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Literary Loot.

Your personal quotes tracker — save the lines worth keeping.

loot/lo͞ot/ · noun

valuables seized or gathered, especially as spoils or a prized find.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

— George R.R. Martin

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Every passage, kept close

Literary Loot turns the lines you underline into a collection you can actually find again.

Capture in seconds

Type a quote or scan a page with your camera — on-device text recognition pulls the words straight off the paper.

Save from any app

Share text, a photo, or a link into Literary Loot from anywhere on your phone and it opens a new quote, already filled in — links even bring their own preview picture.

Save from any app

Reading somewhere else? Share a highlight, a web page, or a screenshot to Literary Loot and it opens a ready-to-save quote — no retyping.

Organize your way

Link each quote to its book — title search fills in the author, year, and cover for you — then sort your collection with topics, genres, and tags, and filter by any of them, or by date.

Find any line instantly

Fast full-text search across every quote, note, book, and author, with matches highlighted — that half-remembered passage is one tap away.

Share a line

Send a quote with its page photo and your note to friends, reading groups, or your own feed — straight through your phone's share sheet.

Works offline

Your quotes live on your device. No account required, no connection needed to read or add.

Backup & export

Your collection rides along with Android’s built-in backup — or export everything, page photos included, to a single file you can restore anytime.

A favorite, every day

Star your best-loved lines, and add the home-screen widget to be greeted by one each day — tap it to open the quote.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something — a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things — that you’d thought special to you.

— Alan Bennett, The History Boys

Start your collection today

Free on Google Play. Keep the lines that are worth keeping.

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