ReadingRate · What's new · 2026-10-06
See a portrait of your reading
Once you have finished three books, the dashboard shows a portrait of your reading built from them. It opens with one sentence about your shelf and every finished book as a line, taller for a harder book. Under it are where the difficulty in your reading comes from, how hard you read, a map of where your writers were born, who you read, when they wrote, and a calendar of the days your reading load fell on. Choose any part of a figure and the books behind it are listed.
Available on web and iOS.
Most reading statistics count: books, pages, days. A portrait describes. It can tell you that half of what you have finished lately was written after a certain year, or which of the nine difficulty measures your books score highest on.
Every figure answers the question it raises. Pick a country on the map, a bar of an era, or the hardest books, and those books appear under the card and are picked out on the other figures.
On Reader the portrait has two more parts: your map of stories, which places each finished story on Northrop Frye's wheel, and your domains drawn as a rose, one petal for each.
What it can't do
- It needs three finished books, and it is built from finished books only.
- The map of stories and the domain rose are part of Reader. On a free account they show blurred.
- The map plots only writers whose birthplace the catalogue knows, and counts a book under its first author.
- The load calendar covers the last six months of logged days.
- On the iPhone the map of writers has region buttons but does not zoom or pan.
- Lines comparing you with other readers are built but do not show yet; too few readers have opted in.
Questions people ask
- What does ReadingRate show me about my reading?
- Beyond pace and days, a portrait of your finished books: how hard they are and why, where and when their writers lived, who you read, and when your heaviest reading fell. It appears once you have finished three books.