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Keep what your books leave you

A private reading journal. Keep the lines that stop you, write what stays with you, and find what to read next.

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Marginalia’s Library on a phone: books on the shelf, one of them being read, at 67 percent.
One library, on your phone and your computerAdd it to your phone’s home screen and it opens like an app. There’s no App Store or Google Play version yet.

How it works

From the first page to the next book

  • Your books

    Find a book by typing a few letters of its title. Track how far you are, and score it when you finish.

    A book’s page: Stoner, read, scored 4.5 out of 5, with its highlights and reflections one tap away.

  • Passages and reflections

    Photograph a page or type it in to keep a passage. Then write what the book left you, when you finish it or years later.

    A book’s highlights: two passages, each with its chapter and date, one with a note beneath it.

  • What to read next

    Line up what you’ll read next, in a set order or loosely. Marginalia suggests the next one, from your shelf and from authors you loved.

    Discover in Up next: books from your own shelf, each with the reason it was suggested, such as the score you gave another book by the author.

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Also in Marginalia

The small things, done with care

  • One notebook

    Every passage and reflection, from every book, one search away.

  • A passage comes back

    Each day, one you kept a while ago returns to the top of your Library.

  • Text from a photo

    A photographed page is turned into text on your phone or computer, not on a server.

  • Bring your library

    From a Goodreads export, with its shelves, dates and ratings, or from a spreadsheet or a list you paste.

  • A list made to measure

    Choose the length, the language and how many books, and Marginalia builds the list from the ones you haven’t read.

  • Covers that look right

    Found for you when you add a book; pick another or upload your own.

  • Close each reading

    Note how it went, and keep each reread apart.

  • Series in order

    The books of a series stay in order, so you know which one comes next.

  • English and Spanish

    Switch whenever you like; your passages stay in the language you read them.

Private

Yours alone

  • Nothing you keep is public, and no other reader can see it.
  • Download everything you wrote, as JSON and Markdown, whenever you want.
  • Delete your account and everything in it goes at once; the backups clear within 30 days.
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