ReadingRate · What's new · 2026-01-12

Four questions when you finish a book

When you mark a book finished, ReadingRate asks you four questions. With AI features on they are written for that book and for you, from the passages you kept and the notes you logged while reading, with a thread to another book you have finished where one is there to pull. Your answers are saved as a journal entry. On the website the finish now starts with stars and one line of your own, the questions open at once, and it ends with the book in your words: your notes in page order, then each question with your answer.

Available on web and iOS.

A star rating records that you finished. It does not make you think about what you finished, and the gap between those two things is most of the reason people cannot remember books they have read.

The written questions are deliberately not literary criticism. The rule behind them is that the book is the occasion and your thinking is the subject.

On the website nobody waits and nobody is left out. Four plain questions are on screen the moment you finish, and questions written from your notes take their place if they arrive before you start typing. For a written question, the night it comes from is lit on the book's constellation and your note from that night is shown whole.

Questions are usually ready before you finish: they are prepared once your pace says the book is about to end. A book finished somewhere else, through an assistant for instance, gets the same celebration the next time you open the iPhone app.