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Reading guides
Short, practical guides to everything around the book: keeping track of where you are, remembering what you read, finding more time to read, and keeping your library in order.
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Each one takes a few minutes to read and works with a notebook as well as with an app.
Tracking & Goals
Knowing where you are, and where you’d like to get to.
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Tracking & Goals
How to track your reading progress
Pages, percentages or time: how to choose, when to write it down, and what a good record lets you see.
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Tracking & Goals
How to set a reading goal
Books a year or hours a week: how to pick a goal that fits your life, and what to do when you fall behind.
Remembering
Keeping hold of what you read, long after the last page.
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Remembering
How to remember what you read
Why books fade, what to write down while you read, and a few minutes of recall a week that keep the ideas within reach.
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Remembering
How to take notes while reading
What’s worth writing down, where to keep it, and how to take notes without breaking the spell of the book.
Habits
Making room for reading, and choosing what comes next.
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Habits
How to read more books
Small, steady changes that add up: where the time comes from, what to read, and when to put a book down.
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Habits
How to manage your TBR list
Treat the pile as a menu, not a debt: a short queue of what’s next, and calm about the rest.
Your library
Your books and their history, wherever you keep them.
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Your library
How to export your Goodreads library
Download your shelves, ratings and reviews as a file, check what made it across, and bring it somewhere new.
Tools
Work out the numbers
Free calculators that go with the guides. Nothing to install and no account needed.
All reading toolsTime left in your book, and a likely finish date.
How many pages a day to finish by a date.
What a yearly goal means per week and per day.
Your page as a percentage, and what’s left.
Track, capture and remember your books, on iPhone.
Free, through Apple’s TestFlight app. Your library carries over to the App Store release.
ReadList is on iPhone first. Leave your email and we’ll tell you the day it’s ready for Android.