A Goodreads alternative where the shelf builds itself — from what you've actually read

Your reading life, without the data entry

Goodreads has one job — be the record of what you've read — and it makes you do the work: search the title, click 'want to read', click 'read', maybe a star rating you'll never trust. Years of manual logging for a feed full of strangers and ads, on a site Amazon bought and let rot. Fasrad builds the shelf for you. Your Kindle library syncs from Amazon, every owned book lands on a real shelf with its cover, and the passages you highlighted come with it. No logging. No reviews to write. The record is just… there.

And then it does what Goodreads can't:

• Ask your shelf anything. "Have I read Sapiens?" "What books about AI have I read?" "What were my last 10 reads?" — answered from your real library, with covers, in chat. No browsing a profile page.
• Recommendations from YOUR taste, not the crowd. "Based on Atlas Shrugged, what else by Ayn Rand should I read?" "Suggest a summer beach read." You get new books you haven't read — grounded in your own authors and topics — each linking to Amazon. Not 'readers also liked'.
• Your highlights are the review. Click any book and read every passage you flagged, with its location. The honest record of what a book meant to you isn't a star rating — it's what you underlined.
• Import the Goodreads you already have. Bring your Goodreads export so nothing's lost, then let the Kindle sync keep it current automatically.

Switching is one Scanner install and a click. Your Kindle library and highlights land on the shelf; the shelf stays current on its own. Owned books you never highlighted show up too — the whole library, not just the annotated ones.

Goodreads is a social network that happens to track books. Fasrad is a reading memory that happens to be beautiful. The shelf is yours, the recommendations are about you, and you never log a book by hand again.

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• AI Research Analyst — Hand it a question and a deadline, get a brief that shows its work — figures, links, and the page each number came from.
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Frequently asked questions

How does my Kindle library get onto the shelf?

Install the Fasrad Scanner browser extension, sign in to read.amazon.com once, and hit Sync. It reads your owned library and your highlights from Amazon's own pages — no public API, no keys — and builds a shelf with covers, authors, and every passage you flagged. A daily auto-sync keeps it current.

Can I import my existing Goodreads shelf?

Yes — bring your Goodreads CSV export and those books land on the shelf alongside your Kindle library. From there the Kindle sync keeps everything current automatically, so you stop maintaining two records.

Where do book covers come from?

Covers are fetched from Open Library and Google Books (English editions preferred), resized, and cached on our servers — so the grid loads fast and doesn't ping Amazon every time you open it.

How are recommendations different from Goodreads' 'readers also liked'?

Goodreads recommends from what the crowd bought. Fasrad recommends from what *you* read — your authors, your topics — and excludes anything already on your shelf, so every suggestion is genuinely new. Each one links straight to Amazon.

Do I have to rate or review books?

Never. The record builds itself from your Kindle library, and your highlights are the honest record of what each book meant to you. No stars to assign, no reviews to write unless you want to.

Can I see the passages I highlighted?

Yes — click any book and a reading view opens with every highlight you flagged, each with its Kindle location. Ask in chat too: "show my highlights from The Singularity Is Nearer."

Is my shelf private?

Yes. Unlike Goodreads, there's no public feed by default — your reading is yours. You can share a shelf when you want to, not by default.