The Bookshelf plugin provides a centralized and visual way to manage your reading activity within Obsidian. It gathers metadata from your book notes, such as covers, authors, and ratings, and displays them in a personal library view. It also tracks reading progress through entries made in book notes or daily notes, offering a chronological view of your reading journey. Users can analyze their habits with statistics and charts, customize metadata fields to suit their note-taking style, and define how progress is recorded through flexible pattern-based parsing.