ReadingRate · What's new · 2026-08-12
See which subjects you're actually well read in
ReadingRate maps your finished books onto subjects and gives each one a mastery stage, so instead of a list of titles you get a picture of where you've read deeply and where you've only dabbled. Import a Goodreads library and the whole history is enriched and mapped at once.
Available on web and iOS.
A finished-books list records that reading happened. It has no notion of what those books were about or how they relate, so twelve books on ancient philosophy and twenty science fiction novels look like the same thing: rows.
Serious reading narrows over time the way a degree does — a general survey, then a period, then something quite specific — and that shape is invisible from the inside because it happens across years.
What it can't do
- It only knows the books you logged. An unrecorded history cannot be analysed.
- It knows you read a book, not that you understood it. Twenty skimmed books outrank five studied ones.
- A mastery stage is a reading-breadth heuristic, not a qualification, and says nothing about study or work in a field.
- Domain placement depends on catalogue metadata, so obscure or self-published titles may be placed poorly.
Questions people ask
- What does my reading history say about me?
- Mapped onto subjects, it shows where you've read deeply enough to know something and where you've only dabbled — which a dated list of titles cannot.
- Can I import my Goodreads library?
- Yes. A CSV export brings across your books, ratings and read dates, and every book is then enriched with page and word counts, difficulty scores and genre data Goodreads doesn't carry.