Bookcases you name and dress yourself
Each bookcase has four shelves and a name of your choosing: one for the classics, one for the books you'll never lend, one for the ones you gave up on. Pick the wood, the panel behind the books and the shape of the top, then stand a candle or a skull between the spines.
Adding a book takes a moment. Type its title, or scan the barcode on the back.
Bind each book the way you picture it
Cloth, leather, velvet or marbled paper, stamped in gilt, silver or copper, with a frame, an emblem and the title set in a face that suits it. Or put a photo of your own on the front.
- Wuthering Heights
- Dracula
- The Secret Garden
- Dream journal
- Summer reading
Write as much or as little as you like
A single star and a line is as welcome as pages of passages, photos and notes. There are no templates to fill in and nobody counting your words.
Copy out a passage with where you found it, mark it in one of five colors and add a thought of your own. Rate in half stars, note what you want to look into, and choose the paper, lines and border for a whole book or a single page.
Finished, at last
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
Read this one twice on the train home.
Let the wheel choose your next book
Keep a to-read list and a wishlist. When the pile gets tall, spin the wheel and read whatever it lands on. Every book on it has the same chance.
Challenges that end in dragons
Thirteen challenges come with Solstice, and each leads to a pet or an object you can't have any other way. Set challenges of your own too, with whatever reward you promise yourself.
- KindlingFinish a book. Any book at all.Earns the black cat
- Letting goPut down a book you are not enjoying. Life is short and the shelves are long.Earns the bat
- Trust the wheelLet the wheel choose your next read, then finish it.Earns the tarot cards
- Keeper of wordsCopy ten passages you want to remember into your pages.Earns the quill and ink
- Dragon's hoardFinish twenty books. Something small and scaly has been watching.Earns the baby dragon
A community, if you want one
Readers here share their bookcases, leave hearts and replies, and talk about books on a discussion board where spoilers stay hidden until someone asks to see them. You're welcome to join, but you never have to. Your library works just the same without it.
Joining changes nothing about who sees what. Your bookcases, books and pages stay private, and they're only seen if you choose to share them, with members or with anyone who has the link. Even in a book you share, any page can stay yours alone.
Every bookcase, book and page starts at Only me.
Bring your Goodreads library
Export your books from Goodreads and bring them over. Choose which shelves come and where each one goes, and whether your ratings, dates, reviews and private notes come with them.