How to Use Beanstack

Beanstack is a digital platform and mobile app that helps people of all ages track their reading and stay motivated. It’s often called a “Fitbit for reading” because it uses fun features like badges, streaks, and community challenges to encourage daily reading.

Beanstack offers reading challenges that turn reading into a fun game. It’s helpful for people who want to start reading again, parents who want to track family reading, or anyone with a specific reading goal. Alamance County Public Libraries offers the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten challenge, which encourages you to read any book to your newborn, infant, or toddler, aiming for 1,000 books before they start kindergarten. You can repeat books, and there are family activities to make reading more engaging. Families win prizes for reading 250, 500, 750 and 1000 books, which can be picked up at any library in the county.

The Summer Reading Program is a reading challenge offered during the summer, letting you track reading during summer break. Parents and kids can join in and even win prizes. Beanstack tracks your reading time and gives you online badges to show your progress. As in previous years, participants will win a book for reading their first 90 minutes, and another prize for every 90 minutes beyond that. Children can pick a prize from the prize box, and teens and adults win raffle tickets for great prizes.

Outside the challenges, the app can track how long you have been reading and set reading timers to help you manage your time. It will also keep track of the days you read with a statistic board called My Stats. It will record your book titles, book reviews, and highlights over the years you use the app. You can also turn on a friendly reminder notification about fun facts about reading.

Beanstack is an excellent tool for readers, whether you’re looking to encourage your family to read more or want to establish new reading habits in the New Year. Beanstack provides the support and features to help you succeed. Start your reading journey today by signing up on the Beanstack website or downloading the app.

Download the app on the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

Sharada F.M. is a Library Assistant at Graham Public Library Children’s Department.