A reading circle for friends
Read together.Rise together.
Pick one book with two or three friends. Highlight the line that hits you, argue about it in the margin, turn the best idea into a habit — and keep everything worth keeping.
Free. Bring any PDF.
Our life is frittered away by detail.
“This is my screen-time report in one sentence.”
Price: twenty minutes an evening
Open it9:40PM
An hour into the feed.You couldn't name three things you saw.
How a circle works
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Everyone opens the same book. Your place is saved — and you can see roughly where your friends are.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
You · p. 112 of 180 · Maya is ahead, Dev is catching up
Twenty minutes after dinner is 121 hours a year. That's about 20 books — read with people who'll ask what you thought.
20 min × 365 nights = 121.7 hours. At 250 words a minute and roughly 90,000 words a book, that's 20.3 books.
Start with a classic. Or bring any PDF.
Your circle reads whatever you upload. These four are public domain, free, and very good at starting arguments.
What you won't find inside
A book has a last page. So does an evening on Readrise. That's not a missing feature.
- The infinite feed — not included
- Follower counts — not included
- Ads — not included
- Guilt trips — not included
Just your friends, one book, and the margin between you.