What do you listen to while you read?
Hi everyone, Oleks here, maker of BookTuning.
On Friday, Nov 6 we launch the BookTuning Reading Room: a free reading timer in your browser. You light a candle, read in sprints of 15 to 60 minutes (or anything from 5 to 120), and your book's Spotify playlist plays while you read and pauses for breaks. There are rain, fireplace and night-wind soundscapes, 20 pixel-art rooms, and a library card that tracks your pages and reading minutes. No account needed.
Before launch day, I'd love to know how you read:
What do you listen to while reading: a playlist that matches the book, ambient sound, or silence?
How long do you usually read in one sitting?
What would make a reading timer worth opening again tomorrow night?
Friday is also Hypership Day, so if you leave a feature request on the launch, I'll try to build and ship the small ones the same day.
Try it: https://booktun.ing/reading-room?src=producthunt&utm_source=producthunt&utm_medium=forum
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I read in the evening, mostly to wind down before sleep. During the day I'm reading news, studies and analysis for work, so at night it's usually fiction, something that switches my head off. Quiet music in the background is fine. Anywhere from 20 to 60 minutes, until I get sleepy. What would make me open it again: a bedtime mode where the music fades out on its own and the timer doesn't ask me to start another sprint.