ReadingRate · What's new · 2026-11-05
Log a night of reading on a page tape
Logging a night of reading is now one tape and one screen. Slide the tape of pages to where you stopped, or tap the number and type it. If nothing is logged yet today you can say "It was last night" and the night is counted on the day it belongs to. The screen that follows draws the book as a constellation with tonight's star added and the nights still to go at your pace, and has a box for your thoughts under the last thing you wrote about the book.
Available on web and iOS.
The tape starts one page after your last log and carries marks at the halfway point, at three quarters and at the length of your usual night. On the iPhone you feel a tick on every page, a firmer one every ten and a stronger one at your usual night.
After the log one line tells you where you stand: halfway, three quarters through, your biggest night of this book, the first night, or how many nights from the end.
The thoughts box takes typing or speech. You can add a passage as printed with its page, and link another book the night brought to mind; the Journal shows the linked books under that night.
On the website the box goes further. A title from your library is noticed as you type it and can be linked with a tap, and the names of characters you have met by tonight's page are marked: tap one for the name, the role and where they first appear.
What it can't do
- Linking a book as you type it and the character names are on the website only. The iPhone has them built but not in the App Store release that is live today.
- Speaking your thoughts on the website uses the browser's own speech recognition, so there is no Speak button in Firefox, and it listens in English or Russian.
- The nights to go are pages left divided by your average night on this book. The constellation draws at most twelve of them.
- Character names need the book's cast in ReadingRate, from your own uploaded copy or from the catalogue. Many books have none.
- Nothing is linked without your tap. The matching is plain text against your library, with no AI involved.
Questions people ask
- Can I log reading I did last night?
- Yes. If nothing is logged for today, the log offers "It was last night" and saves the night under yesterday's date, so a session that ran past midnight counts where it belongs.
- Do I have to use the tape?
- No. Tap the page number and type it. You can also switch the tape from pages to percent when the book's length is known.