Privacy and credits

Everything QuotePull does happens inside the browser it is open in. This page says exactly what that means, how to check it yourself, and where the books come from.

QuotePull collects nothing about the people who use it.

• There is no account and no sign-in. No student is ever asked for an email address or a password. The teacher side opens with one shared password, and even that is checked on the device itself: the site ships only a one-way fingerprint of it, and nothing typed is ever sent anywhere.
• There are no analytics, no tracking pixels, no advertising, and no scripts from anywhere but this site. The one open-source library it carries, which makes the chart's Download PDF, is served from quotepull.com too, runs only when a student presses that button, and builds the file on the device.
• There are no cookies.
• Student work is never transmitted. Quotes, notes, themes and names stay in the browser's own storage on the student's device.
• The site talks to no other company's servers. Fonts, dictionaries and the books themselves are files served from this site, not fetched from anywhere else.
• There is no QuotePull server that keeps anything. QuotePull is a set of static files; there is no database and no back end. Like every website, its files are delivered by a host, Cloudflare, whose servers see the ordinary facts of each request (the address it came from, the kind of browser, which file was asked for) in order to send the file back. They never see student work, because student work is never sent.

What is stored, and where

So that a student can close the tab and come back to their work, QuotePull saves to local storage — a space the browser keeps on that one device, for this one site. It is not sent anywhere and it is not readable by any other website.

• Quotes a student has taken, their notes, and the themes they have named.
• Which assignment and chapter they were last on, and how far through it they were.
• A name, course, teacher and period — only if the student typed them for a printed sheet and left Remember on this device ticked. That box can be unticked, and the sheet prints perfectly well with no name on it at all.
• On a teacher's device, the assignments they have built.
• Any text a student has brought in themselves — a story a teacher gave them that this site does not carry. It is read by the browser it was dropped on, kept only there, and never uploaded: there is no server to upload it to. It is erased with everything else below, so keep the original file.
• A few small preferences and markers, none of them part of anyone's work: text size and light or dark, the reading language, whether the opening animation has been seen, which chapters have already been offered a starting legend, and where a search deck was left off.

Everything saved uses a key beginning quotepull:. Clearing the browser's site data for quotepull.com erases all of it, permanently — there is no copy anywhere else, which is worth knowing in both directions. A student who wants to move work to another device uses Move work to another device in the folder at the top of the shelf, to save a file and to open it again; that file goes wherever they put it, and nowhere else.

For administrators

The usual student-privacy questions mostly do not arise here, and it is worth being precise about why: not because of a promise in a policy, but because the software has no mechanism to do the things those rules govern.

• COPPA governs operators who collect personal information from children online. QuotePull collects none and transmits none, so there is nothing to disclose, verify or delete on request beyond clearing the browser.
• FERPA governs education records held and disclosed by a school. QuotePull creates no record outside the student's own browser and discloses nothing to anyone. A printed quote sheet is a piece of paper the student hands to their teacher, exactly like any other assignment.
• State student-privacy laws (SOPIPA and its equivalents) prohibit targeted advertising, profiling, and the sale of student data. None of the three is possible without collection, and there is no collection.
• No vendor relationship. There is no third-party processor to review, no data-sharing agreement to sign, and no subprocessor list, because no student data reaches anyone.

How to check this yourself, in about a minute

Open QuotePull, press F12 to open the browser's developer tools, and choose the Network tab. Reload, use the site, take some quotes. Every request listed will be to quotepull.com, and every one of them will be a file the app is made of — a chapter, a font, a stylesheet. Nothing is sent out, and no other domain appears.

The site also ships a Content Security Policy that instructs the browser to refuse any connection to anywhere but quotepull.com. That is the same promise, enforced by the browser rather than asserted by this page: even if the code tried to send something somewhere, the browser would block it.

This page is the exception to its own sentence, and deliberately: the credits below link to Project Gutenberg, Wikisource, the National Archives, MedlinePlus, NASA, WordNet and the Open Font License, so that an adult checking where the books and the fonts came from can go and look. Those are on this page, not in the reading app, and they are links in the same sense — nothing is fetched from any of them.

Using this site

• QuotePull is free to use, for anyone, with no account and no licence to buy.
• Teachers are welcome to use it with their classes, print from it, and post its links wherever they like.
• It is offered as it is, with no guarantee that it is available or that it is free of faults. Please do not make it the only place a student's work exists — that is what Move work to another device is for.
• Because nothing is stored centrally, work that a student loses cannot be recovered by anyone.
• The books are in the public domain and free to read, copy and quote.

Where the books come from

Every text bundled with QuotePull is in the public domain in the United States. The novels, the play and the stories are taken from Project Gutenberg's plain-text editions and re-typeset for this site — with one exception, named below — and the science shelf is taken from two United States government websites, which is a different road to the same place. The history shelf travels both roads, and is named below with the others. A claim like this is only worth anything if it can be checked, so each text is named here with where it came from.

The Most Dangerous Game comes from English Wikisource instead, proofread there against the 1924 edition. Richard Connell published it in Collier's in January 1924, so its United States copyright expired on 1 January 2020; Project Gutenberg has simply never posted it, which is a fact about their catalogue and not about the story. Two of the others are recent arrivals to the public domain for the same reason and are worth stating plainly: Hills Like White Elephants was published in 1927 and its copyright expired on 1 January 2023, and The Bet is in the Koteliansky and Murry translation of 1915. The Longest Monday, the practice text, was written for QuotePull in 2026 and is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0, so it can be copied, printed and changed freely.

• The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain, 1884
• The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass, 1845
• The Odyssey — Homer, in Samuel Butler's prose translation of 1900
• Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare, 1597

The science shelf (October 2026) is the work of United States government agencies, which is not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. §105). Four of its texts are chapters of Help Me Understand Genetics, the National Library of Medicine's handbook on MedlinePlus, which asks only for the credit Source: MedlinePlus, National Library of Medicine; three are pages from NASA Science, which asks to be acknowledged as the source. Each page was copied once, on 6 October 2026, and the copy is what this site serves — so a page that MedlinePlus or NASA later changes does not move under a student's quotes, and each section in the reader says when its page was last updated. The pictures that go with these pages are not carried, since some are the work of others, and nothing is fetched from either site while a student reads.

• Cells and Genes — MedlinePlus, the chapters Cells and DNA and How Genes Work
• Gene Variants and Health — MedlinePlus, the chapter Variants and Health
• Inheriting Genetic Conditions — MedlinePlus, the chapter of that name
• Genetics and Human Traits — MedlinePlus, the chapter of that name
• Climate Change — NASA Science, its Climate Change pages
• The Solar System — NASA Science, its facts pages for the Sun, the planets, the Moon, Pluto, asteroids and comets
• The Universe — NASA Science, its Universe pages

The Periodic Table, the shelf's chemistry text, was written for QuotePull in October 2026, the way the practice text was, and is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No agency writes an explainer of the table that is free to copy, so this one was written here; its numbers are the kind any printed table can check.

The history shelf (October 2026) is seven collections of speeches, letters and documents of American history, every one in the United States public domain: published before 1931, or a work of the United States government (17 U.S.C. §105) — a President's speech, an Act of Congress, an Executive Order, a Supreme Court opinion. Most are taken from English Wikisource, which asks to be credited as the transcription source; the Declaration of Independence, Lincoln's letter to Horace Greeley, Abigail Adams's letter, Susan B. Anthony's trial, Zitkála-Šá's memoirs and Mary Antin's chapter are from Project Gutenberg editions, and the Bill of Rights and the Thirteenth and Nineteenth Amendments are the National Archives transcriptions. Each was copied once, on 22 October 2026, and the copy is what this site serves. Under each document's title the reader says who wrote it and when — and, where a speech reached us through someone else's pen (Patrick Henry's through William Wirt in 1817, Sojourner Truth's through Frances Gage in 1863, Chief Joseph's through the lieutenant who wrote it down), it says so, because that is the first thing a reader of a source should know.

• The Founding — the Mayflower Compact, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble, the Bill of Rights, Washington's Farewell Address
• Lincoln — A House Divided, both inaugural addresses, the letters to Horace Greeley and Mrs. Bixby, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg Address
• Slavery and Freedom — Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, the Thirteenth Amendment, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois
• Women's Rights — Abigail Adams, the Declaration of Sentiments, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Nineteenth Amendment
• Native Nations — Red Jacket, Tecumseh, Andrew Jackson on removal, Chief Joseph, Zitkála-Šá
• Coming to America — the Chinese Exclusion Act, Emma Lazarus, Jacob Riis, Mary Antin
• The Twentieth Century — Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 9066, Brown v. Board of Education, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson

The typefaces — Literata, Instrument Sans and Public Sans, and the two reading faces a student can choose instead, Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and OpenDyslexic — are licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and are served from this site rather than from a font service. The Spanish glossary is built from open dictionary data, and the card search's related words and the Look up dictionary both come from Princeton WordNet. The chart's Download PDF is made with pdfmake, under the MIT License, served from this site. All of that work happens before the site is published; the app itself never fetches anything from any of them.

How each book’s numbers are counted

Pick a book and the card beside it shows eight numbers under What the reading is like — how many words, how long it takes to read, how many paragraphs and sentences, how long the sentences and paragraphs run on average, how many asides a sentence carries, and how much of the book is people talking. Under them is the longest sentence in the book, and how much of it runs over thirty words.

Every one of them is counted from the text itself. Nothing is compared with any other book, no outside word list or research data is involved, and there is no score, rating or level of any kind. A word is a word, a sentence ends at a full stop, an aside is a comma, semicolon, colon, dash, bracket or a word like although or which, and dialogue is what sits inside quotation marks. Anyone who doubts a number can open the book and count. The minutes are the one figure that rests on an assumption rather than a count: they are the word count divided by 150 words a minute and rounded to the nearest five, a deliberately slow pace, because a student here is stopping to tag a sentence, look a word up and write a note, often in a second language.

It is not a reading level, and it is not Lexile. Lexile is a trademark and a proprietary formula of MetaMetrics; nothing here computes it, uses it, or is named after it. No grade of any kind is stored or shown. These numbers describe the page, not the reader: a short story written in very plain sentences can be the hardest thing on the shelf, and no count on this site will tell you that. Reading the story is the other half of the answer, and it is the teacher’s half.

What used to be here. Until 16 September 2026 this page described a five-line reading profile scored against 110 books published between 1800 and 1925, with a word-frequency list from film subtitles behind two of its lines. It was removed, deliberately, in favour of the plain counts above: a measure a teacher has to take on trust is worth less in a classroom than one they can check.

All of this is counted once, before the site is published, and stored with the book. The reading app never fetches any of it, and nothing about a student’s reading is measured, at any point.

Questions

If you are a student or a parent with a question about QuotePull, please ask the teacher who assigned it, or your school's technology office. They can reach whoever maintains this site.

Last updated 9 September 2026. If this page ever changes, the change will be to describe something the site started doing — and since the site is designed not to do any of it, that is not expected.