Reading Journal & Book Tracker App, Visual Bookshelf, Reading Log (Digital Download)

Reading Journal & Book Tracker Hub — a browser app with a visual bookshelf that fills with a coloured spine every time you finish a book.

Reading apps want a monthly fee and your reading history on their server. Printable reading trackers make you handwrite the same TBR list four times a year and do your own maths. This is the third option: a real app — 34 connected pages, live stats, 5 printable reports — that you buy once, open in any browser, and that never sends a single byte anywhere.

📚 THE BOOKSHELF (the bit no PDF can do)
✔ Every finished book becomes a spine on a wooden shelf — it fills up as your year does
✔ Spine height and width follow the REAL page count: a 900-page tome towers over a novella
✔ Colour the shelf by genre, rating, mood or format — switch any time
✔ Ghost spines show exactly how many books still stand between you and your goal
✔ Tap a spine for its card: rating, dates, page count, your one-line verdict
✔ Print the whole shelf as a poster

📖 YOUR WHOLE LIBRARY, PROPERLY
✔ Full record per book: series + number, edition, ISBN, translator, publisher, format, source
✔ TBR list ranked Now / Soon / Someday, with how long each book has been waiting
✔ Currently Reading with progress bars, +10 / +25 page buttons and a session timer
✔ DNF shelf with the % you reached and why you stopped — not finishing is a skill
✔ Series tracker with completion bars, a GAP DETECTOR and the exact next book to read
✔ Author page: books read, pages, average rating, backlist remaining
✔ Home library catalogue (room, shelf, condition, signed, first edition, value)
✔ Lending tracker + library hold queue with overdue flags

⏱ SESSIONS, STREAKS & YOUR REAL READING SPEED
✔ Log a sitting — or hit the built-in timer — and the app does the rest
✔ GitHub-style heatmap of every day you read, for the whole year
✔ Streaks with a REST-DAY ALLOWANCE so one busy day can't erase three months
✔ Your true pages-per-hour, by format, with a trend line
✔ "How long will this take me?" estimator for any page count
✔ Honest finish-date prediction for the book in your hand

✍️ THE JOURNAL PART
✔ Long-form review per book with 5 guided reflection prompts
✔ One-line verdict that follows the book everywhere it appears
✔ Searchable Quotes Vault with page numbers, speakers and a printable commonplace page
✔ Annotation log with YOUR tab-colour key finally written down (pink = swoon, blue = worldbuilding…)
✔ Character, world, lore and plot-thread notes for the series you can't keep straight
✔ Prediction log — call the twist, then mark yourself right or wrong

⭐ RATINGS THAT SAY SOMETHING
✔ Seven axes — plot, characters, writing, pacing, world, ending, overall — with half stars
✔ Weight the axes yourself; the composite score follows
✔ 0–5 spice meter 🌶 with distribution and a filter on every shelf
✔ 16 moods and a mood wheel · slow / medium / fast pace vs rating
✔ 40-TROPE LEADERBOARD scored against your own ratings — finally know which tropes you actually love
✔ Content warnings with graphic / moderate / minor severity + a personal "hard no" list that flags your TBR

📊 STATS WITHOUT A SPREADSHEET
✔ Twelve live charts: books and pages a month, genres, formats, rating by genre, publication decade, book lengths
✔ Records table: longest, shortest, fastest, slowest, highest and lowest rated
✔ Balance & diversity targets: authors, countries, translations, debuts, non-fiction
✔ Monthly recap with month-over-month arrows
✔ Printable YEAR IN BOOKS wrapped page — totals, superlatives, every book in order

🎯 GOALS, BINGO & WHAT TO READ NEXT
✔ Books, pages, hours and per-month targets with live pace bars
✔ Tells you the exact books-per-week and pages-per-day that get you back on track
✔ 5×5 READING BINGO with a free centre square, 25 editable prompts, automatic line / four-corner / blackout detection
✔ 26-prompt challenge list · custom challenge builder · book-buying ban counter
✔ TBR roulette, mood-and-page-budget matcher, and a recommender built from your own five-star history

☕ TOGETHER & THE MONEY BIT
✔ Book club: meetings, hosts, attendance, group rating vs yours, 20 discussion questions, printable host kit
✔ Buddy reads with checkpoints and a who's-ahead badge
✔ Book budget: purchase log, cost per book, cost per reading HOUR, subscription cost-per-use
✔ Library savings counter — what borrowing actually saved you
✔ Wishlist with sale watch and a printable gift list for December

📗 FREE EXCEL VERSION INCLUDED
✔ 28 tabs, 1,900+ working formulas — Book Log, Session Log, Goals, Dashboard, Genre & Format, Ratings, Records, Year in Books and more
✔ Recalculated end to end before it shipped: no #REF!, no #VALUE!, no #DIV/0!
✔ Opens in Excel, LibreOffice, Numbers or Google Sheets

🔄 COMING FROM GOODREADS OR STORYGRAPH?
✔ Paste your CSV export straight in — titles, authors, page counts, ratings, dates and shelves all come across
✔ Export your whole library back out to CSV any time. Your data is never trapped.

🔒 YOURS, PRIVATELY, FOREVER
✔ No account. No subscription. No internet needed after download.
✔ Everything lives in your own browser on your own computer
✔ One-file JSON backup and restore — your reading history outlives any app, including this one
✔ Works on Windows, Mac, iPad, phone — anything with a browser
✔ Not year-locked: set the tracking year to 2027 or any year after and it just works

📦 WHAT YOU GET (instant download)
1. Reading Journal & Book Tracker Hub (Web).html — the app, 34 pages, 200 features
2. Reading Journal & Book Tracker Hub (Excel).xlsx — the free spreadsheet companion, 28 tabs
3. Quick Start Guide.pdf — 6 pages, and you'll only need the first two

Loaded with a full sample reading year so nothing looks empty while you learn it — one button clears it when you're ready for your own shelf.

⚠️ This is a digital download. Nothing is posted. Because files are delivered instantly, all sales are final — but message me if anything doesn't work and I'll sort it out.

Happy reading. May your shelf fill faster than your TBR.