Leaf & Spine vs Beginners Sponsorship Guide

Your library, your shelf, your reading habit. Leaf & Spine is a calm, distraction-free home for your EPUBs, PDFs, comics and audiobooks. Arrange them on a 3D bookshelf, read with highlights, notes and drawings, listen with the screen off, and watch a daily reading habit take shape. Read for free, or upgrade to Premium for stats, focus sessions, backups and your own servers. BRING IN YOUR BOOKS • Read EPUB, PDF, CBZ and CBR, and listen to audiobooks. Audiobooks require Premium. • Add a whole folder at once, or pick files yourself. • Discover free public-domain books and audiobooks from Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks and LibriVox. • Connect your own server (Premium): Calibre, Calibre-Web, Kavita, Komga, Audiobookshelf, or a WebDAV folder such as Nextcloud or a NAS. Browse it, search it as you type, and download books to read offline. READ YOUR WAY • Highlight, take notes, draw with pen, pencil and highlighter, and look words up in the dictionary or translator. • Listen: the page is read aloud with the sentence lit up, using natural voices made on your device, and an EPUB that comes with a recording plays the narrator. • Focus mode for reading a sentence at a time, and a reading ruler. • Presets, typefaces (including Atkinson Hyperlegible and OpenDyslexic), heading styles and page-turn speed. Premium readers can import their own fonts. AUDIOBOOKS THAT KEEP PLAYING • Keep listening with your phone locked or while you use another app, with play, pause and skip on the lock screen. • Chapters, bookmarks, notes, speed and a sleep timer that works with the screen off. ORGANISE YOUR SHELF • A 3D bookshelf with categories, sub-categories, tags and series, sorted and grouped by author or series, with bookends you can fold into a box set. • Spines take their colour from each book's cover, or customise spines, patterns and covers yourself. • A page for every book: progress, the next in its series, description, chapters and your marks. • Fix a book's details, or fill them in from Open Library (Premium). • The Notebook gathers every highlight, note, drawing and looked-up word from your whole library, and one search covers it all. BUILD A HABIT • Goals in minutes a day or days a week, reminders at a time you choose, and streak freezes so one missed day doesn't erase months. • Home follows the series you are reading, and finishing a book offers the next one. • Home screen widgets with your current book and a highlight worth rereading. • Premium stats: time read and listened, pages, chapters, books finished, genres, highlights and words looked up, by week, month, year or all time. FOCUS SESSIONS (Premium) • Set a timer and read inside an immersive environment: a fireplace, a beach, a waterfall or a rainy window, each with its own ambience and music, which keep playing with the screen locked. YOUR PLACE, EVERYWHERE (Premium) • Back up automatically to iCloud or Google Drive, and keep your place across your devices. • Sync your progress with Audiobookshelf, Komga, Kavita and KOReader. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account or sign-up needed to start reading. • Your books, highlights, notes and progress stay on your device. Backups go to your own iCloud or Google Drive, never to our servers. • Six themes, light and dark (two free), and the app in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. PERFECT FOR • Students who highlight, draw and track study time. • Fiction readers who want EPUBs and audiobooks in one place. • Comic and manga readers with CBZ and CBR collections. • Anyone with a Calibre, Kavita, Komga or Audiobookshelf library. CONTENT NOTICE Leaf & Spine does not sell or host books. Discover lists free public-domain titles from Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks and LibriVox; everything else is your own files and your own servers. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

A free digital companion to the paper Beginners Sponsorship Guide by Bobby. Built for the AA community — for people who have completed the 12 steps and are now ready to sponsor others. THE GUIDE The full 60-page guide, digitized. Big Book passages for each step with tap-to-read excerpts. The Problem and Solution diagrams, Step One through Step Twelve illustrations, the Spiritual Arch, and the "Our Way of Life" diagram — all redrawn as crisp vector graphics. WRITABLE INVENTORIES The Resentment Inventory, Fear Inventory, and Sex Conduct Inventory are fully writable, laid out the way Bobby designed them: • Resentment Inventory — four columns, seven areas of self, three belief/fear pairs per area, and the full column four (Realization, Self-Seeking, Selfish, Dishonest, Afraid, Harm). • Fear Inventory — chain the fears underneath your fears until you reach the root. • Sex Conduct Inventory — relationship history plus the nine questions from the Big Book, page 69. • Future Sex Ideal — build your "God, in the future I would like to be…" list. SPONSOR + SPONSEE Link with your sponsor (or sponsee) using a simple 6-character code — no email, no passwords. When the sponsee is ready, they tap "Share" and the sponsor can read the inventory from their own phone. Mark resentments and relationships as "Reviewed together" so you always know where you left off between sessions. PRIVACY Your inventory content is private by default. It only becomes visible to a sponsor after you tap Share. No ads. No analytics. No email or phone number required. You can delete your account and all data from Settings at any time. ACKNOWLEDGMENT This app is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. The 12 Steps and the Big Book are the property of A.A.W.S. The Beginners Sponsorship Guide was written by Bobby as a service to the fellowship. This app is a community effort to make it more accessible. See ya in the trenches.