ReadingRate · What's new · 2026-07-07

Turn your Goodreads export into a shareable shelf

Upload a Goodreads CSV export and ReadingRate turns it into a page you can share: your books as a timeline of covers in the order you read them, the span of years they cover, the totals for books and pages, and how many you gave five stars. The shelf is a frozen snapshot with its own link — it stays exactly as it was when you saved it — and anyone can open it without an account.

Available on web.

A Goodreads export is a CSV with a column called Exclusive Shelf. It contains a decade of someone's reading and is completely unreadable. The same rows drawn as a timeline are the opposite: you can see the year you read four hundred pages a week and the year you read nothing.

The snapshot is frozen on purpose. A link you sent someone last month should still show what you sent them, not a version that has quietly moved on.

You can also have the books placed on the atlas of literature — Frye's wheel of comedy, romance, tragedy and irony — which turns a list into a map of the kinds of story you go back to.

A link to a shelf carries a preview card: the headline count, the years, and six of your covers with the highest-rated leading.

What it can't do

  • Goodreads CSV only. There is no shelf import from StoryGraph, Kindle or LibraryThing.
  • Saving a shelf and getting its link needs a free account. You can build and look at one without signing up, but not keep it.
  • Mapping the shelf onto the atlas needs an account, and free accounts get twenty books placed.
  • Snapshots cannot be edited or renamed. Reading more books means exporting again and saving a new shelf; you can keep fifty.
  • It shows what Goodreads recorded. Books you read but never logged there will not be on it, and neither will the ones you logged wrongly.
  • This is unrelated to scanning a physical bookshelf from a photograph, which is a separate feature.

Questions people ask

Can I share my Goodreads history as a page?
Yes. Upload your Goodreads CSV export to ReadingRate and it becomes a public page showing your books as a cover timeline, with the years, totals and five-star count. Saving it and getting the link needs a free account.
Does my shared shelf update when I read more books?
No, and deliberately. A shelf is a frozen snapshot, so a link you shared keeps showing what you shared. Reading more means saving a new shelf.

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