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12,847 readers profiled
8 behavioral dimensions
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6 distinct reader archetypes
Your Reading DNA

Eight dimensions that define how you read

Not what you read. How. Your Reading DNA captures the behavioral patterns that make some books click and others fall flat — patterns that don't change when the genre does.

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What it measures

Eight signals. One reading identity.

Immersion Depth

Some readers dip in and out with ease. Others disappear entirely. Your immersion depth tells us whether you want a book to hold you loosely — or swallow you whole.

Emotional Bandwidth

Do you return to the same emotional wavelength in every book, or move through grief and joy and wonder all at once? Your bandwidth shapes every match we make.

Cognitive Load

There's a difference between a book that asks nothing of you and one that asks everything. Neither is better. Your load tells us exactly where you want to be.

Character vs. World

Are you there for the characters — their choices, their interior life? Or for the world they move through? This dimension runs deeper than genre. It runs to how you read.

Resolution Need

Some readers feel cheated by ambiguous endings. Others feel released by them. Your resolution need tells us how much closure you require to feel satisfied.

Pace Metabolism

Do you savor sentences, lingering for days in the same chapter? Or sprint, cover to cover, barely pausing? Your metabolism shapes which books will feel right — and which will feel wrong.

Comfort Ratio

Some readers want books that confirm their world. Others want books that unsettle it. Your comfort ratio tells us how much unfamiliarity you can carry — and how much challenge is just enough.

Valence Preference

There are readers who need hope in their books the way other people need it in their days. And readers who trust darkness to take them somewhere true. You know which one you are.

How it works

Three minutes. Eight dimensions. One reader identity.

Answer 8 questions about how you read

Not about genre. Not about mood. About the patterns underneath — what keeps you up at night, what makes you abandon a book, what you remember a year later.

See your Reading DNA mapped across 8 dimensions

Your radar shows the shape of how you read. High immersion depth. Low cognitive load preference. High character orientation. It's yours — and it's specific.

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Not the most popular books. Not the books your friends loved. Books chosen because they fit the exact shape of how you read — and why.

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Reader archetypes

Six ways people read

Every reader belongs to one. Most recognize themselves immediately.

28% of readers
The Mood Reader
You read like you listen to music.

Books are emotional instruments. You pick them the way some people pick a playlist — to match where you are, shift where you're headed, or just to feel something real.

31% of readers
The Comfort Seeker
You read to exhale.

Books are where you get to know how things end — and that things end okay. You're not escaping the world. You're recovering from it.

22% of readers
The World Builder
You move into books.

The best books feel like places you've actually been. Characters matter, but only as your guide through a world that feels lived-in long before you arrived.

19% of readers
The Idea Hunter
The story is the bait.

You finish books with questions you didn't know to ask. Characters get you there, but the idea is what made you stay — and what makes you reach for the next one.

17% of readers
The Restless Reader
You move fast and rarely look back.

If a book hasn't earned your trust in 50 pages, you're already somewhere else. You read more than most, but you're always quietly looking for the one that makes you slow down.

14% of readers
The Deep Diver
You read to disappear.

Once a book has you, the real world can wait. You don't skim the surface — you go all the way down and stay there until you're ready to come back up.

What your profile looks like

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Your reading archetype
The Deep Diver
You read to disappear.

Once a book has you, the real world can wait. You don't skim the surface — you go all the way down and stay there until you're ready to come back up.

"You say you read for the story, but what you're actually chasing is the feeling of being somewhere else entirely. Plot is just the vehicle."

Reading DNA · 8 dimensions

Your actual radar reflects your specific answers — not a template.

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