What booksinorder.app keeps and what it does not.
Last updated October 6, 2026.
What this site's server records: which pages were opened, which book, series or author a page was about and how many books it listed, whether a search was picked from the suggestions or typed, and which store link was followed. It does not record the words you type into the search box.
A cookie holds a random number for one browser session, so that the pages of one visit can be counted together. It ends when the browser is closed. There is no sign-up and no account.
These records are deleted after 13 months.
The web server's access log also notes each page's address without anything typed into it, the type of browser, the website that linked here and the session number. It holds no internet address.
Book covers load from Open Library (openlibrary.org) or, when it has none, Google Books (books.google.com). Your browser asks Open Library for each cover by its cover number (or by the book's ISBN when that number is not known yet) and Google Books by the book's ISBN, and does not send this page's address; like any website, they can see your device's internet address. Everything else on this site loads from this site.
Apart from those covers, the site makes no requests to other companies: no advertising, no analytics service, and no fonts or scripts from anywhere else.
Store and library links lead to other websites. What those websites record is covered by their own privacy policies.
If you report a problem with a list or ask for a book to be added, the text you send is stored so it can be checked. An email address or phone number typed into a report is removed before it is stored. Reports and requests are deleted after 90 days.
The server's security and error logs can hold the internet address of a device that connects to it. They are used only to keep the site running and safe.
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