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  • Four more familiars: the tanuki (loves audiobooks, grows big headphones), the sprout (a flower for every morning of reading), the ghost (a wisp for every horror or mystery, a lantern, a top hat when ancient) and the bookworm (a segment in a finished book's colour at every stage). Twelve in all.
  • Forms: a grown familiar takes one of five forms for good, after the books it was fed on: astral, shadow, bloom, sage or wild, each with its own colours and crown. The bestiary shows which way it leans. Familiars already grown take theirs on the first start.
  • Character: every new egg hatches sleepy, gluttonous, curious, grumpy, playful or brave, and it shows in what it says and does.
  • Finds and the casket: after a sitting the familiar sometimes brings back a little thing from the story, one of 25, some only from one genre or one season.
  • Dreams: in the morning after an evening of reading, a bubble shows what the familiar dreamt; dreams fill an album.
  • The familiar's draw: a book drawn from Want to read, with a prophecy.
  • Only N more pages: the nearest goal under the den, and live in the ritual.
  • Guardian candles: bought with sparks, they burn by themselves on a quiet day and keep the streak (and the stone) away.
  • Seasons: Samhain, the winter holidays, Valentine's days, World Book Day and midsummer dress up the den and the familiar, each with its own find.
  • Visits by QR: a familiar visits a friend's den for a day, with a book to recommend and a gift. Scan with the camera or read the code from a picture.
  • Postcard: a picture of the familiar in its den with the book and the streak, to share.
  • Search finds Russian books: Fantlab first for anything typed in Cyrillic (Russian titles, translations, covers and page counts), Open Library for the rest. Google Books, often over its free quota, is the last resort.
  • The update keeps everything: books, sittings and familiars move to the new database as they are.