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The Secret History
Donna Tartt
Began 14 May
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Shelved in · Modern Gothic
The Digital Curator ProjectWhere every story
Where every story
finds its shelf.
A reading companion for those who believe books deserve to be beautifully kept. Track your shelf, share your taste, discover what's next.
Read on
- Import Goodreads, StoryGraph & Fable
- Web, phone & desktop
- Independent — never Amazon
- Quarter-star + sub-ratings
- Export your data anytime
- No ads, no algorithm
- Import Goodreads, StoryGraph & Fable
- Web, phone & desktop
- Independent — never Amazon
- Quarter-star + sub-ratings
- Export your data anytime
- No ads, no algorithm
The Shelf
A library that looks like a library.
Spines stand, one leans, tonight's book waits on the easel. Every book you shelve takes its place on a wall worth showing — and every passage you keep is typeset like it mattered. Because it did.
PersuasionJane Austen
Middlemarch
The Name of the Rose
Beloved
A Moveable Feast
The Waves
Wolf Hall
The Remains of the Day
Giovanni's Room
The Secret History
To the Lighthouse
Mrs Dalloway
Bleak House
Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
Kept to your commonplace book · 14 May
Drawn from a real Reedr shelf · Every spine is yours to arrange
Why Readers Leave
Everything you keep on Goodreads — without Goodreads.
Bring your library across in a single import. What you gain is a reading app that finally answers to readers.
Yours, not Amazon’s
Goodreads belongs to Amazon. Reedr answers to readers — no retailer deciding what you see, no shopping cart stitched to your shelf.
On every screen you read from
One library across phone, tablet, and desktop. Install it like an app or open it in any browser — no app-store gate, no mobile-only walls.
Ratings that mean something
Quarter-stars, plus separate marks for plot, characters, writing, and sheer enjoyment. A four finally means what you meant by it.
Your opinion forms first
We keep the crowd’s average out of sight until you’ve rated. You meet the book, not its number.
Your data stays yours
Bring your Goodreads, StoryGraph, or Fable library across in one import, and export everything whenever you like. If Reedr ever disappeared, you’d keep all of it.
No ads. No algorithm. No AI guessing.
Recommendations arrive only when you go looking for them. Nothing is sold here, and nothing is pushed at you.
The Reedr Difference
Books deserve to be beautifully kept.
A shelf, not a spreadsheet
Your library, rendered with the warmth of physical books — spines, jackets, easels, and all. Arrange it by era, mood, or colour; it is your wall to hang.
Recommendations with taste
Find your next read through people whose shelves you admire — not algorithms chasing engagement. Taste compounds when it is legible.
Quotes worth keeping
Save the lines that linger. Each one typeset into your commonplace book — beautiful enough to share, private enough to keep.
The Ritual
Four quiet steps to a well-kept library.
No streaks that shame you, no badges, no noise. Reedr asks for a few minutes when you finish a book — and gives you a room you'll want to return to for years.
Begin the ritualShelve what you’ve read
Scan a barcode, search a title, or bring your Goodreads, StoryGraph, or Fable library in a single import. Covers, editions, and reading dates arrive intact.
Arrange the room
Choose a shelf theme, set tonight’s book on the easel, order your spines by era, mood, or colour. The shelf should look like you.
Follow taste, not algorithms
Browse the shelves of readers you admire. When someone whose judgement you trust finishes something extraordinary, you’ll hear about it — quietly.
Keep what the books gave you
Save the passages that stopped you mid-page. Reedr typesets each one into a quote card for your commonplace book — share it, or keep it entirely yours.
Beyond the Shelf
Three doors into the library.
Photograph a shelf, keep a library
Point your camera at any bookshelf and Reedr reads the spines, title by title. A wall of books becomes your shelf in about a minute, each one ready to arrange.
Read along, spoiler-safe
Start a read-along with friends and watch each other's progress on the same book. Notes stay sealed until you reach the page they were written on, so nothing is ever spoiled.
A reading room of classics
Some books you can open right here: a built-in reader stocked with the classics, free, your place kept to the page. The shelf is also somewhere to sit.
Where We Stand
Beholden to readers, no one else.
Reedr is independent and ad-free, built for the long keeping of books. No retailer owns it, no feed games you, and your library leaves with you the day you decide to go.
No ads · No algorithm · One quiet nudge a night, never a streak that shames you
Before You Ask
The practical matters.
Is my shelf public?
Private by default, always. You choose what to publish — your profile shows only the shelves you have deliberately marked public, and you can take any of them back behind the curtain at any time.
Can I bring my Goodreads, StoryGraph, or Fable history?
Yes. From Goodreads or StoryGraph, export your CSV and drop it in — Reedr matches covers, editions, and reading dates automatically and sets aside anything ambiguous for you to confirm. Fable has no export of its own, so use a free Fable-to-CSV tool (like the ShelfBridge browser extension) and drop that file the same way. Most libraries arrive intact in under five minutes.
See the step-by-step Fable guide →Does Reedr work on my phone?
Reedr is a fast web app that installs straight to your home screen. Scan barcodes with your camera at the bookshop, shelve from the sofa — your library syncs everywhere you sign in.
What does it cost?
The essential shelf is yours from day one. Collector — unlimited shelves, advanced themes, and your year in books, beautifully bound — is a single modest subscription. The details live on the pricing page.
Do you sell my reading data?
Never. Your reading history is not inventory. No advertising, no data sales — Reedr is funded by Collector subscriptions alone, which is precisely why it can stay quiet.
What about ebooks and audiobooks?
Shelve them all. A book is a book — hardcover, paperback, ebook, or audio. Pick the edition whose cover you love and Reedr keeps the format noted alongside it.
Something else on your mind? Write to us — a person reads every note.
REEDR
A closing note
“The library is a place for those who believe a book is more than its content — it is an object, a memory, a self-portrait.”
From the Reedr manifesto
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