Private sittings still count toward every goal and every streak.
Nobody sees a bad week
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Reading used to be something you did alone. Now it's something you belong to.
Leaf turns reading into a record you can share — every sitting logged, every book a route you can trace, and rooms full of people going the same way.
- 01 Log the sitting
- 02 Watch the trail
- 03 Find the room
01 · The sitting
A book is a route,
not a checkbox.
Start the timer and read. When you stop, Leaf takes the pages, the minutes, how it went — scattered, steady, locked in — and where you were. Home, a café, transit, outside, bed, the library.
Each sitting is drawn as a stretch of the book, chapter-aware. Solid for tonight, faded for the nights before, hollow for what's left.
Keep a sitting private and it still counts toward your goals and your streak. Nobody has to see a bad week.
Nadia Kessler
Read 62 pages · p.181–243
The Idiot
Elif Batuman
- 38m
- Duration
- 62
- Pages
- 98
- Pages / hr
- 57%
- Through
Everyone else seemed to know what they were doing, and to have decided, at some point, to keep it to themselves.
02 · The record
Half a year of reading,
in one glance.
Twenty-six weeks of squares. Personal bests kept in a ledger — longest sitting, fastest hundred pages, longest streak — and a reader archetype that falls out of your own data rather than a quiz.
The Midnight Reader. The Finisher. The Annotator. The Twenty-Minute Machine. You'll know which one you are within a month.
Six months of reading
Your record
— days
Less More
- Longest sitting
- 2h 14m
- Fastest 100 pages
- 61m
- Longest streak
- 31 days
- Archetype
- The Midnight Reader
03 · The room
Somebody else is
on chapter nine too.
Everyone in a club, laid out along the same book. You can see at a glance who is ahead, who is behind, and who happens to be standing on the same page as you tonight.
Clubs are public or private, with invite codes, a cadence, events you can RSVP to, and a leaderboard measured in pages. Discussion threads are spoiler-gated — a thread stays blurred until you have actually read that far.
Private club · Weekly
Tuesday Night Club
Reading The Idiot · 9 members
What you get
Six things, built properly.
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The sitting
A timer on a night-dark screen. Pages, minutes, mood, place, one highlight. Public or private, your call each time.
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Reading trail
Every book cut into the stretches you read it in. The route, not the destination.
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Margins
Quotes and thoughts pinned to the page they came from. Your commonplace book, searchable.
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Clubs
Rooms with a book, a cadence, events, and threads that won't spoil what you haven't reached.
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Goals
Just you, head to head, your club, or everyone. Counted in pages, days, minutes, or books.
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Wrapped
Every month: pages, hours, top genre, strongest day, your usual spot. Built to be shared.
Reading, made legible to the people around you
The closed loop
Every sitting feeds the next, turning a private habit into something with a shape.
When somebody starts a book because of you, you hear about it.
Reading chains
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Twenty pages is enough
to keep a streak alive.
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