Some things deserve
to be remembered.

Hello, friend. You probably want to know why a dragon.

The honest answer starts a long way back. I grew up on fantasy and science fiction — the kind of books and games where the world is bigger than the page or the screen, and when a quiet hour with either felt like leaving home for somewhere better. The Lord of the Rings was one of those first stories for me. The RPGs I played as a kid were the others. What they had in common was that they were worlds, not stories — places that kept existing whether you were paying attention or not, and that remembered you when you came back. Every book is an open world. Every reader is the one who walks through it.

So when I started building Page Quest, the dragon wasn't a marketing decision. She was the part of the project I'd been carrying around since I was ten. Ember is what happens when you take the small companion who used to follow you around in your favorite games and ask her to follow you around in your reading life instead.

Her name is Ember. She remembers your books — every one of them, including the one you abandoned in chapter three and the one you stayed up too late to finish. She remembers your reading life better than you do, which is maybe the only thing software is actually good for. She knows when you've had a long week. She knows the night you finally went back to The Fellowship of the Ring. She holds onto all of it, quietly, the way a good companion does.

She'll never push you. She'll never guilt you. When your streak ends, she'll be the first to tell you that streaks aren't the point — reading is. And when you come back, even after a long absence, she'll have remembered exactly where you left off.

That's why a dragon. Because the books that mattered most to me were the ones with worlds I could come home to, and a small, warm creature with a good memory turned out to be the right way to bring that feeling here.

Read on, friend. She's waiting.

— Jake