ReadingRate · What's new · 2026-07-03
Read a poem a day, and keep the lines
ReadingRate carries a poetry corpus of more than 92,000 lines and treats poems as reading rather than decoration. You can keep a rotation going, log a poem as read, save an individual line, and annotate a specific line rather than the whole poem — which is the unit poetry actually works in.
Available on web and iOS.
Most reading trackers are built around the book as the unit, which makes poetry unloggable: a collection sits at 'reading' for years while you dip in and out of it. Tracking the poem instead makes the record match the behaviour.
Line-level annotation follows the same logic. A note attached to a two-hundred-page novel and a note attached to one line of Byron are different kinds of note, and flattening them loses the second entirely.
The corpus is available through the AI connection too, so an assistant can fetch a poem, search by theme, or log a reading for you.
What it can't do
- The corpus is public-domain poetry. Contemporary poets under copyright are not included.
- Poems are currently scored on the same difficulty model as prose, which is the wrong instrument for verse. A poetry-specific model exists in the schema but has not been switched on.
Questions people ask
- Can I track poetry in ReadingRate?
- Yes. Poems are tracked individually rather than as whole collections: keep a rotation, log a poem as read, save a line, and annotate specific lines.