Rera: Reading Journal

Rera is not an app for counting the books you have read, or for lining them up neatly on a shelf. It is for people looking for an app to wrestle with a book and make it part of themselves. Rera is a reading journal for keeping the traces you leave when you face a single book. Underline a line, copy out a passage that caught you, scribble what you felt in the margin. The things people used to do in a paper notebook, kept here as they are. Counting the books on your shelf does not keep what you felt in that moment. What Rera cares about is not the number of books or a completion rate, but your own heart at the moment you wrestled with a book. [What you can do] - Take a photo of a cover or a page - Trace the text in the photo with your finger and highlight it on the spot - Write down your thoughts, your objections, your quotes as notes - Your traces are quietly bound together, one book at a time [The lines you drew gather together] The words you highlight gently collect on that book's page. When you look back later, only the places where your heart moved remain, resting as quotes in sepia ink. Not to paint over and be done, but to savor again. [In the end, a book of your own] Your traces can be typeset vertically or horizontally and exported as a single PDF. Not the number of books you read, but a private book of the self that passed through them. [A quiet place] Your photos and notes are stored only on your device. No ads, no rankings, no comparison with others. A quiet place to face a book alone. Available in Japanese, English, and Chinese. To read is not to memorize, but to change. Bind the fragments of that change into Rera.