Rating 4.5 rounded up to 5.

I have been using the NetGalley Reading Journal for about a month now. I started using it in March and retroactivity completed the journal for January and February. While Goodreads recommends Xodo or Goodnotes, I imported the journal into my Notability. It works great! All of the tab links are still functional. That's a big win!

There are so many aspects to this journal that I love. I enjoy the monthly "check-ins" and the formatting for the book reviews. I like the concept of the Netgalley Bingo, but the application may prove to be a little challenging. For example, I can request a book with an "Author's name has initials" or "Title Begins with an N", but if the books do not get approved by the publisher, then it's not as fun. I am going to use that for all of the books I read this year, not just the ones for NetGalley - same for the A-Z Challenge, and for the Categories Challenge. Obviously, as it is not the end of the year, I have not used the Wrap Up yet, but I am looking forward to it.

Outside of needing to pull additional resources for the games, which is no big issue, the biggest suggestion for improvement that I would have relates to the rating system. Much like how we are able to select the stars on NetGalley, adding some sort of way to do that in the journal would be helpful. I tried coloring in the stars and that looked janky. NetGalley does provide star stickers (check out the User Guide), which is very helpful. It's small inconvenience, but if that process could be improved, that would be a nice upgrade.

So kind of NetGalley to gift us this gorgeous reading journal! It has everything you could possible need and it’s super pretty!

I've paid for so many reading journals in the past but they were too confusing with too many pages to fill in, so this is perfect for me! 😄

What a fantastic resource this is. I really like the formatting of it and the templates. I know personally that I’m going to find this very useful to keep organised.

not very efficient. the stickers aren't actually stickers. not user friendly. i liked the format but there wasn't enough pages and spaces. the idea is coherent but the execution isn't.

This is such a great idea and really helps me save money and not having to buy a separate journal thank you

I love using this reading journal on my Ipad. It's makes it easier for me to be able to keep track of the books that I read and any notes that I take on them.

I love this journal! Thank you so much for creating it. I found the links to the Advocate Toolkit and other tips especially helpful! I look forward to using it to track my reading this year.

I love this reading journal! This was such a great idea and very well executed.
As I do use GoodReads, I find that I don’t have much use for this but I nonetheless love the idea, layout and depth of this journal.

I like the idea, but have no need for it and it isn't aesthetically pleasing to me. I hope others can enjoy it to the fullest :)

With Goodreads profile, I don't really think there is need for another "app" to track our reading process.
It kinda feels like something one would like to print out but then way too much data would have to be added, requiring a lot of work.

Thank you NetGalley for this great reading journal. What a delightful surprise for your readers! I especially liked how you could track your reading over a long term.

Great resource!! With very cute templates to keep yourself on track with your reading! Thank you Netgalley!

This was a cute reading journal with wonderful templates. Downloaded this previously and enjoyed it!

Great resource. Enjoying using it. I like the ease of use. It makes journalling very accessible. Thanks for the opportunity to trial the journal.

Love how you can keep track of your reading! I like to keep track of my books because that is one way I can share with friends and let them know what I have read and give them my honest opinion.

Super cute but not sure how much use I'll get with how few ARCs I read each year. But I love the template and was able to download it into my writing app easily.

Feature-rich and useful, though I will likely continue to annotate via text highlights and notes within the Kindle book. That's a personal decision, nothing to knock this app, as I think many will find it very useful to gather and organize thoughts for the purpose of writing reviews.

This is a super cute reading journal, I loved being able to see everything in one place physically. Typically I use Notion but having something physical to help me track has been great. Thanks we are Bookish!

For some reason, I thought this Journal might be printable but it's so large, there is no way it can be printed. It;s probably something I won't use electronically, Thank you for the offer though.

This is a great, easy way for me to track my reading. I absolutely love it and will definitely be using it a lot.