ReadingRate · What's new · 2026-10-30
Share a book club meeting with one link
A book club read in ReadingRate is now a meeting. In the iPhone app you set the day, the time and who you're meeting for a book, and share the meeting as one link. Anyone who opens the link sees the book, the day and how many are reading; anyone who joins gets the book on their shelf with the date, and sees the others' first names and how far each has read. The earlier club pages, with their invite codes, schedules and discussion threads, were retired on 30 October 2026.
Available on web and iOS.
Most book clubs already exist somewhere else: a group chat, a living room, a pub. What they lack is not a forum but a shared sense of who has got how far before the day. A link does that without asking anyone to move their club.
On the day, the iPhone app's Tonight screen gathers the lines you saved and your own questions for the meeting. Reminders arrive over the three nights before it.
The other members' own questions stay hidden until you have finished the book, or until the day itself.
What it can't do
- Setting up a meeting, Tonight and the reminders are in the iPhone app. On the website you can open a meeting link and join it, but not create one.
- There is no discussion thread, no voting on the next book and no schedule paced for the group. Those went with the old club pages.
- Joining needs a free account.
- If the person who set the meeting leaves it, the meeting closes for everyone.
- A meeting is for one book and one day. There is no standing club that carries on to the next book.
Questions people ask
- Does ReadingRate have book clubs?
- It has book club meetings. In the iPhone app you set the day, the time and who you're meeting for a book and share one link; everyone who joins sees who is reading and how far each has read. The earlier multi-reader club pages were retired in October 2026.
- How do I invite people to a book club on ReadingRate?
- Set the meeting in the iPhone app and share its link. Anyone can open it; joining needs a free account and puts the book on their shelf with the date.
- Are book club discussions spoiler-safe?
- There are no discussion threads any more. The questions other members wrote for the meeting stay hidden until you have finished the book or the day arrives.