About

Picking the next book is one of the worst parts of being in a book club. The thread fills with maybes, half the room missed the message, and someone’s holding out for a title only they’ve heard of. Most polling tools assume signups and email gates — neither earns its keep for a decision that should take one evening.

ReadRound is the smallest thing that could fix this: one URL, no accounts, a clean way to put a few books in front of a room and have the room pick one.

A round has three states. The host opens and closes; everyone else just points.

Open.

Anyone with the club link can pin a book. Paste a Goodreads, Amazon, or publisher URL and we fetch the cover and blurb so the shelf is glanceable. The host can cap how many nominations make it in.

Ranking.

The host opens ranking. Each member drag-orders the nominations from most-want to least-want. Books a member actively doesn’t want to read get a veto — those drop out before any counting.

Closed.

The host closes the round and we tally with Borda count: top of N gets N points, next gets N−1, on down. Highest total wins. If two books tie, the room sees both and picks — we don’t pretend the math broke a tie when it didn’t.

No deadlines, no nudge emails, no “X people are voting now.” A round closes when the host says it does.

No accounts, no email, no third-party trackers. We keep what you nominate and what you write — that’s it. The full version lives on the privacy page.

Bug reports, feature ideas, “the tally is wrong on this edge case” — all welcome at [email protected].