Reading Log Printable, Book Journal, Undated PDF, A4 A5 US Letter, My Reading Diary by Hibimasu

A printable reading log and book journal to fill in by hand. It comes as PDFs in A4, A5 (6-ring size) and US Letter. This is a digital download. No physical item is shipped. The Notes page mentions an optional companion spreadsheet. It isn't included in this listing, and the diary works fully on paper without it.

One line on the Reading Log for each book you finish, a spine on My Bookshelf, and a page of thoughts for the books you want to remember. Paper books, library books, e-books and audiobooks all count.

Every page is undated, so you can begin on any day and print a page again whenever you need it, for your own use.

How I use this diary (these are the same five steps printed on the cover page of the A4 file):

1. Print the pages I need. Every page is undated; I print as many A Book I Read pages as books I want to remember.
2. Start the year gently. On My Reading Year, I write a few hopes and shade a square for each finished book.
3. Log every book. One line on the Reading Log when I finish, and a spine on My Bookshelf.
4. Keep the good parts. Thoughts go on A Book I Read; favourite lines on Lines I Want to Keep.
5. Look back once a month. I fill the tally box on Looking Back: books, pages, minutes, days I read.

Inside the A4 and US Letter diary (15 pages: a cover plus 14 undated pages), in this order:

1. Cover page: how I use this diary
2. The colours of my year
3. This Diary Began
4. My Reading Year
5. My Bookshelf
6. Reading Log
7. A Book I Read (journal)
8. Lines I Want to Keep
9. To Be Read
10. Reading Minutes
11. My Year in Books
12. Borrowed & Lent
13. Looking Back on the Month
14. Looking Back on the Year
15. Dot-grid notes

The A5 file is the same sections, laid out again for A5 paper (148 x 210 mm, A5 6-ring size) rather than shrunk: 28 pages (a cover, a contents page and 26 undated pages). Columns are narrower than the A4; if you write large, the A4 may suit you better. The A5 also comes in the twelve colours.

What you download (five files):

- Reading-Diary-Printable.zip: the diary as one 15-page PDF in A4 and one in US Letter, plus START-HERE.txt
- Reading-Diary-Printable-Monthly-Colours_A4.zip: the same 15-page diary in twelve colours, one PDF each, plus START-HERE.txt
- Reading-Diary-Printable-Monthly-Colours_US-Letter.zip: the same twelve colours in US Letter
- Reading-Diary-Printable_A5.zip: the 28-page A5 diary plus START-HERE.txt
- Reading-Diary-Printable-Monthly-Colours_A5.zip: the same 28-page A5 diary in twelve colours, one PDF each, plus START-HERE.txt

The twelve colours are named after traditional Japanese colours, one for each month of the old Japanese year, as printed on The colours of my year: ai-iro (indigo), uguisu-iro (bush-warbler olive), sakura-iro (cherry-blossom pink), wakakusa-iro (young-grass green), fuji-iro (wisteria), ajisai-iro (hydrangea blue-violet), asagi-iro (pale green-blue), wakatake-iro (young-bamboo green), hagi-iro (dusky bush-clover mauve), kuri-iro (chestnut brown), kaki-iro (persimmon), ginnezumi (silver grey). Print whichever one feels right, in any order and any season. The pages are the same in every colour; only the colours change.

How to print: choose Actual size / 100% scale, on paper of the same size as the file. For A5, print on A5 paper, double-sided (flip on the long edge), at Actual size / 100%, then punch. The A5 margins are mirrored for double-sided printing.

This diary is part of the Hibimasu Paper Diaries.

Designed by Hibimasu with the help of AI tools.

Some photos show sample entries for illustration. The pages you download are blank, ready to fill in by hand.

No refunds, except where the law requires. If a file won't open or doesn't match the listing, send me a message here on Etsy and I'll fix it.

Buying this file gives you a personal, non-transferable licence to print and use it for yourself and your household, at home or at a print shop. You may not resell, share, upload, give away or redistribute the files (or edited versions), or use them in anything you sell, including printed planners, digital planners, templates or AI training. Copyright 2026 Hibimasu. All rights reserved. The fonts are used under the SIL Open Font License. This diary is for personal reflection and record-keeping and is not medical, financial or tax advice.