Sortabout

Sort your perfect bookshelf. Five atmospheres, infinite combinations. No timers, no levels, no rules. Click through to read over 400 public domain books in full.

Sort Your Shelf Out

Sortabout is a gentle bookshelf sorting game.

There is no score. No timer. No “wrong” order. No streaks, no levels, nothing chasing you. You arrange a shelf of beautiful old books — by colour, by author, by title, or by their Dewey Decimal numbers — and when the shelf looks right to you, you're done. That's the whole game.

It was made for people who are a little too online. Every choice serves calm: you choose when you are done, no-one else. Nothing is ever judged, and when you finish, a breathing light gently suggests this might be a good moment to look away from the screen.

• No scores, no timers, no judgement — ever • 464 real public-domain books to arrange. If you see one you like - click through and download it to your e-reader for free. • Sort by colour, or by names and numbers — author, title, or Dewey Decimal • A Colour Lab for designing your own palettes allows more than 5,000 unique shelf combinations • Reading-room atmospheres and adjustable book heights to match your mood exactly • Gentle generative sound and soft haptics that mix under your own music, podcast or team meeting • No accounts, no ads, no tracking, no internet — nothing is collected, ever • Every game is a "self-portrait" to share with those worthy to truly know you

Sort a shelf. Feel it settle. Put your phone down.