Launched this week
BookOwl: Reading Tracker
A reading tracker that actually gets out of your way
24 followers
A reading tracker that actually gets out of your way
24 followers
BookOwl is a free reading tracker for iOS and web. Import from Goodreads, StoryGraph, or Audible. Barcode scanning, half-star ratings, custom shelves, Year in Review, series tracking, and a Reading Autobiography that captures your identity as a reader. No ads.
Love the design. How are you sourcing your book data?
@dolson Thank you! And great question. There are 2 primary ways: 1) Open Library offers data dumps that anyone can use with public book metadata. I use that, and then I cross-enrich the metadata with other services like Hardcover, ISBNdb and Google Books. 2) Users of BookOwl contribute to the overall book database - new books are added to our Book Database, enriched (as needed) by our services and then become available to anyone else reading that book.
I track a lot of things — habits, goals, work streaks — but somehow never my reading. The closest I got was a reading diary in elementary school. The idea of seeing how my taste changes over time might finally get me started. Does it work well for someone who reads in bursts rather than consistently?
@klara_minarikova Yes! That's how I tend to read as well. We do have a few signals we use around reading updates, but the majority of the insights are driven by your overall reading history and recent content. So there will be plenty to enjoy even if only reading in bursts.
Congrats on the launch! The Reading Autobiography is a genuinely interesting idea, most trackers just give you stats but the "why you read what you read" angle is something else entirely.
Curious how it handles rereads. Do they count separately or does it track how your relationship with the same book changes over time?