A free guided reading journal
This is a gentle companion for slow reading: seven short guided sessions that help you notice more, remember more, and actually finish the book on your nightstand. Free to use, and your notes never leave this browser.
Any book. The one on your nightstand counts.
A sentence is plenty. There are no wrong answers.
Your notes stay on this device. Print or download them anytime.
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Four weeks of reading invitations, printable worksheets, and a phone companion — everything you need to turn ten quiet minutes into a daily ritual.
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One short email a day for seven days — a gentle nudge and a prompt to sit down with your book. Free, and you can unsubscribe anytime.
I'm 27, I live in Portland with too many plants and a cat named Brontë, and I work days at an independent bookshop. Evenings are for reading slowly — one chapter, a pot of tea, phone face-down. More about me →
Most of us read in the cracks of the day — a page here, a chapter there, half-remembered. This journal was made for the opposite: ten unhurried minutes, one book, and a few honest sentences about what it stirred in you.
Readers who keep a ritual say the books stay with them longer. Not because they read more, but because they noticed more. That is all this journal asks of you: notice a little, write a little, and let the story do the rest.