The Last Book Shelf

A thousand books worth your remaining time, and an honest count of how many you have left. One Book of the Moment standing trial each month while the Librarian reads it in public. Pairs and small clubs, so you never have to read the great ones alone. That's the app: a candle against the pile of books you'll die not having read. New in this release: the app now reads in two lights. Candlelight is the room as built, dark and warm and lit for late hours. Paper is the same room at noon, dark ink on a bright page, for eyes that strain against light-on-dark type. The switch sits at the top of Settings and your choice sticks. Every screen was retuned by hand so both lights stay legible, down to the thousand tiny tiles of the Canon Conquest grid. One seat changed hands in the canon: Jon Fosse's Septology, seven parts and one unbroken sentence, takes the place of Milkman in the last-decade wing.