BookTrack

Track what you're reading — progress, ratings, streaks and a yearly goal. On-device.

Reading logs work for the same reason food logs do: the act of recording changes the behaviour being recorded. Noting where you stopped makes it visible that you read four pages in a week, which is information the vague sense of I've been reading actively hides.

A yearly goal is a blunter instrument and worth using carefully. It reliably increases the number of books finished, and it also nudges people toward shorter ones and away from abandoning something that is not working. Progress and streaks tend to be the more useful signals, since they measure the habit rather than the tally.