Bouquine

Bouquine is a reading log with company. Start a session when you sit down with a book. The clock runs while you read — and keeps running if you lock your phone or take a call, because time read is time elapsed, not time an app was awake. Stop when you stop, and say where you got to. KEEP WHAT STAYS WITH YOU Copy out the lines worth keeping. They gather into a commonplace book — one place holding every passage you have ever kept, searchable, each one remembering the book and the evening it came from. YOUR SHELF, AND WHAT IS BEHIND YOU Books you are carrying now, books you mean to read, and a case of everything you have finished — numbered in the order you finished it, with the hours behind each one. A FELLOWSHIP, NOT A FEED Add a few readers you actually know. See when they are reading and cheer them while they do. Every session carries its own visibility: everyone, your fellowship, or…