Reading

Shelves, progress, reviews, goals, Insights and Wraps.

1. 1.Shelves and progressYour Library has five shelves (Want to Read, Reading, Completed, Did Not Finish, From authors); a book lives on one at a time, and a copy an author handed you keeps its mark wherever you move it. Books you are reading carry a progress percentage; reaching 100 % or tapping Finished moves them to Completed and offers a review.For readers and authors · updated 2026-10-16
2. 2.Writing reviewsA review is a star rating (press a star for a whole one, or use Exact rating for any quarter step) with an optional title and a body of at least 20 characters, plus a spoiler flag; edit or delete it from the book page. You can also say how the book felt, up to three moods and a pace; the book's page shows what most readers found once five have said. Reviews of early copies carry the early reader badge and one extra rule, honesty.For readers and authors · updated 2026-10-17
3. 3.Importing your library from Goodreads or StoryGraphLibrary › Import takes a Goodreads or StoryGraph CSV export (up to 5 MB), matches each row by ISBN then by title and author, and puts the books on your shelves; ratings stay with you and nothing is posted as a review.For readers · updated 2026-10-16
4. 4.Smart shelves and saved searchesA smart shelf fills itself from a rule you choose (unread by authors you follow, hidden gems, open early copies in your genres, series you have not finished, short reads, coming soon), with a length, a lowest rating and an order; a saved search is a Books filter you named. Five shelves and ten saved searches per reader.For readers · updated 2026-09-20
5. 5.Reading goalsGoals tracks what you read against a target you set (books finished, genres explored, a series, one particular book and more) over a period, with optional reminders, on your profile or private; a goal can rest and resume without losing anything. Five at a time.For readers · updated 2026-09-20
6. 6.Reading insightsInsights shows what you read (genres, how you rate, themes you return to, pages where the length is known, when you finished), this year and all time, computed from your own shelves and progress; nothing is shared unless you make a Wrap.For readers · updated 2026-10-16
7. 7.Wraps: your month or year, shareableA Wrap is a page about a reading period (a month, or a year once it has ended) kept as it stood when you made it; it is private until you create a link, the link shows only the sections you keep on and never your advance-copy record, and you can take it down at any time.For readers · updated 2026-09-20
8. 8.Content warnings and content levelsAuthors describe a book's content warnings in their own words and set a content level; both show on the book page, and an Explicit book opens only for signed-in readers who have said they are 18 or older. A topic you asked to avoid keeps matching books out of the books Discover recommends for your taste, and is marked on the book's page wherever else you meet it; nothing is hidden from search.For readers and authors · updated 2026-10-13
9. 9.Reading Life postsThe composer at the top of Home posts a reading moment to your profile and your followers' feeds (started, finished, progress, a recommendation, a question, a poll and twenty more formats), each with an audience: Public, Followers or Only me. Edit or delete yours from the ⋯ menu.For readers · updated 2026-09-21
10. 10.Following, and what you are toldFollow authors (their pen name), readers and series; their news reaches your feed and the bell, grouped and switchable per author. Notifications live under the bell, everything can be marked read at once, and e-mail is a digest, never one message per event.For readers and authors · updated 2026-09-22
11. 11.How achievements workAchievements are illustrated marks for things you actually did here. Finishing books, turning up to Circle meetings, charting. Only the ones you have earned are shown, newest first, on your profile; each opens to say when and for what.For readers and authors · updated 2026-10-03
12. 12.A copy from an author: the delivery linkAn author can hand you a protected copy of their book through a link, a QR code or a giveaway you win, and every one of them lands in your Library, marked with the pen name who sent it. The page shows the author, the book and their note, with one button: without an account you create a free reader account in one step and the book opens; signed in, it is one tap. A copy from a link is a gift: nothing is owed, no review and no deadline, and nothing about it goes on your record. If a link is full, expired or revoked, a claimed copy stays on your shelf.For readers · updated 2026-10-17
13. 13.An author's letters by e-mail: subscribing, replying, unsubscribingFollowing an author puts their Journal in your feed. Subscribing sends you their letters as full e-mails as well, with the author's name and mark and one button back to the letter on Booklabria, where you answer it in the comments. Subscribing is one explicit checkbox per author that says the author can export your e-mail address; unsubscribe is one click in every letter, and from then on the author's export leaves you out. Followers who never ticked the box are never exported.For readers · updated 2026-09-22
14. 14.Ask the authorA reader can ask an author a question from the author's page, up to three open at a time per author; the author answers as a Journal entry that quotes the question, so the answer reaches every follower, and the asker is told under the bell. The author chooses which questions to answer and can delete any; unanswered questions are seen only by the author. Available on every plan.For readers and authors · updated 2026-09-22
15. 15.Sharing a quote from a bookWhile reading on Booklabria, select a passage and Share a quote: it becomes a Quote post on your Reading Life with the book's chip and the chapter, up to 300 characters, public or to your followers. Authors can set a shorter cap per book, down to none; a book that is not out yet cannot be quoted from any copy until its release day, and a free story with no book page cannot be quoted at all. Where quoting waits, the tool is simply not there.For readers · updated 2026-09-22
16. 16.Follow to read: a free story or sample for followersAn author on the Creator plan and above can offer a sample (the opening of a book) or a free story (a standalone) that is readable on Booklabria by anyone who follows them. The reader follows with one press (or a one-step free account) and reads at once in the same reader as an early copy, with their place kept, in the Library under Samples and stories, below the shelves. It stays there after an unfollow, and reading it again asks for the follow: the follow is the door, not a lease. Nothing is downloaded, nothing is owed.For readers and authors · updated 2026-09-22