Why?

A quick search for "Reading Tracker" on the two top Search Engines indicates that there's no obvious answer.

Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=reading+tracker

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=reading+tracker


**_Most_ people _still_** track their reading in either a **Paper Journal**, a **Spreadsheet** or (General) **Notes App**.

## Basic Research

Goodreads recently announced that they are discontinuing their API:

+ Alternatives to Goodreads: https://lifehacker.com/there-are-alternatives-to-goodreads-1844846066
+ Reddit thread for Goodreads Alternatives (2018): https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/7ptbo3/goodreads_alternatives/
+ Meteor app with 66 stars: https://github.com/curiositry/ReaDB ([abandoware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware); last updated in 2017)

### Reading List iOS App

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reading-list-book-tracker/id1217139955

Recent review for iOS App:
_Yes_, reviews, still open in a _Modal_ on the Apple Website ... 🤦

Props to the Developer (Andrew Bennet) for making it Open Source: https://github.com/AndrewBennet/ReadingList

There are a few issues open https://github.com/AndrewBennet/ReadingList/issues
including feature requests: https://github.com/AndrewBennet/ReadingList/issues/3 with feedback from Andrew. 👍

I downloaded the App and it's good.
The UX for adding books is spot on.
It's clearly focussed on having a list of books you want to read or have already read,
but it's useless for tracking the book _while_ you are reading it.
In fact the issue I linked to above https://github.com/AndrewBennet/ReadingList/issues/3 is about Graphs.
But from reading the code, the app does not appear to be collecting the necessary data to create meaningful graphs. 🤷

The data I intend to collect is time-series precisely so that graphs are an _easily_ implemented feature.