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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 you read to be soothed versus challenged — the higher it runs, the more you reach for a book that reassures.

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.

Discover books matched to who you actually are as a reader

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

Six patterns most readers fall between. Yours is usually a blend of two.

The Companion
You read for the people.

Plot is scaffolding; character is the reason you stay. You finish a book and miss the people in it like they moved away — you can still hear how they talk.

The World-Dweller
You move into books.

The best books are places, not stories. You want the weather, the streets, the rules — a world so complete you could draw the map from memory.

The Idea Hunter
The story is the bait.

You finish books with questions you didn't know to ask. Characters get you in the door; the idea is what makes you sit up and reach for the next one.

The Pageturner
You have to know what happens.

Momentum is the whole contract. A book earns your night by making the next chapter non-negotiable — and you'll pay for it with sleep.

The Comfort Seeker
You read to exhale.

Books are where things end, and end okay. You're not escaping the world so much as recovering from it — and knowing it lands softly is permission to feel everything on the way.

The Mood Reader
You read by feeling.

You don't pick books, you pick moods. The right book at the wrong time is the wrong book — and a TBR list is a suggestion you'll ignore the second something calls louder.

The Completionist
You need it to land.

An ending is a promise. You'll forgive a slow middle and a quiet plot, but the landing has to earn everything that came before — an ambiguous last page feels like a debt left unpaid.

What your profile looks like

Your result is this specific

Your reading archetype
The Companion
You read for the people.

Plot is scaffolding; character is the reason you stay. You finish a book and miss the people in it like they moved away — you can still hear how they talk.

"You've forgiven a slow, meandering plot for a character you loved — and abandoned a clever, fast one you admired but never cared about. The people are the deal-breaker."

Reading DNA · 8 dimensions

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

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