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Reading with Austen

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Reading with Austen publishes journals, poems and short stories about books & reading at readingwithaustenblog.com, a site they built themselves. Last published October 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 2 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

71 dated posts since 20202 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksJune 2020 to August 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20202020-06: 152020-09: 82020-11: 620212021-01: 62021-09: 620222022-05: 620232023-08: 620242024-12: 620262026-06: 62026-08: 6
fewermorepeak: 15 in June 2020

Counted from links on their own pages whose paths carry a year and a month. That reaches only the pages the crawl has seen, so early years may be undercounted.

Posts per year

292020122021620226202362024122026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 15

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 15, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
1 captured
Front page
596 KB, 41 scripts, 133 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
1 other writer in the index, 56 other sites, 4 platforms
Found
2026-09-22, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

sheep67godmersham5window716chawton5booklady3canterbury11pinterest265open1535lost785share1261tumblr564knight157print604facebook889

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Who vouches2 writers in the index

2 writers in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

Their neighbourhood

Reading with AusteJane Austen in VerJane Austen in Ver60 sites outside the indexReading with Austen
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Jane Austen in Vermont.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · vouched by the literary end

How the machine sees this site

  • Not in the top million domains. No big engine has ranked it for anything.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • Built with a static generator. The pages are files, written once.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
  • The navigation carries a commercial page or two.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

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