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Marginalia

Your reading life, kept.

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Every book you're reading, every line worth keeping, and your whole reading year — in one quiet place that never leaves your browser.

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Marginalia — The library — currently reading, with progress at a glance
Build state
Polished — ship-ready
Copies
Unlimited copies
Created in
Claude Code
Set-up
An afternoon with your brand

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What we checked.

We opened the source, ran the product, tested the core flow, captured the screens ourselves, and documented what’s needed to own, adapt, and run it.

  • Core flow tested
  • Screens captured by Archify
  • Source included
  • Setup documented
  • Transfer-ready

A review of what runs and what’s included — not a full security audit or a guarantee of business success.

The idea

A quiet place for the books.

Marginalia keeps your reading life on three shelves — what you're reading, what's finished, what's still waiting — and gives every book a page of its own: progress, quotes with page numbers, notes in the margins, a rating when it's done. There are no cover images to hunt down; every cover and spine is generated from the title, so the shelves look beautiful from the first book. And everything stays in the browser — no account, no cloud, nothing leaves the device.

What you're really keeping

A shelf you can actually see.

The want-to-read pile and the read shelf — every finished book a coloured spine, every cover generated from its title. Not an image anywhere.

Marginalia — A shelf you can actually see.

Library · Want to read and the read shelf — fourteen sample books in the box

The book page

Progress, quotes, and notes in the margins.

Log the page you're on — reaching the last page marks the book read. Keep the lines worth keeping as quotes with their page numbers, write impressions that save as you type, move the book between shelves, rate it when it's done. Everything about one book, on one page.

Marginalia — Book · Progress & quotes
01Book · Progress & quotesArchify capture

A taste of the rest.

Your reading year in numbers, and the welcome that starts it all. The full walkthrough comes with your copy.

Marginalia — Stats · Your reading year
02Stats · Your reading yearArchify capture
Marginalia — Welcome · First run
03Welcome · First runArchify capture

For whom

Who it’s for.

Readers who keep their books in a notes app, a spreadsheet, or someone else's platform — and want one calm, private home for it. Also indie makers who want a finished, beautiful reading app to brand and ship.

What you can launch

In your hands.

A private reading companion under your own name — shelves, quotes, notes and a yearly goal — that runs entirely in the browser, with no backend to pay for.

Buy it once

Yours to run, rebrand, and keep.

No server, no bill

Runs on your own machine or a free Vercel account. No backend, no database, nothing to pay for month to month.

Private by default

Books, quotes and notes live in your own browser. Nothing leaves the device unless you choose to host it.

Make it yours

Your name, your colours, your yearly goal. Open it in Claude Code — or any AI editor — and make it yours.

Archify verified

Reviewed and run by Archify before publishing. The captures above are real, not seller-supplied.

The maker

Behind Marginalia.