Channel
Bookshelf (Religion, Science & Philosophy)
@essentialbookshelf
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
3,960subscribers
+37 since we began measuring on 27 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001181374245 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @essentialbookshelf |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 5 September 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 15 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 15 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/essentialbookshelf |
Topic
Religion — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 14 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 66% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Sept 2026, 10:41 | 3,960 | +11 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 23:39 | 3,949 | +15 |
| 7 Sept 2026, 15:35 | 3,934 | +20 |
| 5 Sept 2026, 23:32 | 3,914 | no change |
| 3 Sept 2026, 00:36 | 3,914 | +3 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 07:42 | 3,911 | -3 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 22:37 | 3,914 | -9 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 05:45 | 3,923 | first reading |
Engagement
Posts not read yet. This entry is on the register from its profile alone; the post reader has not reached it. Engagement figures appear here once posts have actually been measured — we do not publish a rate before we have the readings behind it.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@Moviewalker_News · 57,342
Telegram ranks this channel #22 of 23 here — alongside 22 others — read 27 August 2026
@selfdevbooks · 23,862
Telegram ranks this channel #50 of 60 here — alongside 59 others — read 17 September 2026
@Indian_Judiciary_Preparation · 33,173
Telegram ranks this channel #69 of 70 here — alongside 69 others — read 4 September 2026
This channel appears in 3 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 15 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Bookshelf (Religion, Science & Philosophy)” (@essentialbookshelf), 3,960 subscribers as measured 15 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/essentialbookshelf.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.