ReadingRate · What's new · 2026-01-27
A daily connection between things you've read
Once a day ReadingRate finds passages from different parts of your reading that circle the same idea — a line you saved a fortnight ago, a page from the book you are in now, a poem you read last week — names the theme they share, and asks you a single question about it. What you write is saved to your reading journal. It appears on the web dashboard and is part of membership.
Available on web.
The value is in the pairing rather than the prompt. Two passages saved a month apart, from books with nothing to do with each other, are exactly what a reading life produces constantly and never shows you.
Connections drawn from a book you are still reading are capped at the page you have reached, so the day's pairing cannot hand you a later chapter.
It stays quiet when it has nothing to say. Fewer than two things to work from, or fewer than two decent matches, and no card appears that day — which is better than a manufactured connection.
What it can't do
- Web only. There is no iOS version, though an assistant connected over MCP can fetch the day's connection.
- Membership only.
- It works from passages you saved recently. A fortnight without saving anything leaves it nothing to connect.
- One a day. Skipping it does not produce another.
- Matches are made on similarity of meaning, so two passages occasionally share a vocabulary rather than an idea, and the result is a coincidence dressed as an insight.
Questions people ask
- Does ReadingRate connect ideas across books automatically?
- Yes. Once a day it pairs passages from different books and poems in your own reading that circle the same idea, names the theme, and asks a question about it. Your answer is saved to your journal.