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Book Report

Book Report is the best way for indie authors and publishers to track their sales data.

Book Report automatically fetches your latest sales numbers and turns them into simple, insightful reports. We don't ask for your password, and your sales data is always fully encrypted, so you can have peace of mind that your data is safe.

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While much of BookReport's functionality is now offered by Amazon's own KDP Reports, I still use it regularly for the wealth of information it conveys, the elegant interface, its user-friendliness, and its simplicity. Yes, both Amazon and Chrome do have a nasty tendency to disable it and ask for confirmation every now and then - but that's nothing to do with Book Report: it's just Amazon and Google trying to keep you safe. Try it, see if it works on your browser, and if it does I hope you fin... Show more

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For something that they charge $ for it is difficult to understand how it can have so many times which it is down. I have had the free version and was upgraded to have to pay and had the same experiences. They have some serious bugs that need to be fixed. If that wasn't the case it would be a powerful as well useful website for authors but it growing frustration does nothing to help creativity.

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Best Book Sales Tracker: How to Track Book Sales Across All Platforms

When I only had one book on one platform like KDP, using a book sales tracker service was unnecessary.

However, when I started having multiple books on multiple platforms like KDP, D2D, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, etc…it would seriously take a lot of time to check each platform’s sales and ensure things were tracking.

And let’s face it, as self-published authors, it’s important to track things like daily sales because this is your income lifeblood. But to do that daily eats up too much time.

On average it takes me 15 minutes to adequately review all sales platforms and look for trends in my different markets. If done every day, that would equate to 92 hours a year wasted…eek!

That’s way too much.

Luckily, there are some services that help alleviate this. Not only do they present your book’s sales information in a much better layout, they’ll make it seamless for you to keep a thumb on your sales pulse and allow you to focus on more important things….like writing your next book .

What book sales reporting services can do
List of book sales tracking services
My favorite service and why you should use it
And yes, there is one that is superior to the others and one of my all time favorite services out there.

What Can Book Sales Trackers Do?
ScribeCount Pricing
ScribeCount Pros and Cons
PublishWide Pricing
PublishWide Pros and Cons
Book Report Pricing
Book Report Pros and Cons
BookTrakr Pricing
BookTrakr Pros and Cons
Verdict: What is the Best Book Tracking Software?

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Put simply, book sales trackers allow you to see all of the data from your book sales in one place.

Let’s face it, KDP’s own sales reporting platform is not great. It can be difficult to parse out the data in beneficial ways (dividing your books up by series, for example), and if you’re on any other platform, it won’t do you any good.

A good book sales tracker will not only let you see all your sales from across multiple platforms, but will also help you organize that data to give you the best insights into the performance of your books.

But book sales trackers are hard to come by. In fact, Amazon is tricky who it allows access to its information. For that reason I actually found quite a few sales trackers that have closed down because Amazon shut them out. See these for example:

eBookTracker
SalesRankExpress
AuthorEarnings

Obviously, none of these links work anymore, which only leaves a few services that provide quality book tracking.

Thankfully, all that technical pressure means that the remaining candidates are the cream of the crop. Here are my favorite book tracking tools for authors:

What is the Best Book Sales Tracking Software?

The best book traking tool is ScribeCount, with PublishWide coming up as a close (but expensive) second. I generally would only recommend PublishWide over ScribeCount if you are a large publisher and want to make simple sense of big data.

Here is a general comparison of the top book sales tracking apps:

ScribeCount – My Favorite

ScribeCount is by far my favorite option for tracking all your book sales. It is affordable, it has a clean interface, and it interacts with all the major book retailers to track your sales.

It includes integration with the following platforms:

Google Play
Barnes & Noble
Draft2Digital
Smashwords (now owned by Draft2Digital)

These are the big players in the self-publishing space, and it’s rare that you will have any major outlets besides these. They’re also working to integrate Audible and Findaway Voices so you can track audiobooks as well (which as far as I know will make it the only service that does this).

But wait, there’s more!

ScribeCount does more than just track your sales. It also pulls in the following data:

Your Kindle Unlimited page reads
Your book ranks
Your book reviews
Geographical sales data

That definitely makes it one of the best aggregators of all time, and definitely the best on this list.

ScribeCount has a LOT of customization options, as they are pulling a lot of data from all of these platforms. It can sometimes get a bit overwhelming, which is my only issue with ScribeCount, but a lot of data and customization options are almost universally a good thing.

ScribeCount has several tiers of pricing:

$9.99/month – For authors earning between less than $1000 a month
$19.99/month or $185/year (approx. $15/month) – For authors earning over $1000 a month

All data and features are available at all tiers, meaning that if you are just starting out and don’t make more than $1000 yet, you can absolutely access all the features at the $9.99 tier.

Additionally, ScribeCount has a 14-day free trial.

Here is everything that I liked and didn’t like about ScribeCount:

A ton of data collected and available to authors
A great selection of platforms
You can sort by series or create custom tags to organize your data
Shows you the earnings based on marketplace, author, book, or custom tag
It doesn’t require you to log in to each and every sales platform every time you want to check them
The sheer quantity of data can be overwhelming and the UI design could be easier to understand or use
It would be nice to be able to customize the home dashboard
No free version

The Bottom Line: ScribeCount is (by a HUGE margin) my best pick for book sales tracking. Its sheer volume of data and customizability make it the clear winner for most authors.

PublishWide – Good for Large Publishers

There is one other big name in book sales tracking and that is PublishWide.

PublishWide, like ScribeCount, pulls in a lot of data so you can clearly see how your books are doing across all major platforms. It currently pulls from the following:

Apple Books

While this is still less than what ScribeCount offers, they are continuing to add new platforms.

One of my favorite features for PublishWide is that it gives you the opportunity to integrate with Amazon Ads and Facebook Ads, to give you new insights into your overall profits, and the effectiveness of your ad spend.

PublishWide also does a really good job with its design and interface, making it really clean and easy to understand.

Overall, PublishWide is a good option, but I recommend it mostly for large publishers and people with a MASSIVE number of books, as this seems to be their target audience.

The big reason why it’s not #1 on this list is largely due to a lack of customization and the pricing…

PublishWide is primarily geared towards larger organizations, going so far as to ask for those earning more than $1 million dollars to contact them about enterprise pricing.

For the rest of us, the program costs $29/month regardless of income level.

This is a MUCH more expensive option than what ScribeCount or Book Report offer, and it doesn’t offer anything that at least one of those tools offer, which is why PublishWide is not my #1 recommendation for most authors.

However, if you are interested in trying it out, they do offer a 14-day free trial.

Here’s my breakdown of the good and the bad from PublishWide:

Excellent design and understandable breakdown of the data
Gives insights on ad spend from Facebook and Amazon Ads
Good for sorting large quantities of data for people like big publishers
Offers a downloadable PC or Mac version
More expensive without the features to justify it (THIS IS A BIG CON)
Not as customizable as ScribeCount
Still lacks several publishing platforms to report on
Almost too simple in its reporting

The Bottom Line: If you’re looking for a good book tracker, PublishWide will certainly do the job. However, its features do not justify the expense, since you can easily get the same features with other platforms. The only instance where I might consider it is if I were a large publishing house and wanted to simplify big data.

Book Report – For Amazon-exclusive Authors

Before ScribeCount came along, Book Report was one of the go-to book trackers for authors. However, they have one mega-downside: they only track Amazon data.

In essence, Book Report came about because KDP’s own sales reporting dashboard was awful. However, KDP’s beta reporting dashboard has gotten better with time, and is almost (not quite) as good as what Book Report will give you.

That said, Book Report has a very clean-looking interface, and makes it really easy to see your data, and its pricing is almost the same as ScribeCount.

But if you’re wide and want to see other platforms included in Book Report, you are out of luck. You might as well look elsewhere.

Book Report has two pricing tiers:

FREE – for authors making less than $1000/month
$19/month – for authors making more than $1000/month

That puts their pricing strategy at almost exactly the same as ScribeCount, except they don’t have the middle tier of $15/month, and they also don’t have an annual tier.

For those who are already making more than $1000/month, Book Report will also provide a 14-day free trial to test it out.

Here is what I did and didn’t like about Book Report:

Nice clean interface
You can sort the data with a really nice tagging system
Does not include other sales platforms (THIS IS A HUGE CON)
Frequently requires logging into my KDP account again
Does not pull in any other data besides basic sales and Kindle page reads

The Bottom Line: I recommend Book Report only for those who are exclusive to Amazon, and only if you want a simple layout without many bells and whistles. Otherwise you can get the same benefit with ScribeCount.

BookTrakr has been around for a while, and it was originally my favorite choice. However, a lot has changed since back then.

While they are still technically around, a lot of their features are well out of date (their website still lists CreateSpace as a platform that they offer). However, it still works, so let’s talk about it.

BookTrakr covers all of the major platforms, including:

Amazon

That places it above PublishWide for the number of platforms that it integrates with.

BookTrakr also pulls in review and ranking data, making it comparable to ScribeCount in those respects.

One of the features that I used to love about BookTrakr was the fact that it would send a daily email with updates on my book sales. This was great because it meant that I didn’t have to keep logging into my KDP account for this to work, until Amazon changed the way they operate. Now you can still get the emails, but also have to frequently check that you are logged into your KDP account so BookTrakr can access the data.

Add to that the fact that the user interface seems about a decade old and I no longer recommend this tool for most authors.

For $5 per month, you'll receive daily emails about that day's book sales on all platforms and have access to their easy to use dashboard and graphs.

For $10 per month, you get the above and an update every time a new review is posted, tracking of rankings, and the ability to mark events in your graphs/analytics.

Personally, before I discontinued using BookTrakr, I only did the $5/month tier

Here’s my rundown on the good and the bad for BookTrakr:

Integrates with a lot of platforms
Offers email digests
The design and dashboard are difficult to navigate and nowhere near as intuitive as other platforms
Not easy to use
Lacking in more advanced features and customizations offered by other platforms
Emails can get a little spammy
Lacking in customer support

The Bottom Line: While BookTrakr will technically get the job done, it is not intuitive, nor does it come close to the capability that you can get with ScribeCount or PublishWide. Overall I don’t recommend it anymore.

The best book tracking app for authors is ScribeCount . With all of its many features, its level of customization, not to mention a great team backing it up, I’m excited to see where this one continues to grow.

I’ve used BookTrakr, and I’ve even used Book Report. Once I started using ScribeCount I immediately switched all my books over to that platform and have been using it ever since.

Be sure to check them out!

That said, there’s no such thing as a perfect tool for every author, which is why I would suggest PublishWide as a potential alternative. PublishWide is more expensive, but I believe it is set up better for authors and publishers who have a large number of books or who make a lot of revenue. If this describes you or your organization, you can check out PublishWide here .

For everyone else, check out ScribeCount today !

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23 thoughts on “ Best Book Sales Tracker: How to Track Book Sales Across All Platforms ”

Hey, I know this article is a few years old now, but do you still use BookTrakr? I’ve been trying Trackerboxs’ free trial and because I’m not great with all this data-number-analyses stuff I find it visually confusing. Booktrakr looks more colour-coded and user-friendly plus I like the idea of being able to track ratings and reviews. I have a few questions regarding Booktrakr:

– Does it only import eBooks sales, or does it show data for paperbacks also? – Does it import sales from the same book published with varying ISBNs? (As in, multiple editions, but in the same format, like a 1st and 2nd paperback edition with different ISBNs) – Does it cover Ingram Spark? (If not, I may just use Trackerbox for Ingram as there won’t be data for sales reviews etc anyway) – Is there some kind of NDA clause considering they get all your passwords (data leakage is a big concern these days)

In truth, I’ve fallen out of love with BookTrakr. Nothing that they did really, but because of Amazon’s changes, their system isn’t as easy or effective as it used to be. Right now, I’m actually a part of the beta testing for PublishWide, but they have a LOT of bugs to fix before it is ready. But once it is, and if it is as good as they say it will be, I’ll immediately update to reflect.

Okay fair enough. Are you still able to answer the questions I asked above regarding BookTrakr? I’ll post them again: – Does it only import eBooks sales, or does it show data for paperbacks also? – Does it import sales from the same book published with varying ISBNs? (As in, multiple editions, but in the same format, like a 1st and 2nd paperback edition with different ISBNs) – Does it cover Ingram Spark? (If not, I may just use Trackerbox for Ingram as there won’t be data for sales reviews etc anyway) – Is there some kind of NDA clause considering they get all your passwords (data leakage is a big concern these days)

Thanks again

1. both 2. It can so long as you give it access to the accounts that publish them 3. Not sure 4. Probably – but not sure but you can ask them or comb through their Service Agreement. My take on this is they probably have a CYA clause like most but aren’t going to start stealing your passwords to target the books. Plus it would be obvious if they changed your payment information and such. Why destroy your viable software business, in order to get yourself in legal battles, because it would leave a trail and your switching of account information would take 1.5 months before you get paid….which most of thatwould be stopped before then. So, I don’t worry about that myself.

Okay, thank you, I will give Booktrakr a go!

Sounds good.

Great article, but It is been a few years since it was posted. Do you still use BookTrackr and are you still happy with it?

Currently, yes. Because I have a lot of sales on other markets as well.

Can you please let us know if anyone has been seeing a serious difference in their kdp sales or suspecting KDP is not reporting all the sales? I have heard rumors that when marketing was retargeted from KDP`s Amazon page to an ASIN of another provider to Amazon for the same book, the sales skyrocketed leading one to suspect they were not receiving all of their sales from KDP to begin with. Can you please try this out and let us know. It is odd that you made so much more money on Create space, than via Amazon KDP for the same book. Have you heard the same rumor that KDP is not reporting all the sales they are receiving or there is a glitch in their reporting? My ads are stating 1000s of clicks to purchase the book, but then KDP is only reporting less than 100 sold.

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Tracking Kindle Sales with Book Report

This is all well and good, but I find the interface to be rather lackluster.

Enter Book Report. Book Report is a free app (app.getbookreport.com) that adds a hot button to your browser. When you first activate it, you may need to sign in to your KDP account in order for Book Report to sync to it, but usually once you’ve done that, Book Report operates independently and you don’t need to keep your KDP interface open to use it. I love Book Report. It’s easy to use, has lots of fun bells and whistles, and is visually appealing. I open mine first thing every morning and keep it open all day long. It updates constantly, so the numbers you see are always accurate. Matter of fact, the tab at the top of the page keeps a running total of today’s sales so you can see that even if you’re working on a different tab in your browser.

The default page comes up with several quick visual aids to give you an immediate grasp of how your books are doing. The first one is Top Earners . This shows you at a glance what your top six books are, in order of sales.

Next is Earnings by Day . This is a line graph that shows you your earnings through pages read in KDP Select (blue) and your royalties for sales (red). If you’ve had a recent promo, it’s easy to see the spike that should ensue (as well as the cliff that inevitably follows).

The last quick reference is Earnings by Marketplace . This shows you how your book sales break out over the various Amazon markets. In the example below, Amazon.com, of course, is the US; Amazon.co.uk is the United Kingdom; Amazon.ca is Canada; and Amazon.de is Germany, and of course there are many other marketplaces not shown on my example.

Details follow in a list showing each book and its earnings, pages read, royalties, etc. This list, plus all the charts and graphs above, can be customized by date, book, and marketplace.

The fun stuff enters in beyond all the typical sales information on the home page. Near the top of the page is a menu with six tabs: Today , Historical , Ranks , Reviews , Books , and Settings . Today , obviously, shows you the above results for today only. Historical gives you the option of customizing the above graphs by whatever timeline you choose: this month, last month, last 90 days, the year, lifetime, or custom. Rank shows your top three books in the Paid Kindle Store, plus how that rank may have changed up or down today. Below that is a graph to show your highest-ranking books over time, and below that is a Launch Comparison graph, contrasting the stats for several books of your choice from their launch date. This could be especially useful if you’re trying out different promotional strategies for different books.

Next is the Reviews tab, which I like to check fairly often because it shows your latest positive review, which book it’s for, and how many days ago it was posted. Below that is a chart for Reviewer Retention, which shows how many reviewers reviewed other books of yours before or after a given book (which you choose). That’s followed by a list of all your books, how many reviews each has received and the average rating for each.

The Books tab simply shows you all your books with ASINS, and the Settings tab allows you to customize all this data in a zillion ways.

As you can see, there’s a lot going on, and it’s all easily accessible and fun to play with. I find the information on Book Report to be infinitely more useful and interesting than the dry data on the KDP page. If you haven’t tried Book Report, you might want to check it out. It’s free, it’s fun, and it’s a great way to keep on top of your stats.

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An interesting app, but when I tried to install it with my Google Chrome browser it wouldn’t allow it and gave me a ‘Couldn’t update data in background’ error message. When i tried trouble shooting, it mentioned having to install an extension to my browser, but didn’t name it or give instructions on how to do it, so I finally gave up. Any suggestions on what might have gone wrong?

Charles, I’m sorry you’re having difficulty. When I added mine, it gave me the option to add the app to Chrome or Firefox, and I’ve done both. It’s been a long time since I did this, but I believe I just had to choose which browser I wanted the extension added to, and as soon as I clicked that button, it did it. It adds the extension as a small, rainbow-colored open circle in the upper right-hand corner of the browser. Mine sits just to the right of the URL address window. You might check your browser and see if it’s there. If not, I’d suggest getting in touch with them at [email protected] .

Knowing about that little rainbow is the secret! I had initial trouble, but the rainbow helped. Thanks so much for sharing this. The app inspires me to get crackin.

It’s free until you earn more than $1,000 a month in royalties. Which, if you spent nearly $1,000 a month in advertising to get (grrr), isn’t going to leave you a lot of money to pay for Book Report. It is very cool, though.

Sandra, I have noticed on the Settings page, down at the bottom, there is an option to subscribe to Book Report for $19/month or $190/year, but I have never done that. I have not, so far, cracked the $1000/month ceiling, so I’ve never been required to pay. I guess that’s the good news/bad news, huh?

Very helpful, Melissa, thank you!

You’re welcome, Melinda. I love this thing.

Thanks, Melissa.

Extremely helpful. Thanks.

Thanks for the info, Melissa, I installed it without a problem. Now if they’d add d2d & kobo 🙂

Glad you found it easy, David. Maybe drop them a line about the other two?

I’ve always found the KDP info “lackluster” for sure, and that’s being polite about it. I’ll check this out. thanks, Melissa.

Well, yes, I was trying to be diplomatic. Certainly less than inspiring.

Great article, Melissa. I use Bookreport too, and like it. KDP is beta testing a new report page that gives some of the same information (link is to FAQs on the beta version):

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/GVTTXHKHVPAPBEDQ#faq

It’s not quite as comprehensive, though, but it’s great for at-a-glance sales/pagereads and various other reports. Hopefully, they’ll add more bells and whistles. If they do, I might cancel my subscription to BR.

I think KDP could certainly take a few pages from BR’s format. I’ve gotten an email about the new KDP page, but haven’t seen it on my dashboard yet.

BTW, what benefit do you see from subscribing? Or is it just to donate to future research?

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Simply doesn't work with some authentication issue.

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How to use google docs for a book report

Use google docs for a book report.

Open Docs app and click the plus on the bottom right. Then click Choose Template.

Scroll down a few times until you see the Education category, and then find the Book Report by Reading Rainbow template. Click on it.

Now you can scroll through this document that's already formatted nicely. It contains good ideas and suggestions, too.

Delete and add text and images as needed throughout the document.

Our students use iOS creation apps for book report alternatives (Book Creator, ThingLink, Padlet, etc.), but this seems like a kid-friendly way to practice more of a typed/essay book report format.

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15 Creative and digital book report ideas that will get your students excited to read

Not all students are excited to read a book. So how can you make reading a book more engaging and fun? This is a huge challenge for most teachers, so I hope I can help you out!

Here’s what you’ll find in this blog post (click on the title if you want to jump to the section directly)

5 tips to get your students excited about reading

15 creative and digital book report lesson plans (free & ready to use!)
The complete collection of book report lesson ideas in one assignment (your students get to choose!)

Instructions on how to use these digital book report lesson activities

Before you dive into the book reports, you have to get your students excited about reading first. In this previous post about reading, I’ve listed 10 tips that will encourage your students to read . I’ve come up with 5 more amazing tips! Here we go:

1. Use AR apps

Here are a few apps with amazing storylines and AR books.

Wonderscope , for example, is an excellent storytelling tool. It uses augmented reality to transform ordinary places into real-time stories. Students also learn to read with the app. They ask questions to the characters in the story and listen to the characters’ answers.
The Ghostkeeper’s journal and field guide : This book is an immersive adventure for readers aged 10 and up, offering several AR experiences to enhance the storyline. These are accessed via a mobile app “ Ghost-o-Matic ”.
Bookful creates an engaging reading experience and brings stories and characters in books to life. The app holds the world’s largest 3D/AR library with hundreds of titles from leading publishers and brands such as: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, DK’s Encyclopedia, and children’s favorites such as Barbie, My Little Pony, Thomas & Friends, Transformers, and The Smurfs.

2. Escape lessons

Here are 3 fun ready-to-use escape lessons to spark your students’ joy of reading:

A Halloween Murder : Let your students investigate the murder of the victim: Brat Spook. When they find the murderer, they get their “inspector” badge. Let them look for evidence in the murder scene, talk to suspects, analyze lab results, and so on!
Finding Rudolph : Save Christmas by helping Santa find back Rudolph. Students go through different challenges, talk to eye-witnesses, and follow Rudolph through a winter maze, so Santa can deliver all the presents to the children.
Easter Bunny Substitute : Can your students find a good Easter Bunny replacement? In the last breakout game for the classroom, the Easter Bunny is hurt, so your students need to interview the possible applicants and take tests to replace the Easter Bunny themselves. If they succeed in the challenges, they get an Easter Bunny substitute badge.

3. Storytelling

If you bring cultural elements into your lessons by telling a story, your students will be more eager to learn. Storytelling makes students want to “live the story”. And they do this by reading it. If your story is strong enough, your students will love learning and reading. They will even remember the lesson content better.

Here’s a fun & ready-to-use example: The life of William Shakespeare

4. First chapters

5. Books & sleepovers

You can even add different parts to your sleepover. For example, let students read their favorite passage in a book of choice out loud, and 1 hour before bedtime, all your students take their book and read in silence. Or how about creating cozy themed corners? Fantasy, science fiction, detectives,… When your students are reading in themed corners, they get the full experience. They can even dress up as a character in their book whilst reading.

15 Creative and digital book report lesson plans

Step 1: Get your students excited about reading. ✅ Step 2: make sure they don’t lose their interest when you’re announcing the book report assignment! ☑️ This part can be demotivating.

As the lower grade students often still get fun book report assignments, the higher grade students often get a dull worksheet where they have to describe the characters and give a summary. Change up your book report assignments with these creative, free & ready-to-use lesson ideas.

Take a look at all these ready-to-use and free digital book report activities. They’re all made with BookWidgets . You can even make exercises like these yourself in your own BookWidgets account.

Keep on reading to find out how to use these exercises in your lessons.

How did your students experience the book? Let them fill the glasses with drawings of the storyline/the book. The glasses represent the view of the students. Students can get really creative and use the toolbar at the bottom to draw and type.

You can ask your students to present their book report artworks to the other students as well. This way, your students can explain what’s on their drawing.

2. Bookworm

Creative book report - bookworm worksheet

3. Timeline

This interactive book report asks your students to create a timeline of the story. When did what happen, chronologically? The have to add the biggest events in the story to the timeline.

4. Comic book

In this book report exercise, your students have to write a comic book based upon the book they’ve just read. When they click on the “start” icon, they can choose fitting text balloons to go with their story.

Here are three other fun websites that let students create comic books: Storyboard That , Comic Life , and Toonytool . They already give you creative templates and drawings. This is a bit easier for students. This way, they don’t have to start from scratch.

5. Character portrait

Creative book report - Character portrait

6. Randomness task

Just… add a little spice. I’ve turned the ordinary book report task, where students have to describe characters, the setting, plot, etc., into an exciting one. Your students don’t know yet what they’ll have to describe. They spin the randomness wheel and their task appears. The fun thing about this one is that all of your students will write a different book report.

7. Book cover

Here, students get to be creative and invent their own book cover (front and back) of the book they just read. Or maybe just a cover for of a piece of text you’ve read out loud. They can use the whiteboard tools: pencil, type tool, switch colors, add images, etc.

8. Character family tree

This digital mind map exercise allows your students to add boxes with text and connect them to each other. This is perfect for a book report activity focusing on the characters in their book.

9. Facebook Profile

Modern days call for modern book report lesson ideas. Image the main character having a Facebook profile. What would be on it? That’s exactly what your students have to figure out here. Create a Facebook profile about the main character.

10. Book Collage

Here, students have to add 10 pictures or images that have to do with the book. They can do so by clicking on the photo icon and adding images into their collage.

11. Mirror selfie

In this creative book report, students have to dress up like the character in their book, including holding 3 attributes that refer to the personality of the main character. They have to take a picture or mirror selfie of themselves dressed up, and add that picture to the whiteboard. You can ask them to come forward and present their images and explain why they’ve chosen those specific attributes.

The fun thing about all of these exercises is that they work on smartphones as well. So in this case, students can just open the exercise on their smartphones, take a mirror selfie with their phones and add it to the mirror in the digital whiteboard exercise.

12. Email to the author

Your students have the chance to write a friendly email or letter to the author of the book they just read. Students have to share:

their opinion;
the character in the book they liked most, and why;
their favorite part of the book and why;
questions that they have about the book.

If you have an email address of the author, ask your students to submit their works to you, the teacher, first. After having given feedback on their letters, they can make some changes and send it over to the author.

If you have the author’s postal address, it’s much more fun to write a classic letter.

Creative book report - Letter to the author

13. Conversation between characters

There is something called a “texting thumb” or a “smartphone pinky”. This shows that students like to send texts. A lot of them. So why not include it in your book report lesson plan? In this digital book report, students have to invent a conversation between two characters in their book.

Creative book report - Conversation with a character

14. Movie vs. Book

A lot of books have a movie version too. If your students choose a book that also has a movie, it’s interesting to let your students make a comparison. With this book report exercise, you’re also sure your students actually read the book instead of just watching the movie and write a summary of the movie and not the book.

15. Emoji summary

The last exercise is also one students can relate to. Nowadays, we use emojis after almost every sentence when we’re communicating with friends. Emojis also have a strong meaning and can be used to express feelings or say something without actually saying it.

The complete collection of book report lesson ideas in one assignment

All these book report exercises are so much fun and yet they don’t take up a lot of time. Perhaps they just ask your students to only describe a certain part about the book. Cue… the planner widget.

With this type of BookWidgets activity, you can combine several lessons into one. You can let your students take matters into their own hands and choose which book report activities they’d like to finish.

It’s actually pretty easy. Your students read the instructions in the instructions widget and then start adding at least three book report activities to their planner. They finish the activities, submit them to their teacher, check off their planner, and that’s it!

Above, you can find the 15 ready-to-use book report activities. You can use these lesson examples for free. Since they’re all made with BookWidgets, I’ve listed them in this BookWidgets group . Here’s what you need to do:

Click on this link . It will immediately bring you to the group with all of the book report activities. If you don’t have a BookWidgets account yet, you’ll have to sign up first for free .
Duplicate all the book report activities. Click on the settings wheel , select all widgets , click on the settings wheel again, choose duplicate selected widgets . Choose where you want to save the activities in your BookWidgets account.
Go to your saved book report lessons. You can now click on the black dropdown arrow next to the ‘Show’ button of a particular exercise and select Edit . You can make some changes to this activity (if you want). If it’s perfect for you, click on Share in the upper right corner.
Share this link with your students. When they click on it, they can fill it out. A lot of the book report examples above have been made with BookWidgets’ Whiteboard widget, in which students can use the tool menu at the bottom to switch tools (draw, type,…), and to switch colors. When done, they can submit the book reports to you by clicking on the envelope in the upper right corner.
As a teacher, you go to “Grades & reporting” in BookWidgets to find your students’ answers.

Of course, now that you’ve got your own BookWidgets account, you can also create book report activities or other assignments yourself!

Attention! Once your free trial runs out, you’ll only be able to use the widgets you’ve already finished/shared with students. While your BookWidgets account will still work and you’ll still get your students’ results with the free BookWidgets version, you won’t be able to duplicate widgets nor create new widgets yourself anymore.

So that’s it! I hope these lesson ideas are useful for your classroom or at least give you lots of new ideas for your book report lessons! You can even create ones yourself!

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How to Write a Book Report in 6 Steps

Learning how to write a book report is not just something that is going to help us out throughout the school. As we found out here at Basmo, writing book reports is also quite a great way to exercise our analytical and writing skills, and it can benefit us tremendously in retaining more information from what we read.

Writing a book report is mostly a technical endeavor and requires generally very little creativity, which means you don’t need a special talent or inspiration to get it done. As long as you learn the rules and how to do a book report, you can easily take full advantage of the benefits it can provide for you.

What is a book report?

A book report is defined as an essay written with the purpose of discussing or describing the contents of a certain book. It is usually part of class assignments in school and serves the purpose of pushing students to enhance their analytical thinking abilities and objectively describe the information from certain books.

The process of writing a book report is somewhat similar to writing a book review . What differentiates the two is the ultimate purpose of each essay. A book review is generally written to describe and evaluate to a certain extent the quality of the book in question, while a book report is strictly an objective description of the contents. The writer’s personal thoughts or opinions should not be a part of the latter, but the book report should accurately describe the particular book it is about.

Writing book reports is therefore a pretty handy exercise. You get to train your analytical skills, you push yourself to read with a higher degree of attention knowing that you will need to use the information you are reading later in the report, and you also exercise your writing skills to a certain extent. And what is even more important, writing a book report means you need to figure out a way to let your feelings and personal beliefs aside and focus on the objective information, which trains your mental abilities.

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How to write a good book report?

Of course, there’s a difference between a book report and a good book report. A good report contains all the necessary information about the book, has a clear and easy-to-follow structure that actually makes sense, and provides the reader with a clear picture of what the book is about. Many of the skills required to write a really good book report come with practice and experience, so you shouldn’t be worried or disappointed if your first couple of reports are subpar.

To make the process of learning how to write a book report the right way easier, here is our step-by-step guide.

1. Understand the assignment

Whether you need to write a book report as a school assignment, as a task from your book club, or because you want to exercise your skills, you need to have a clear picture of the expectations. If your assignment comes with instructions, you need to read and understand them before you even pick up the book.

That way you can focus while reading on what you know you will need and you will have a clear picture of what your book report will need to contain. Even if it’s just you who is going to later use or analyze the report, you still need to make sure that you have a clear plan.

2. Read the book

Once you have a clear picture of what your book report should look like, how long it should be, and what you should focus on, it’s time to start reading. As you would expect, you should pay extra attention to everything you are reading. This active reading process can be quite daunting, but it is essential for the success of your book report.

Reading actively or critically involves a lot more effort on your part. You should be constantly looking for important details, you should pay attention to the way the book is written, how the author sets the scene for the action, how suspense is built, and what themes appear in the book.

Trying to stay alert at all times while reading can be rather tiring, so feel free to take breaks as often as you need. Becoming aware of the small details as well as understanding the big picture and gaining a good understanding of what the book actually stands for and represents in its own genre is what can make the difference between a book report that is good enough and one that actually stands out as extraordinary.

3. Take notes while reading

Of course, remembering everything that is actually important while reading the book is not always possible. That is why taking notes as you read the book your report is supposed to be about is usually a good idea. That way you can jot down what you think is important, make notes of the important characters and events, and even start scribbling an outline for your upcoming report.

If this isn’t the first time you’re taking notes while reading, you probably already know that using a pen and paper is not ideal. Using a reading tracking app like Basmo is though.

Basmo comes featured-packed to the brim and one of the most relevant advantages it provides you with is the fact that you can easily take notes while reading with minimal effort. Every time a reading session is ongoing, you can simply start typing and your notes will automatically remain saved within the book you are reading.

Moreover, the notes can be easily formatted and personalized however you see fit. This means that they will be easy to read, well-organized, and relevant in exactly the way you need them to be. You can use different fonts, colors, and text sizes so the most relevant information is easy to find.

4. Write and stick to the structure

Now that the book is read and the notes are safely saved within the Basmo app (hopefully), it’s time to create a skeleton for the book report. What to write in a book report? What is the format of a book report?

To make sure your report contains all the necessary information, we found at Basmo that the below is the ideal book report format you should use.

Introduction : this should be an informative first paragraph, where you should mention the book title, author’s name, genre, when the book was written, and in a couple of words, what it is about.

Describe where the action takes place: Next, it’s time to describe the setting – in what period the action takes place and where. Does that influence the way the story evolves or how the characters act? The “where” and “when” are essential in a book report, so make sure you include complete and accurate information in this section.

Summarize the action : Now it’s time to talk about the “what”. Describe the action of the book, and what it is actually about in two or three paragraphs. You should make sure to include some details, but it’s not necessary to go too in-depth. A couple of essential pieces of information should suffice, you are not expected to actually write a summary of the book.

Talk about the characters : Obviously, going over the characters is extremely important in a book report. You should mention who the main character or characters are, how they interact, how their personalities affect the way the story unfolds, and mention a couple of details about them. A short description of the important characters in the book is essential in your book report.

Explore the themes: This is where you should dive a bit deeper into the meaning of the book. What themes does the author explore, and what genre is the book a part of? Mention certain influences that seem obvious when reading the book.

Comment on writing style: Analyze how the book is written, but stay objective. The purpose is not to share your personal opinion, but to provide a certain level of technical analysis of the text. Does the author use long, detailed descriptions? Is the book written in a dynamic fashion, with a lot of dialogue? Is it easy to read? This is also where you get to share some information about the writing technique, and the literary currents that seem to have influenced the author, without actually criticizing the work

Draw objective conclusions : In the end, you should add some final thoughts, in a concise and objective manner.

5. Fill in the blanks and add quotes

You should never skip re-reading your book report to make sure you included all the necessary information. Also, it is always a good idea to add some quotes from the book wherever they seem relevant. Among the team members here at Basmo, the prevalent use of quotes in book reports is usually in the section where characters are described.

Speaking of Basmo, one thing you should also know about the app is that it can be quite helpful when it comes to saving quotes too. It comes with a dedicated feature that not only encourages you to save your favorite quotes while reading with minimal effort but also makes it a smooth and fulfilling experience.

To save a quote, you can either write a note manually and convert it into a quote afterward, or you can use the integrated text scanner which allows you to basically scan a page of the book and extract the text automatically. The quotes can then be edited and formatted however you see fit, or you can even turn them into images to share on social media platforms.

6. Proofread

Check your paper and make sure to correct any mistakes you may have made. Making spelling mistakes is generally inevitable, so never skip this step.

How Basmo makes things easier

Using a reading tracking app like Basmo makes the process of writing a book report a lot smoother. As I mentioned above, taking notes while reading is amazingly simple and efficient with Basmo.

Moreover, with Basmo you can set a clear schedule for your reading sessions so you always remember to leave some time aside for your favorite activity. Not only that, but you can also keep a reading journal so you can constantly keep writing down the important information you think you will need for your book reports.

Basmo encourages you to read mindfully and to set clear goals for your reading habits. That way you will become the best reader you can be.

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Final thoughts

Learning how to write a book report is very important both for your education and as a mental exercise. Use Basmo to achieve the best results with minimal effort.

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Book report apps

These apps can help kids write or embellish their book reports.

Don’t Feed the Worry Bug by Andi Green is both a book and an app. The book is said to be for 5-9 year olds but it can help people of any age with anxiety. The book has a teacher guide and neat stuffed Winces and Worry Bugs to add another dimension to the story.

Wince - don't feed the WorryBug $2.99 The WorryWoo Monsters are a first-of-a-kind series, written and illustrated by Andi Green. Through whimsical illustrations and huggable plushies emotions themselves are turned into lovable quirky characters that embark on delightful journeys of self-awareness. Visual cues flash for the child to take him or her to the next scene. My favorite activity is the worry recorder: Tape your worry and it will turn into scraps of paper that are eaten by the Worry Bug. This helps the child to understand their worries, hear what they are and watch them disappear.

Kids Book Report $.99 This is a very simple book report template. For each book, the student enters details such as setting, main characters, problems, solutions and how the child liked the book. Upon completion of the book report, users can send a PDF copy via email.

StoryBuddy $4.99 StoryBuddy allows kids to create, read, and share stories using the multi-touch feature of the iPad. The app provides the ability to enrich a book report using added images, photos, digital painting, customizable text and more.

Venn Diagram $2.99 This app allows many shapes and colors. You can overlap your circles, compare and contrast, resize your sheet. The goal of a Venn Diagram is to show similarities and differences. The diagrams can be adapted for individual classrooms.

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CREATIVE WRITING SPEAKS VOLUMES! What have your kids read during the holidays? A funny book, Novel, a fiction book? Have they watched a movie worth talking about, have they played a game that fascinates them? Well, they can write about it in the form of a book report.

Summarizing a book into a report speaks volumes. It tells a teacher and a parent (if they are paying keen attention) some cool things about their kids. It shows the kid’s ability to comprehend stuff: story or material that they came across ( via a book, movie, games, plays, libraries, school, fun time etc ), It shows their understanding of emotions, some fun facts they read, characters they came across and relate to. They try to figure out what the author is trying to convey/where the story is heading.

When they are asked to write a book report (which is part of school curriculum) by the teacher or a parent, they will need to articulate what they read, summarize in a nutshell facts in the book, characters in the story line, and importantly what they thought about the book, and why and what they found interesting.

Teachers can also gain a insight into kids likes & dislikes, how much they understood the story/material, how the kids creative writing is developing.

Please! Please! encourage your boys and girls to write about anything and everything they come across like trips to the zoo, stories they read, about a movie they watched and what they liked in it etc …

The book report app enables kids to write following details:

book information
title, author
when and where the story takes place,
who are the main characters
what was the main problem
what was the solution
How does the kid like the book

The app would convert book report into a PDF document. The book report can be shared via email.

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In December 2023, BookmarkED—an app designed to “help” educators, librarians, and parents navigate book bans in school libraries—rebranded. Now OnShelf, the app has been making its way into schools in Texas. Freedom of Information Requests obtained new information about how the app is getting into districts in Texas and how the app alerts users to so-called “banned books” in the district. The app is a student data privacy nightmare, and it undermines the professional capabilities of trained teacher librarians in educational institutions.

What Is BookmarkED/OnShelf? A Little About The App’s History

Founded by Steve Wandler, who works in the education technology space, BookmarkED aims to “empower parents to personalize school libraries.” It aims to ensure that parents get to decide the “individual literary journey for their children, based on their personal values and interests,” while teachers and librarians can keep “confidently recommending and providing more personalized books to their students, knowing precisely the learning outcomes they will achieve.” The technology helps libraries “simply and efficiently navigate the ever-changing challenged books landscape.”

BookmarkED soft launched their product during a Texas State Senate Committee on Education meeting on March 30, 2023, two and a half months before Texas passed the READER Act . Wandler noted that the app was developed while working with a superintendent in the state. That superintendent, Jason Cochran, is one of the owners of the app , and as of writing, works as the superintendent of Krum Independent School District. Prior to Krum, Cochran was superintendent at Eastland Independent School District.

Wandler testified before the Texas Senate early in 2023 in support of SB 13. SB 13 aimed to create local advisory committees, primarily composed of local parents, who would be given the power to determine which books could and could not be in the district libraries. SB 13 would legislate the “parental rights” movement. Although that bill is still listed with the State Affairs committee, its future status is unclear, if outright irrelevant. Much of what SB 13 hoped to accomplish is or will be achievable through the READER Act.

At the 4:27:00 mark , you can listen to Wandler talk about why he supports SB 13. He reads through the same talking points as the company’s, noting that his app will make it easier on districts since they will no longer need to go through the “arduous” work of reviewing titles.

BookmarkED spent $80,000 on lobbyists in favor of SB 13. Convenient, since such a bill would make their product a “necessary” purchase for districts statewide.

BookmarkED Debuts with Texas School Officials, Markets Themselves as a Book Ban Solution

BookmarkED made an appearance at the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) the first week of October 2023. The app’s website has kept a blog updating followers on state legislation, and they have used it as an opportunity to position themselves as a solution to being in compliance with the READER Act. They list six primary benefits of BookmarkED/OnShelf, with several bullet points beneath each. Those benefits are: Parental Empowerment Through OnShelf, Streamlining Library Management, A Nuanced and Inclusive Strategy, Enhancing Communication with Parents, Safe and Inclusive Libraries, and Seamless Compliance and Continuous Improvement. The full blog post is here , but in the event they remove it from the site, you can access the .pdf of the post here .

The company’s efforts to market themselves as a solution to book bans ramped up in 2024. A new blog post published in January highlighted all of the benefits of the OnShelf app. Again, the full blog post is here , with the .pdf available here . Among the highlights of districts investing in OnShelf listed this time are:

In the face of this multifaceted matter, Bookmarked emerges as a comprehensive solution, championing the right to read and encouraging education without endorsing any specific ideology. By creating a systematic and process-driven approach, OnShelf by Bookmarked helps address content concerns in a fair and standardized manner: Content Concerns: Challenges and data are meticulously collected through a standardized process, fostering transparency and consistency in addressing concerns raised about specific literary works. Verified Data Districts: Districts gain access to Bookmarked Verify, a tool designed to provide insights into the context and history of book challenges. This empowers decision-makers with data to make informed decisions within school districts. Trusted Library Districts: Bookmarked HealthCheck serves as a valuable resource to ensure the maintenance of book diversity and effective stewardship, upholding the integrity of library collections within trusted districts. Parental Involvement: Bookmarked OnShelf empowers parents to actively curate their child’s library experience, ensuring personalized literary journeys while maintaining a protective framework against undue censorship. Protective Measures: By implementing Bookmarked, books remain on shelves, parents are engaged, and districts are shielded from undue pressures, fostering a harmonious environment of diverse literary voices.

Just a couple of weeks later, two tales of BookmarkED’s plan, goals, and execution emerge.

Let’s Head to Llano, Texas & Learn Who Helps Fund BookmarkED/OnShelf

Llano County’s public library has been the center of years’ of dispute related to book banning. You can read a rundown in this piece about the current lawsuit lodged against the library board and city leadership from a former head librarian in the district. That librarian was fired for refusing to remove LGBTQ+ books from the public library shelves.

But the BookmarkED/OnShelf story isn’t about the Llano County Public Library. It’s at the school district, where on February 26, 2024, the school board heard from the company about the power of the app for use in its district. It was listed under the Superintendent’s Administrative Reports on the evening’s agenda; because the March meeting has not yet occurred, full minutes from that board meeting are unavailable. You can access the entire recording of the BookmarkED/OnShelf portion of the meeting . Per the recording, the district was in the process of being onboarded with the software, with a full launch anticipated in the spring.

BookmarkED/OnShelf met with district leadership on February 7 to demonstrate the software. Among the highlights of the presentation given by Teela Watson are that the software includes a space for content tags of books in the system, and that parents have the opportunity to browse or search the school library’s catalog and identify titles or categories of books that they do not want their child to access. Then, when the child might try to borrow the book from the library, the person checking out the title would scan the book into BookmarkED/OnShelf, and if the child can’t borrow it, then they would be told they cannot borrow it. Sounds simple enough, right?

The example given is about a child trying to check out a book about horses. If the parents have decided “there’s some characters in the book that the parents have said ‘I don’t really want this type of book coming home’,” then the app would recommend other similar books on similar themes to the person trying to borrow the book.

What’s meant by “some kind of characters in the book that the parents don’t want coming home” is not described. But anyone who has paid attention even a lick since 2020 knows that means queer characters or characters of color. So, the software would ban the child from a book about brown people who raise ponies and offer them a book that’s only about white people who raise ponies.

Is that censorship, or is it racism? Or is it racism via censorship?

Watson explains that every book checked out by a child is then reported to the parent via notification and parents then get a synopsis of the book. Those synopsis are not the ones provided by a publisher. They’re synopses created by artificial intelligence which is “reading” the thousands and thousands of books being uploaded to the BookmarkED/OnShelf app. Parents also get questions sent to them—up to 9—that will encourage discussion about the book with their child. Again: these are created by artificial intelligence software, not actual humans with degrees or backgrounds in education or literacy.

The same lines about how the software is up-to-the-minute on current book bans and challenges across the country shared in the initial discussion of the app back in summer 2023 comes out here, too. The speaker notes that the PEN banned books list is “only” updated once a year, so the information is not as current or accurate as theirs is (this is not true—PEN’s list is updated more than once a year, and more, Dr. Tasslyn Magnusson has been keeping as up-to-date a list as humanly possible since fall 2021).

BookmarkED/OnShelf uses artificial intelligence to “scan the internet daily” to find out about challenges and bans in the country. The AI then sends a weekly email to librarians who are using BookmarkED/OnShelf to let them know the health of their collection. If their catalog has no banned or challenged books, they’re good. If their catalog does have any banned books, then they’re prompted to take action on it.

In other words, the app is compiling the information put together by the likes of me via Literary Activism, Dr. Magnusson via PEN and EveryLibrary, the American Booksellers Association, the American Library Association, and others who do it all by hand. AI from this company undermines that work by stealing it and selling it back to parents and educational institutions as a solution to the manufactured crisis.

BookmarkED/OnShelf doesn’t tell the library what to do if a book pops up that’s been challenged or banned. But “you might want to review it!” is what the email prompt suggests. So any book in any part of the country being challenged or banned in your collection is now at risk of being reviewed for that status. Not only does this undermine the entire process of formalizing book challenges and collection management in librarianship, but it also makes quiet/soft/silent censorship conditions thrive .

The BookmarkED/OnShelf app allows librarians to pre-ban books by encouraging them to upload the list of books they’re thinking about purchasing to see if those titles have been challenged or banned elsewhere in the country. “We’re just going to give you as much data you can stand,” Watson laughs, attempting to explain the “book intelligence company’s” stance not as belittling trained, educated, and experienced library workers, but instead as support of them. Fitting that the presenter likens this to going in armed while making a decision. How quickly we want to support the banning of books but not the regulation of firearms which have actually caused bloodshed in schools.

But call a spade a spade: this is a tool that doesn’t trust library workers to do their job. Library workers can Google a book title after they have read professional reviews of it. Library workers do not need an app that tells them what they should know before they buy it. Especially an app that is not made by library workers—it’s a “book intelligence company” whose founders are someone in educational technology and in being a school superintendent. Those positions are librarian roles.

Perhaps the biggest takeaway from the meeting is the funding sources for the project. At the 23:00 mark, Watson notes that they’re not only “huge on data privacy,” but that they are backed by the Charles Butt Foundation —an organization tied to the HEB grocery store chain in Texas—as well as Amazon Web Services. Apparently, both organizations thought the app was “great.” Amazon Web Services is apparently helping provide backend support, including the artificial intelligence being used to steal work being done by others determine what books are challenged and banned across the country. The third partner mentioned is Moak Casey , an educational consulting firm based in Austin.

Now Onto Abilene Independent School District (AISD)

A new blog post on BookmarkED/OnShelf’s website landed February 16, 2024, just a week prior to the Llano meeting, titled “ Empowering Educational Excellence: Abilene ISD’s Success with OnShelf .” That blog post is no longer on the website, but it is available in full via .pdf .

Also on BookmarkED/OnShelf’s website was an invitation to attend a webinar by Teela Watson and Abilene ISD’s Executive Director for Innovation and Program Development, Karen Munoz.

Image advertising a webinar between Abilene ISD and BookmarkED.

The event has since been postponed.

From the blog post:

Upon implementation, Abilene received a notification for 300+ books in one of their libraries that were previously challenged or banned, providing Abilene with a comprehensive understanding of potential content concerns. This allowed the school to make informed decisions, paving the way for thoughtful conversations within the administration and with parents.

What were the 300+ books the district had in their libraries that were of concern? On February 28, 2024, I sent the district a Freedom of Information Request (FOIA) to find out. What unraveled was not a list of books that popped up as problematic per the AI data BookmarkED/OnShelf had but instead, a wealth of meetings held between and among employees in the district that helped guide them through implementing the system in their district.

Conversations between AISD and BookmarkED/OnShelf began in the summer of 2023. When exactly is hard to ascertain, but per emails, Munoz requested that several members of the district’s leadership team attend an August 17, 2023, meeting “regarding a tool that would be beneficial for us to use. This tool is new and the wonderful thing about it is that we get to provide feedback to build the best possible tool to help in our libraries but also to bring literacy back to the home.” The meeting was set up on the 15th, and several members invited needed to reschedule library meetings to attend. One of the libraries needed to be closed during this time frame.

The next day, Watson reconnected with Munoz, thankful that the library staff had bought into the program. Watson included in the email a notice about data confidentiality with BookmarkED/OnShelf, which you can read here . Though the contract states it would protect the privacy and confidential nature of the information, several lines stand out as concerning: “Vendor agrees that it will maintain the confidentiality of personally identifiable student information contained in the District data at all times and will keep the data in a secure location. Vendor shall restrict access to personally identifiable student information to only its employees and representatives with a need to access the data for the purpose of providing the services specified in the Contract.” So anyone who works for the company and their representatives with a need for the data can access it fully. Someone like Wandler has access to student data, as does Cochran, who, as you might recall, is a superintendent at Krum ISD.

That email also contained the contract between BookmarkED/OnShelf and Abilene ISD. The district would get the software for free in exchange for being a test facility. The contract is here .

On Tuesday, August 22, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for AISD sent Munoz a copy of a contract needing to be signed by BookmarkED/OnShelf that addressed data privacy and confidentiality for students. In that email, the CTO noted the following:

Normally, we are able to find a school district in Texas with an agreement already in place with a vendor and then we use Exhibit E to piggyback on the agreement they already have in place. There is not one in place with BookmarkED with any school district in Texas or any other state, so we are the first. […] Their DCA covers some student data protection (and it needs to be signed as part of the district agreement), but not all that is needed to protect the student and the district. The attached needs to be signed to add to the Texas Student Data Privacy Alliance. It will have to be renewed every 3 years.

Abilene ISD was the first district in the state to enter into an official agreement with BookmarkED/OnShelf, and the district served as the basis for the presentation given just days later in Llano. Munoz sent the agreement over to BookmarkED immediately, but it would be another week before the district heard anything back from BookmarkED/OnShelf. Munoz emailed Watson on August 28 asking for a status update, to which Watson replied that they were having it looked over with their lawyer.

Ten more days go by with silence. Munoz once again emails Watson asking for an update on the signing of the district-required contract. The contract that the CTO officer noted was the first in the state with BookmarkED/OnShelf.

It was not until September 12, 2023, that the form came back into the hands of AISD. The next day, Watson emailed Munoz about the rollout happening soon and their enthusiasm to have the district be a part of their testing phase.

Munoz emailed stakeholders in the district about the rollout on September 22. That same day, the CTO emailed other systems administrative employees about the new program and mentioned that “This is real and the district has decided to move forward with working with this company…It will involve data integration with student and parent information and they will also be working with Follett for data integration and library books.”

In the time between the ink drying on the contracts and the first meeting to roll out the app with district officials, Watson was once again in touch with AISD. But this time, it was to invite the district to an event they were hosting with Moak Casey on Friday during the Texas Association of School Boards . They were invited alongside other districts piloting the program. Those districts included Winters ISD, North Lamar ISD, Godley ISD, Splendor ISD, and Mesquite ISD. At least two other districts were piloting the program who weren’t on this particular invite: Troy ISD—their district librarian noted in an email dated November 30 that they were going live with BookmarkED/OnShelf in January and she had not only not seen a demo but was not involved in the decision making at all—and a district that might sound familiar, Eastland Independent School District. That would be the district where Cochran was the former superintendent. (A FOIA has been sent to Eastland ISD, but it has not yet been fulfilled).

There would be little more happening until October when the first onboarding call was scheduled. That meeting was set for November 1 for one hour.

Then the data begins to pour over to BookmarkED. The district was sent a list of tasks in order to onboard into the app. First, on November 2, Munoz emailed the Systems team in the district requesting the following:

Data needing to be uploaded to bookmarked.

But on November 11, 2023, Munoz discovered a problem. She emailed Watson the following:

We just noticed that we do not have the signed contracts from your end. We do have the Data Privacy agreement signed by both BookmarkED and AISD but the other two contracts (Master Software & Vendor Confidentiality) are not signed by Steve. Can you get this taken care of for us?

Watson would not respond until the 14th when she noted that the contracts would be sent back signed as soon as possible. Those would arrive on Thursday, November 16.

On November 7, the catalogs for each of the participating school libraries were uploaded to BookmarkED/OnShelf. This included a list of every book in the library by barcode and ISBN, formatted into an Excel file. A little confusion happened in the process, and the catalogs for three of the district’s schools—Abilene High School, Taylor Elementary School, and Bonham Elementary School—were uploaded by November 28.

Following the catalog upload, the district needed to upload a list of previously challenged books in the district. That was to include formal and informal challenges, as well as information about the date of challenge; outcome of challenge (no action, library restriction, classroom restriction, classroom and library restriction, and so forth); date that a decision was made; the books authors and title; and a reason or explanation for the challenge.

District leaders booked a training session to go over BookmarkED/OnShelf for December 11, 2024.

It’s now mid-December, 2023, and AISD has fully been onboarded and uploaded to the BookmarkED/OnShelf app. Munoz let the library staff in the affected libraries know and invited them to provide feedback as they tried it out. The library staff and leadership took two opportunities to connect with the new liaison at BookmarkED/OnShelf: December 19 and January 19.

Then, that new BookmarkED/OnShelf liaison reached out to Munoz about a blog post titled “Empowering Educational Excellence: Abilene ISD’s Success with OnShelf.” That document hit Munoz’s inbox on January 25—only days after the library staff had the opportunity to provide feedback on the program and less than a month with the team being able to try it out fully. The document was sent over to Munoz’s boss for approval. BookmarkED/OnShelf followed up about it on February 1, then again on February 8—much quicker than the team followed up on the contracts needing to be signed for the district.

What About The Naughty Abilene Books?

In late December, AISD’s head cataloger for the library had been in communication with BookmarkED/OnShelf’s new liaison with the district, Arden Langford. It was primarily a series of questions about uploading items and navigating the platform. But in one email from Langford, she mentions that the app would allow for seeing if books being considered for purchase would trigger the challenged/banned flags. They decided to try it out.

Langford’s message arrived on December 20, and the head cataloger responded with a spreadsheet of ISBNs, titles, and authors of books they were considering for purchase the same day. On the 22, Langford responded by telling the cataloger that they’d be testing out the “Library health checker” with that data and results should be back in January.

Langford would not be back in touch with the cataloger until February 14.

None of the books that were being considered were flagging banned or challenged titles, though two of the ISBNs did not pull up any data. Here’s a look at what that looks like on BookmarkED/OnShelf’s side.

The next step in trying out the system, per Langford’s next email, would be to send out emails to the district’s parents, who could try out BookmarkED/OnShelf themselves. This is where the information acquired by FOIA ends.

But it’s not where the story ends.

What about those 300+ books that BookmarkED/OnShelf bragged about finding when Abilene’s schools uploaded their catalogs? Abilene states they maintain no such list of these “previously challenged or banned books,” per FOIA.

A Data Privacy Nightmare

Why would a library worker want to add another step to the process of letting someone borrow a book? That’s what happens with BookmarkED/OnShelf. Instead of simply scanning the barcode of the book into the library’s integrated library system (ILS), now library workers have to scan the book twice. First, into BookmarkED/OnShelf to determine if the kid can borrow it, then into their own system to check it out.

Where the ILS is created and developed with privacy and data safety in mind—recall that the Patriot Act was a significant piece of legislation that developers and library workers kept in mind when creating online systems for borrowing items —BookmarkED/OnShelf offers no such thing. Instead, student data is loaded into an app that, as far as can be told at this point, is not secure, is not private, and is possibly available to the people behind the software itself. Folks like Wandler, who have been advocates for “parental rights” and book bans, having access to the names of children who have books restricted is not only a breach of their privacy but sets up an opportunity for then turning that data over to legislators in the state (and a whole host of other people).

The ILS a school uses already has options within it to note whether or not books on a certain topic or theme may be borrowed by students.

So much for “parental rights.”

What You Can Do

Please continue to spread the word about this “educational software” company and what it truly is. This group advocated on behalf of book bans in the state, and now, they’re working themselves into districts across Texas as a solution to the problem. The problem they helped create and which is not a problem at all.

If you see anything in your district that looks suspicious when it comes to BookmarkED or OnShelf, it’s time to reach out to administrators and let them know the truth about this app. Its history proceeds it, even if it claims to have heavy hitters helping push it forward. At the end of the day, this app is not only stealing information via its use of AI, but it’s stealing the work of people who are committed to ending book bans and regressive legislation across the country.

More, as much as this app is angling to “provide information,” what it does is set up not only a tool that completely discredits and disrespects the intelligence, experience, and knowledge of trained professionals, but it also sets forth the prime ingredients for further and further book banning. Parents who are invested in their child’s reading lives have the tools at their disposal already: they have always had the power to restrict books from their children in the library and in the classroom. Indeed, one of the things we know to be true is that Moms For Liberty has fueled misinformation about this by conveniently leaving out the pages of permission forms that allow parents to opt their own child out of lessons .

It is crucial to get the word out there far and wide. This is the third in a series of stories about this company’s plans to dominate the book banning market, and they’re still finding ways to misinform their audience about what they’re doing. How can they be trusted with sensitive data about what parents do and do not want their kids to read? How can they be trusted not to use the information being uploaded to their servers via entire library catalogs in order to spur more book bans through their networks?

They can’t be.

Parental rights, if that’s the true goal here, include knowing the kind of resources being used in a district that immediately impacts students. In the case of BookmarkED, parents need to know the thousands of dollars being wasted left, right, and center in service of “just providing information!” Information that exists and can be professionally used and managed both by those working in the schools and the parents—the very people who claim to be the ones needing to assert the rights that were never actually taken from them.

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Americans embrace self-monitoring: A look at app-based health tracking habits

With smartphones and wearables, consumers now have more control over a wealth of data about their bodies and overall well-being. A new YouGov survey conducted among more than 1,000 US adults reveals a strong national appetite for self-monitoring, with a significant portion of the population actively tracking, or having previously tracked, various health aspects. Notably, two-thirds (66%) of respondents reported tracking at least one health metric before using an app or device. What are Americans tracking? The data sheds light on the types of health information that people are most likely to be tracking:

Exercise : Leading all types of app-based health tracking is exercise, with 35% of respondents indicating they monitor aspects like step count or calorie expenditure.
Blood pressure & heart rate : Rounding out the top three most-tracked forms of health are blood pressure and heart rate, both tracked by 29% of respondents.
Weight management & sleep : Weight or diet (including meals and calorie intake) is tracked by over a quarter of US adults (27%). A similar proportion of people say they track their sleep (24%).

Beyond these core areas, the survey reveals interest in tracking water intake (16%), sexual activity (7%), and even bowel movements (6%).

Age and gender divide in tracking habits Young adults (18-34) are more likely to be tracking their health in general, with a particular focus on areas like menstrual cycles, sexual activity, water intake, sleep, and bowel movements compared to the overall population. This focus on a broader range of health metrics could be due to a heightened awareness of overall well-being or a comfort level with using technology for personal health management. Men (33%) and adults aged 55 (35%) and over are more likely to track blood pressure than other demographics, aligning with the increased risk of cardiovascular issues as people age. Women are more likely to say they’re tracking exercise compared to men (38% vs. 32%). Additionally, young women (18-34) are especially likely to be tracking their menstrual cycles compared to women overall (37% vs. 22%). Find out more about YouGov’s health-tracking survey Methodology YouGov Surveys: Serviced provide quick survey results from nationally representative or targeted audiences in multiple markets. This study was conducted online on March 14-15, 2024, with a nationally representative sample of 1,181 adults (aged 18+ years) in the US, using a questionnaire designed by YouGov. Data figures have been weighted by age, race, gender, education, and region to be representative of all adults in the US (18 years or older), and reflect the latest population estimates from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Learn more about YouGov Surveys: Serviced.

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite

Report: snapdragon x elite beats apple m3 macbook air and has better emulation.

Windows PCs have been due for more efficient ARM-based chips for a while, and it sounds like the Snapdragon X Elite will do just that, delivering better performance than Apple’s M3 and even besting Apple on app emulation.

Apple Silicon, starting with the M1, brought about a big change to computing with drastic improvements to power efficiency without giving up raw horsepower. As such, the MacBook has become the gold standard in laptops, and Windows hasn’t really had a good answer. There have been attempts at ARM-based chips for Windows, but none have really delivered enough.

Now, though, Microsoft reportedly believes that Snapdragon X Elite will not only match Apple, but beat out the company’s latest offering.

Sources speaking to The Verge claim that Microsoft is preparing demos of Snapdragon X Elite that show the Windows chip beating the Apple M3 in the latest generation of MacBook Air when it comes to CPU tasks and AI acceleration. It’s also said that emulation for apps not yet optimized for ARM will be “faster… than Rosetta 2.”

Early impressions of the chip’s performance have been promising.

As for when these new chips will actually become available, the demos mentioned are apparently planned for May 20 ahead of Microsoft’s Build developer conference .

Beyond just the raw power of these new chips, Microsoft will also be making a further push for “AI PCs” including a new “AI Explorer” feature that uses the Elite’s NPU to scan through what the user is working on to create a timeline where you can recall what was previously going on. Other features would improve video streaming, add background blur to Windows Studio Effects, be able to great AI-generated images (for free), and also let Copilot access the clipboard to improve answers and prompts.

Meanwhile, Google recently launched ARM support on Chrome for Windows, and new leaks have also suggested a “Snapdragon X Plus” will offer a slightly cut-down version of the Elite, probably at a lower cost.

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Series of burglaries hit popular San Jose gaming center

By robert handa • published april 12, 2024 • updated on april 12, 2024 at 6:14 pm.

A San Jose business is speaking out after being burglarized for the third time this year and the eighth time since it opened its doors over two years ago.

The owners of the Guildhouse, a popular gaming center in downtown, said they did not want to go public before over concerns it might encourage more crimes, but now acknowledge that strategy is not working.

The business owners are now frustrated and concerned about their future after being hit by burglars three times in the past four months.

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Earlier burglaries were on a smaller scale and some arrests were made, but the latest from March 26 captured on security cameras was the most brazen, with thieves cutting through the back entrances and breaking into the office. The thieves were seen wheeling away the company's safe on a dolly -- all while avoiding alarms and sensors.

"I figured they have probably done it before because they had the right tools," Guildhouse partner David Faria said. "And they made the right cuts in the right places."

Despite all the burglaries, Guildhouse owners did not talk publicly or post anything online until now, and said they did not want potential thieves to see the business as vulnerable. But other neighboring businesses also have been hit.

"When I talked to some of our other restaurant friends, they've said the exact same thing has happened to them," Guildhouse founder Kevin Wick said.

The San Jose Downtown Business Association said it is working with the city and police to find solutions. On Friday afternoon, the mayor and police chief showed up and vowed to help with more foot and bike patrols, and hopefully additional staffing.

"Making sure that we have the appropriate staffing levels to be able to have faster response times, more police presence, more community policing," San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said.

Police plan to follow up any leads that could lead to identifying suspects.

The Guildhouse owners said they hope the city will help, but they are taking steps on their own, including reinforcing entrances and getting overnight security.

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3.5 out of 5 33 ratings Google doesn't verify reviews. Learn more about results and reviews.

Nicholas C. Rossis Jan 9, 2024

MagMinecraft Feb 24, 2023

Mike Evans Author Oct 15, 2022

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