend.

Finished books for 2026, shown as covers grouped by month — Finished books, month by month.

A world map shading the 15 countries your authors come from — Where your authors come from.

A breakdown of authors read: non-binary, trans woman, female and male — Who writes what you read.

A line chart of pages read per day over the last 30 days — Pages read per day.

Your reading stats next to a friend's: books read, pages read and pages per day — Your numbers next to a friend's.

Keep the passage, the page, and what you thought of it.

Save the lines that stayed with you, with the page number and a note of your own. Rank your books into tier lists, and put your favorites in order.

Saved quotes from Piranesi, The Remains of the Day and Circe, each with its page number and a note — Passages with their page and your note.

A tier list of all-time favorites, with book covers ranked from S to C — A tier list of all-time favorites.

Top favorites ranked first, second and third: Piranesi, The Remains of the Day and Circe — Your favorites, in order.

Follow the people whose taste you trust.

What they finish, log and quote shows up in a calm feed, with likes and comments. Mention a book or a friend in a post. Start a challenge to race each other to a page count, or share a goal.

Following needs the other person's consent, and notifications only tell you what you asked to hear.

Writing a post that mentions a friend, above a post that mentions a book — Mention a book or a friend.

A four-person race to 600 pages, with each reader's progress and a chart — Four friends racing to 600 pages.

Challenges: an invite to accept or decline, a page race and a shared goal — Invites, races and shared goals.

Choose an accent color and a background, in light or dark.

Any color you like runs through your library. The home screen can show a photo, any book cover, or whatever you're reading right now. Both themes are warm: cream paper in the light, soft ink after dark.

The home screen with a teal accent, over the cover of The Overstory — A teal accent, over the cover being read.

The home screen in the light theme — The same screen, light and dark.

The home screen in the dark theme — The same screen, light and dark.

Bring your Goodreads library with you.

Export your library from Goodreads as a CSV file and import it in one step. Your lists, ratings and read dates come along.

Start with the book you're reading now.

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