Reading List
A private reading list in one HTML file on your machine: no account, no cloud, no server to talk to.
This is not a screenshot. It's the real tool, running right here: go on, put something in it.
Forged into a knife, this tool ages with use: the blades you reach for wear soft, entries you tend keep their bloom, and the years travel with the file through every reforge.
The pile on the nightstand has become architecture, and the recommendations keep arriving. Reading List keeps it civil: each book, whether it's to read, being read, or finished, and notes for what it left behind. Years from now, the notes column is the part you'll be glad you kept.
What it keeps
- Bookshort text
- Statuschoice · To read / Reading / Finished
- Notesnotes
Standing facts
- One HTML file. Opens in any modern browser, on any operating system.
- No account. No login, no sign-up, no e-mail wall.
- No cloud. Nothing leaves your browser: no server, no telemetry, no analytics.
- Yours forever. The file keeps working whether or not Offline.Ltd does.
- Ages with use. Entries you tend keep their bloom; the years travel with the file through every reforge.
In ten years
Whatever you put in (Book, Status and Notes) stays inside the file itself. There is no account to lapse, no plan to be sunset, no migration e-mail with a deadline in it. A decade of reading list entries is a decade of your own handwriting, kept in a document you can back up like any other.
If Offline.Ltd closes tomorrow, nothing on your machine notices. That isn't a marketing promise; it's simply what a file is.
Getting your data out
Export to CSV from inside the tool and open it in anything: a spreadsheet, another app, a text editor. Or keep the HTML file: it is plain, readable, and inspectable; you can open it in a text editor and see your own rows sitting there. No export queue, no "we'll e-mail you a link within 48 hours", no format that only one vendor can read.
Copy the file to a USB stick, a NAS, a folder your devices already sync. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, online or off, because a browser is the only thing it ever needed.
Who else sees this
Nobody. Your Book, Status and Notes never leave the file on your own disk. There is no account, no telemetry, no analytics, and no code in the file that opens a network connection, pull the cable and watch it carry on working. How privacy works across the Knowledge tools →
Questions people ask
How does the Reading List track my books?
Each book gets a status — to read, reading, or finished — and a notes field for thoughts, quotes, or verdicts. Moving a book to 'finished' is a small private ceremony.
Is this better than a book-tracking social app?
Different, mostly. No ratings crowd, no recommendations engine, no profile — just your books, your statuses, and your own notes, which some readers consider the entire point.
Where is my reading list stored?
In one HTML file that runs offline in your browser and belongs to you forever. No account, no server, no algorithm learning your taste — the list never leaves the page.
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