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Easy-to-Use Reading Tracking
Motivate more readers with tools like a reading timer, ISBN scanner, and title progress bars. Community members love logging everything from audiobooks and graphic novels to picture books and chapter books in their Beanstack reading logs. Leave paper logs behind with our innovative platform.
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Offer Something for Everyone
Easily offer summer reading challenges for all ages, from kids and parents to students and seniors. With Beanstack, you can grow your base of summer reading participants with tailored challenges and content for the whole family, young readers, teens, and older readers alike.
Supercharge Summer Learning
Students who read during summer break maintain and build up their hard-earned reading skills instead of backsliding. Running engaging and accessible summer reading programs lessens learning loss and closes the achievement gap, helping to meet reading goals.
Save Time and Effort
Streamline everything summer. We make it easy to customize your website, launch summer reading challenges, manage staff and reader accounts, track prizes, and get data.
Easily customize every aspect of your website, from registration information to nitty-gritty challenge details. Integrate your library catalog to promote your collection through reading lists and challenges.
Download reports of all your summer reading challenge data and gain valuable insights about your community and impact. Get as granular as the specific badges earned by each reader or obtain a bird's eye view of the total minutes or books read per month during the summer challenge.
Increase Summer Reading Participation
Libraries around the world grow their summer reading stats with Beanstack. In their first summer using Beanstack, Wellington City Libraries in New Zealand boosted participation by more than 400% and the books read per participant by more than 200%.
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How We Fuel Summer Reading Growth
Amplify the reach of your summer reading program with Beanstack's state-of-the-art technology and content.
Support Your Community With Summer Reading
Discover how summer reading programs can make a difference in your community by boosting engagement and encouraging more reading among individuals, from tackling the summer slide to building connections through library programs.
Showcase Library Services
Promote your summer reading programming and events with activity badges and fun activities like bingo cards to connect readers with technology services and resources. Boost circulation by turning your staff picks and recommended reads into reading list challenges.
Partner With Your Local Library or School
Sync up your site with your local public library location or school district with our one-of-a-kind tandem connection service. With tandems, readers can link their Beanstack accounts and log reading for all the challenges in their community—helping you boost participation and engagement.
