Reading Log

No book limit. One file, many years.

A reading log built around four prompts rather than a star rating: why you picked it up, what it was really about, a line you kept, and who you would hand it to. Guided beats blank, and a grid of stars is what people mean when they call the apps sterile. Fill the prompts you feel like filling; a half-answered row is still a page.

WHAT'S INSIDE

Dashboard - the year at a glance

Start Here - how the file works and which cells are yours

Books - one row per book, where you actually write

Book Page - any one book, laid out as a page

This Year - the roll-up, and your reading goal

Shelf - every book you finished, as a wall of spines

THE PART NOBODY ELSE BUILDS

The Shelf tab turns the year into spines, and the colour of each spine is how much you liked it, in six bands explained inside the file. It is the only chart here you will want to look at for its own sake. No year is printed anywhere in the workbook, so one file carries as many years as you want to put in it, and sixty rows is only where it starts. A book you did not finish is recorded as not finished and never drags down the year's average, because marking a DNF should cost you nothing.

WHAT YOU GET

Excel workbook (.xlsx)

Google Sheets template - one click to copy

Setup instructions (PDF)

Free updates for life

BEFORE YOU BUY

Works in Microsoft Excel 2016 and later, and in Google Sheets. Paste a cover image onto a row if you like; nothing reads it and nothing depends on it. This is the least automated workbook we make, on purpose. Digital download, all sales final.