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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 to picture books in Beanstack.
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Bridge the Digital Divide
Run a hybrid summer reading challenge that offers paper and online components with Badge Books, our high-quality reading journals and sticker books for kids, plus matching virtual reading challenges. And our 4.7-star mobile app lets readers log and participate wherever they are.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Showcase Library Services
Promote your summer reading programming and events with activity badges and 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 School or Library
Sync up your site with your local public library 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.
