The Digital Curator Project
A reading life, beautifully kept.
Reedr is a small studio project with one conviction: the record of your reading should be as well made as the books themselves. This page is the story, and the manifesto we hold ourselves to.
A note
Why we built Reedr.
We read about thirty books a year between us. For more than a decade we tracked them on Goodreads, then Storygraph, then a Notion table, then a paper journal, then nothing. None of them felt like a place we’d show a friend.
The shelf is the thing — the actual, physical shelf, with sun-faded spines and the imprint of every reader who pulled a book down. When friends visit, they read the room by reading the wall. We wanted a digital version of that. Not a tracker. A place.
Reedr is small on purpose. It does the few things a reader actually wants — a shelf worth showing, the passages worth keeping, the next book worth your evenings — and it does them with the care that books deserve. If that sounds like something you’ve been looking for, we think you’re going to like it here.
— The Reedr team
The Manifesto
Five things we hold to.
Books are objects, not data points.
Goodreads gave us a database. Storygraph gave us a dashboard. Neither felt like a place you’d hang on a wall. A book has a spine, a jacket, a weight in the hand — and the record of your reading deserves the same materiality. Reedr starts from the spine, not the spreadsheet.
Curation beats the algorithm.
The best recommendation isn’t a ranking model chasing engagement — it’s a person whose shelf you trust handing you something with both hands. Reedr makes your taste legible, so the right books find the right readers through people, not feeds.
Quiet beats loud.
No badges, no points, no leaderboards, no streaks that shame you. One gentle nudge a night when a streak is about to break, and never more. We send fewer emails on purpose — a reading app should be quieter than the habit it supports.
A shelf is a self-portrait.
Walk into a reader’s home and you read the room by reading the wall: what they return to, what they abandoned, what they keep within arm’s reach. Your shelf says what a bio never could. Reedr gives that portrait a frame worth showing.
Keep what the books gave you.
A reading life is not a count. It’s a commonplace book — the passages that stopped you mid-page, gathered over years. The point of finishing a book is what it leaves behind, so Reedr typesets every line you save like it mattered. Because it did.
The creed
“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.”
The line we keep coming back to
Begin
Start your shelf.
Your first shelf takes about five minutes. Bring your whole Goodreads history in one import, or start with the book on your nightstand — either way, the room is ready.
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