📚 Tool

Book Reading Tracker & Journal

Log what you're reading, what you finished, and what you're saving for later — with a star rating and a note for each one. Set a yearly goal, browse your shelf visually, and download a shareable recap at the end of the year. Your whole shelf lives in this browser only: no account, no syncing, nothing uploaded anywhere.

Why log ratings and notes, not just titles

A bare list of titles tells you what you read. A star rating and one honest line about each book tells you what you actually liked — the pattern that's much harder to spot from memory alone once you've read fifty or a hundred books. Genre tags make that pattern visible even faster: most readers are surprised by how lopsided their "five-star shelf" is once it's actually laid out by genre instead of by memory.

A yearly goal turns "I read a lot this year" from a feeling into a number, and the shelf view gives your library a visual, satisfying home instead of a plain list — closer to standing in front of your actual bookshelf than scrolling a spreadsheet.

Frequently asked questions

What should a reading journal track besides title and author?

The details that actually help you remember a book months later: genre, a star rating, and one line about how it made you feel or a favorite quote. Dates matter too — knowing when you started and finished shows your real reading pace, not just a shelf of titles.

How is a reading tracker different from a reading speed calculator?

A reading speed calculator estimates how long one book will take based on pages and pace — it's forward-looking. A reading tracker is a log of what you've actually read: ratings, genres, notes, and finish dates over time, building a record instead of a single estimate.