Account
Welcome to LitLink
Two ways to get your books in:
- Already using LitLink on a Mac? Open Move from my Mac below. Your whole log, notes, and ratings come along, and you won't need to sign in to Audible again.
- New to LitLink? Open Audible below to connect it. Libby, Goodreads, and StoryGraph are at the bottom of the Shelf tab.
Then put LitLink on your phone's home screen. The steps are under Your app below.
Connections
Audible
LitLink checks Audible when you open the app, at most every 10 minutes. It doesn't check overnight or while you're not using it.
Your Audible ratings
LitLink brings in the star ratings you give in Audible once a day, for books you haven't rated in LitLink, StoryGraph, or Goodreads. Check now to see them.
More books in your series
LitLink checks your series every few days for books you don't have: new releases, pre-orders, prequels, and novellas, plus books that aren't on Audible when Hardcover is set up. They show on the Shelf under Series.
LitLink signs in to Audible like a new phone would, so it shows up under Devices in your Audible account. This is easiest on a computer.
- Open the Amazon sign-in page and sign in. You may be asked twice, or to solve a puzzle.
- You'll land on a page that says it can't be found. That's expected.
- Copy the whole address of that page (tap or click the address bar, select all, copy), come back here, and paste it below.
LibbyLibrary loans
HardcoverSeries books that aren't on Audible
Audible only knows books it sells. Hardcover, a free book site, knows whole series: ebook-only novellas, print books, and announced books with release dates. LitLink uses it to show those too, marked "Not on Audible". It's set up once for everyone on this LitLink.
- Make a free account at hardcover.app.
- Go to Settings, then Hardcover API, and create a key. Pick the longest expiration it offers.
- Copy the key and paste it here.
Keys expire, and Hardcover may reset them while its API is new. If series stop showing "Not on Audible" books, make a new key and paste it here.
Sync when you stop listeningiPhone Shortcut
Optional. An iPhone Shortcut can tell LitLink to check Audible each time you close the Audible app, so your listening times are more exact. It can only start a check; it can't see your reading log.
- Open the Shortcuts app, tap Automation, then New Automation (or +).
- Choose App, pick Audible, select Is Closed (and unselect Is Opened), and choose Run Immediately. Tap Next.
- Tap New Blank Automation, then Add Action, and search for Get Contents of URL.
- Tap the URL field and paste the address below.
- Tap the arrow to show more. Set Method to POST. Under Headers, tap Add new header: the key is Authorization and the text is the value below.
- Tap Done.
To turn it off, delete the automation and remove "iPhone Shortcut" under Your devices.
Move from my MacBring over LitLink from a Mac
If LitLink has been running on your Mac, bring everything over: your log, notes, ratings, and your Audible and Libby connections.
Easiest: click the line below so it highlights, copy it, paste it into Terminal on your Mac, and press Enter.
Or open the LitLink setup page on your Mac, scroll to Move to LitLink online, and paste these. The code works for 24 hours.
Your app
Put LitLink on your home screen
It opens like an app, full screen, with one tap. Use whichever browser you like.
Colors
Saved to your account, so your phone and computer match.
Listening speed
Your usual speed, used to work out how long you actually listened.
Friends
Invite a friend
Each code works once, for 30 days.
Privacy and security
Your devices
Where you're signed in. Your reading log can only be opened by these.
Password and recovery code
Change password
Changed
Make a new recovery code
Lost your recovery code? Make a new one here. Your old code stops working.
Save it somewhere safe, like the notes of your LitLink password in your password manager.
How your reading log is protected
- Your whole reading log, notes, ratings, and your Audible and Libby connections are stored as one encrypted file with its own key.
- That key is locked with your password, your recovery code, and your signed-in devices. The server can only open your log while one of your own devices is using it, and locks it again after 20 minutes.
- Your email is stored only as a scrambled fingerprint, so even the account list doesn't show who you are.
- No public profile, reviews, or sharing. Nothing about your reading goes anywhere except your own devices.
- Honest limit: whoever runs this server could change its code to read logs while people are signed in. Only use a LitLink run by someone you trust.
- LitLink uses Audible's and Libby's unofficial connections, the same ones their own apps use. If they change something, syncing may pause until LitLink is updated.
Your account
Delete my account
This deletes your reading log, notes, and ratings from LitLink for good and removes LitLink from your Audible devices. Download a copy first if you want one.