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Digital + printable reading journal for book lovers

The Book Lover's Reading Journal

Log every book, review your favourites and set your reading goals

Choose your format

$5.99Goodnotes & PDF

What you get with the Goodnotes & PDF edition

  • 35-page digital planner with clickable tabs, contents and back links
  • Two designs: Classic and the colourful Pop design
  • Printable US Letter versions of both designs
  • Recommended Resources for Authors PDF

A hyperlinked PDF for Goodnotes, Notability, Noteshelf and other PDF note apps on iPad or Android tablets. Tap the tabs and contents to jump between pages.

About this journal

Log every book, review your favourites and set your reading goals. The Book Lover's Reading Journal has 5 sections: plan, log, reviews, extras and year.

It comes as Goodnotes & PDF, Microsoft Word, Notion template and E-ink edition, or as a printed, spiral-bound planner, so you can plan in the app you already use.

Sample pages

Take a look inside

Real pages from the Book Lover's Reading Journal, in both designs. Tap a page to see it bigger.

What's inside

5 sections, 35 pages in the PDF

Plan5 pages

  • Reading goals for the year
  • 24-prompt reading challenge
  • To-be-read list to tick off

Log3 pages

  • Books read log
  • Date & rating for every book
  • Series tracker

Reviews12 pages

  • Review space for 24 books
  • Genre, format & rating out of five
  • Would you recommend it?

Extras4 pages

  • Genre mix tally
  • Favourite quotes
  • Book club notes

Year2 pages

  • Top ten of the year
  • Year in review
  • Your ten favourites, in order

Section and page counts are for the Goodnotes & PDF edition; the other formats hold the same planning pages, arranged to suit each app.

Highlights

Inside the Book Lover's Reading Journal

See your genre mix

  • Genre Mix: tally the genres you read this year
  • Spot a genre you'd like to try more of
  • Favourite quotes, with the book and page number
  • Book club notes: your questions and what others said

Plan your reading year

  • Set your reading goals for the year
  • 24 prompts, from a classic to a book in translation
  • Tick each prompt off and note the book you read for it
  • A to-be-read list to tick off as you go

Review every book

  • Log every book you finish, with the date and your rating
  • Series tracker: books read, next up and whether it's out yet
  • Review space for 24 books, two to a page
  • Genre, format, a rating out of five and your thoughts

Your top ten of the year

  • Rank your ten favourite books of the year, in order
  • Say why each one earned its place
  • Year in review: books read, your favourite book and why
  • Bookshops and libraries you visited, and what you found there

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