Platform

Readly

Browse the library, manage loans, and ask for the book you actually want.

What it does

Browsing the library by genre, with the number of books on each shelf.

The whole catalogue, by shelf

Fiction, picture books, comics, mythology, reference, a Kannada shelf — browse what the library actually holds, and see how many are on each shelf, before you make the trip.

Asking for a book in plain language and getting suggestions back.

Ask for a book the way you would ask a librarian

Describe what your child is in the mood for and the search works it out. No need to know the title, the author, or which shelf it belongs on.

A reading history: every book this family has borrowed and returned.

Every book they have read, kept

A running record of what each child has borrowed and returned, across the whole family. It is also what the recommendations are built on.

And also

Request a title we do not have

If a child wants a book that is not in the catalogue, ask for it here. Requests are how the shelves actually grow.

Recommendations that follow the reader

Suggestions based on what that child has finished, not on what happened to be facing outward on the shelf.

Why we built this

A library is only as good as the next book a child is handed. Readly exists so that choice is informed by what they have actually read — and so a book they want is a request we can see, rather than a wish nobody recorded.

More on where that came from in our story.