Reader's Friend
Your reading life, gathered

Keep what you read, and what it made you think.

Reader's Friend is a calm home for your books — track where you are, write notes in the margin you'll actually find again, and read alongside friends in clubs that meet, and finish.

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Bluets
Maggie Nelson
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
Severance
Ling Ma

“I had fallen in love with a color.” — who does she think she is (me).

BLUETS · P.1
38k
readers keeping shelves
1.2M
margin notes written
4,100
clubs reading together
How it works

Three quiet habits, one place to keep them.

Step 01

Track what you’re reading

Shelves for reading, finished, and want-to-read. Pick up exactly where you left off — Reader’s Friend remembers the page so you don’t have to.

Step 02

Note it in the margin

Highlight a passage, write the thought it sparked, and pin it to the page. Every note is searchable later — the good ones never get lost.

Step 03

Read with your people

Start a club, set a pace, and talk as you go. Shared progress keeps everyone roughly on the same page — and gets the book actually finished.

Bluets · Proposition I

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color. Suppose I were to speak this as though it were a confession.

The confession framing — she makes a private obsession sound almost criminal. Sets the whole tone.

YOUR NOTE · P.1 · 2 DAYS AGO
Margin notes

The best part of a book is what you thought while reading it.

Most reading apps count your pages. Reader's Friend keeps your thinking. Highlight a line, write a note beside it, and it stays pinned to the page — and collected in one place you can search.

  • Clay and spruce highlights for the two kinds of marking
  • Every note searchable, long after you’ve finished
  • Share a note with a friend, or keep it just for you
Book clubs

Read together, in good company.

Pick a book, set a gentle pace, and keep a running conversation in the margins together. Shared progress means no one's left behind — and the book actually gets finished.

Start a club
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
Weekly · Tuesdays 7:00pm
Tuesday Readers
6 readers · Gilead
ML
Mara L. · 2h

The whole book is a letter to a son who can’t read it yet. I keep forgetting and re-remembering that.

DR
Daniel R. · 1h

Page 47 undid me. Pacing us a chapter a day was the right call.

Begin tonight

Your next good reading hour starts here.