excerpta plural noun
ex·cerp·ta |ek-ˈsərp-tə|
- broadly :
- brief bits of writing
- often :
- clippings or résumés
- also :
- a book tracker
A book tracker that keeps your quotes. shelves. progress. streaks. notes.
Your library, the quotes that left an impression, where you left off, and how your year in reading is going.
Download on the App StoreFor iPhone and iPad.
The Journal
A Timeline For Every Book
The quote that made you feel something, what you thought about it, a photo of where you were when you experienced it, and which character said it. It all lands on one page, in the order it happened. Each reread has its own timeline.
Babel
R. F. Kuang
56 Pages
The footnotes are definitely not for decoration.
Languages aren't just made of words. They're modes of looking at the world.
The whole thesis of the book!
PleasantRobin SwiftRamy Mirza
51%
Circe
Madeline Miller
76 Pages
But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth.
The loneliest sentence in the book and it is about the company we keep.
UnpleasantCirceDaedalus
Every chapter is a myth retold from the side of the woman it happened to.
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
52 Pages
Journal entries with invented dates. The form is doing the work.
The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.
The first line and the last line of the book, and they mean different things by the end.
Very PleasantPiranesi
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
57 Pages
Second person for Essun, third for Damaya and Syenite 👀
Let's start with the end of the world, why don't we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.
The whole book is in this line.
PleasantEssun
Library
Shelves for Days
Jump from Books, Authors, Characters, and Series with one tap, for your entire collection. You can also make your own shelves.
Quotes and Notes
Never Forget What Stopped You
Scan quotes from physical books. Pick a highlight color, add a note, tag whoever said it, add how you felt.
Progress and Goals
Know Where You Left Off
Start the timer when you sit down and mark which page you ended after each session. Works for all book formats, including audiobooks. Set goals for books and pages read, or how far you want to get for one book in particular.
Stats
See How The Year Is Going
Pace, time to finish, pages, genres, formats, moods and ratings. See them per year, per month, or all time. You can also customize which stats you want to see, and in which order.
Search and Discovery
Find The Next One
Search every book, author, series, quote and note you have, with tags, chapters and characters matching too. Discover something new through the Hardcover.app community.
And so much more.
Import and Export
Import from Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, Goodreads, and StoryGraph, or any other app using our CSV importer.
iCloud Sync
Keep your collection synced with you on supported Apple devices.
Hardcover
Connect and optionally sync your account. Enables more Discovery options, community ratings, and automatic series tracking.
Moods
Log while you read. Works with Apple Health.
Nooks
Remember where you were when you read it.
Screen Saver
Your quotes on a slow loop while the phone charges.
Widgets
See quotes or your weekly progress on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen.
App Icons
Have a favorite highlight color? Now your app icon does too.
Rereads
See how your experience changes for each readthrough.
Goals
Set goals for books, pages, or per book progression.
Tags
Easily rediscover quotes based on your own classification system.
Backup
Export the whole library any time to markdown and CSV.
Shortcuts
Open the camera to scan a page, or activate the screen saver from the Action button.
No Account
Everything is stored on device.