Margin
A reading log that knows its prizes

Keep track of what you read, and how it all connects.

Margin logs your pages in a few seconds, then shows how books, authors, prizes and translators connect. Each suggestion comes with the reason for it.

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A sample library

Pick a book from this shelf.

Every spine is generated from its title, so a book looks the same each time you open it. Width follows page count. A dot marks a prize link.
Translated from Polish · 400 pages
Flights
Olga Tokarczuk
International Booker 2018Author: Nobel 2018
Connections
Won
International Booker Prize 2018.
Author won
Nobel Prize in Literature, for the 2018 prize, awarded in 2019.
Translated from
Polish, by Jennifer Croft.
How it works

Four things it does well.

01 · Log

Log a session in under ten seconds.

Pick the book, enter the page you stopped on, and press the button. Margin works out how many pages you read and updates your pace and finish date. Ratings go in quarter-star steps, and you set them by dragging across the stars.

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Shuggie Bain · 430 pages
267of 430, 62%
+10+20Log it
★★★★★4.25
The Vegetarian · notes along the book
page 1you’re on page 117188
M
Mina · page 74
The first part ends here. Give yourself a minute before the next.
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A reader · page 140
Sealed until you reach page 140.
02 · Notes

Notes in the margin, sealed by page.

Leave a note, up to 280 characters, at the page you were on. Other readers of the book see it only once they reach that page. The lock is enforced by the database, not just the screen, and you can keep your notes private.

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03 · Recommend

Every suggestion shows its path.

Margin looks at the prizes you follow and picks the winner closest to the books you rated highly: the one that shares the most prizes with them. It writes the reason as a marginal note, in plain sentences built from the prize records, so you can check it.

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Marginal note
You rated Flights 5 stars. Flights and this one both won the International Booker Prize, and both authors won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
How you rate (sample data)
Books per half star. Average 3.5.
04 · Read

See your own taste, in numbers.

Your library shows how you rate, your average, and how you rate the books from each prize you follow. Bring your history from Goodreads or StoryGraph, and export everything as CSV or JSON whenever you like.

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The illustrations above use sample readers, notes and numbers.
The data

Starts with the big prizes, built to take more.

Prize records
Booker, International Booker and Nobel winners, plus Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and World Fantasy winners since 2010, with Booker shortlists and longlists where we hold them. New prizes drop in as another list with the same shape.
Your own shelf
Reading sessions, ratings and notes belong to you. Export them as a file at any time, or delete your account and everything under it from settings.
The catalog is a starting set: not every prize or year is covered yet, and page counts are approximate. You can add any book that is missing.