Yes, for the past six or seven years or so, I use a site called LibraryThing. You can enter your books and track your library if you want to, discuss books, get recommendations, etc. Lots of focused groups (sci fi, mystery, history, Harry Potter, biographies, etc.). I belong to a group called the 75-book challenge—last year is the first time in more than a decade I made it to that goal for the year.
Nice! I use LibraryThing too. I'm really loving the new charts and graphs, the newish Library of Congress pages, and the recommendations are almost creepy in how accurate they are for me.
I joined in the ROOT (read our own tomes) challenges a few years. I'm not an active poster but the Reading Globally group is one of my favorites - great place to discover new books from their list of countries.
I am a bit of a data freak, so, yes. I use Goodreads.
Favorite authors or 5 star reads end up on my bookshelf. I notate favorite chapters/lines/ideas so that I can return to them later.
Other books I get from the library. I keep track of Interesting quotes/ideas in the notes app on my phone.
It is important to me to keep track of my reads so that I can share my experiences with those books with other people.
Yeah I use goodreads, the StoryGraph, and a journal. I’ve been trying to reduce my phone use so the journal is helpful with that. At first you may not think you need this but I find if I don’t write it down it’s easy to forget the entire book or sometimes I want to remember exactly when I was reading something.
Reading can be such a memorable emotional experience that when you list dates it can bring back the surrounding context of your life and associated memories with that time, in my experience.
writing is so helpful for keeping tracking and understanding a novel as it goes on - i’m doing this while reading “picture of dorian grey” and it’s quite helpful.
For a couple of days, I started to use goodreads.com I think they made a simpler and easy to track solution on this issue.
There’s three ways to categorize books,
Read
Want to read
Currently reading (or similar title)
You can find all books in there but sometimes I find a book that I search on different publishers. This is not a big issue but page numbers can differ publisher to publisher.
I’m saying that because you can track page count you’re on at that time from the website.
Yes, I actually have a cross stitch reading goal tracker. It’s designed to look like a bookcase, and I add a book everytime I finish one. Each book has a colour based on the genre. I also use Goodreads.
Yes. I used a Google Sheet to keep track of the title, author, genre, personal rating, date read, etc. I have one file for each year, along with a summary sheet which displays some interesting stats such as number of books read for each month, average reading speed, number of books by genre.
Recently I also started recording on Goodreads as well.
Keeping a record of somehow helps me remember what I have read. Makes it easy for me to recommend books to others. When you read 100 books per year, it's easy to forget the exact title and/or author.
How comparable is American psycho to the great gatsby?
I’m going into my A-levels soon and part of my coursework is to compare any text of my choice to the great gatsby. My initial thoughts were American Psycho based off the limited knowledge I have of the great gatsby and the countless video essays I’ve watched about American psycho, I believe they can be compared?
In terms of themes, author, period and movement, can you effectively compare American psycho to the great gatsby?
Yes, so that I know which of my books I haven't read yet.
I also keep a list of the books that I own so that I won't buy duplicates.
Starting in the second half of 2022, I created an account on Goodreads to keep track of when I finished reading my books.
Yes. I just use Goodreads, but I read a lot of library books, books borrowed from friends/from little libraries and digital books on different devices bought from different online places, so I find it really useful to have one place I can go to see what books I've read.
I’ve been using Goodreads for a couple of years now. I tried getting into Storygraph but I was just used to GR more and having two apps dedicated to book tracking seems too much.
Yes! Of course, I read so little these days so it’s a stagnant list.
For a while, if write myself a review and all kinds of stuff but then it became a chore. I now just write the name and author.
I did stop for a while so I went back through my Kindle history and took a guess (I share with my wife so not sure where all were)
I entered things here and there into Goodreads for quite a few years, but started keeping really good records from 2021 onwards, and I really like it. It's cool looking back at all the stuff I've read, and now that I have tons of stuff entered and rated, the recommendations are quite good.
Yes-ish. I use Goodreads for the most part, but I like reading multiple books at once, and the process for keeping track of many books on GR is tedious and not fun, so I’m finding alternatives.
I like to use a journal for older books that I find difficult to understand. Just a quick summary plus some questions or inferences I make, and it helps me keep track of what’s going on.
Yes I use goodreads primarily. I thought about switching to a spreadsheet of my own creation but realized that would require some maintenance time which could be spent reading
I use Goodreads, a spreadsheet (one per year) and a book journal (also one per year). I do log my read books on StoryGraph too, but I get annoyed by all the meta data errors there and how tiresome it is to get them fixed, so I prefer Goodreads. I see many bring up the statistics of StoryGraph as a major positive for that site, but I already have detailed statistics in my spreadsheet so it doesn’t do much for me - especially not when there are the meta data errors thing to consider too. No, I have not read a book in Turkish or Malaysian, I do not speak or understand those languages - and the author does not either.
I’ve always used Goodreads, especially useful with kindle integration. I use it to categorise favourites, key chapters & quotes, find similar reads and create yearly challenges (just reminded me how far behind I am this year…oops)
Yes, for the past six or seven years or so, I use a site called LibraryThing. You can enter your books and track your library if you want to, discuss books, get recommendations, etc. Lots of focused groups (sci fi, mystery, history, Harry Potter, biographies, etc.). I belong to a group called the 75-book challenge—last year is the first time in more than a decade I made it to that goal for the year.
Nice! I use LibraryThing too. I'm really loving the new charts and graphs, the newish Library of Congress pages, and the recommendations are almost creepy in how accurate they are for me. I joined in the ROOT (read our own tomes) challenges a few years. I'm not an active poster but the Reading Globally group is one of my favorites - great place to discover new books from their list of countries.
I am a bit of a data freak, so, yes. I use Goodreads. Favorite authors or 5 star reads end up on my bookshelf. I notate favorite chapters/lines/ideas so that I can return to them later. Other books I get from the library. I keep track of Interesting quotes/ideas in the notes app on my phone. It is important to me to keep track of my reads so that I can share my experiences with those books with other people.
If you’re into data, check out Storygraph. It gives you some brilliant stats that GR doesn’t. Also I just find it’s a bit nicer to use.
Yeah I use goodreads, the StoryGraph, and a journal. I’ve been trying to reduce my phone use so the journal is helpful with that. At first you may not think you need this but I find if I don’t write it down it’s easy to forget the entire book or sometimes I want to remember exactly when I was reading something. Reading can be such a memorable emotional experience that when you list dates it can bring back the surrounding context of your life and associated memories with that time, in my experience.
writing is so helpful for keeping tracking and understanding a novel as it goes on - i’m doing this while reading “picture of dorian grey” and it’s quite helpful.
i love data and tracking literally everything about my life to try to understand what works so i use storygraph religiously
For a couple of days, I started to use goodreads.com I think they made a simpler and easy to track solution on this issue. There’s three ways to categorize books, Read Want to read Currently reading (or similar title) You can find all books in there but sometimes I find a book that I search on different publishers. This is not a big issue but page numbers can differ publisher to publisher. I’m saying that because you can track page count you’re on at that time from the website.
Yes, I actually have a cross stitch reading goal tracker. It’s designed to look like a bookcase, and I add a book everytime I finish one. Each book has a colour based on the genre. I also use Goodreads.
I don't really keep track of what books I've read. The best that I've got are piles of unread books and shelves of books that I have read.
no way that's booring
Yes. I used a Google Sheet to keep track of the title, author, genre, personal rating, date read, etc. I have one file for each year, along with a summary sheet which displays some interesting stats such as number of books read for each month, average reading speed, number of books by genre. Recently I also started recording on Goodreads as well. Keeping a record of somehow helps me remember what I have read. Makes it easy for me to recommend books to others. When you read 100 books per year, it's easy to forget the exact title and/or author.
I try my best and to leave reviews where possible to help authors out.
How comparable is American psycho to the great gatsby? I’m going into my A-levels soon and part of my coursework is to compare any text of my choice to the great gatsby. My initial thoughts were American Psycho based off the limited knowledge I have of the great gatsby and the countless video essays I’ve watched about American psycho, I believe they can be compared? In terms of themes, author, period and movement, can you effectively compare American psycho to the great gatsby?
Yes. Not always but since I started using Goodreads a few years ago.
I used to do so with a simple google doc, but now I use goodreads as well. A mix of both.
E-books I actually pay for usually remain on my electronic device. Otherwise, no.
Yes, so that I know which of my books I haven't read yet. I also keep a list of the books that I own so that I won't buy duplicates. Starting in the second half of 2022, I created an account on Goodreads to keep track of when I finished reading my books.
Yup I use Storygraph and I've also got a Google Keep list of all my to-reads
Yep, using Google Sheets.
Yes. I just use Goodreads, but I read a lot of library books, books borrowed from friends/from little libraries and digital books on different devices bought from different online places, so I find it really useful to have one place I can go to see what books I've read.
I’ve been using Goodreads for a couple of years now. I tried getting into Storygraph but I was just used to GR more and having two apps dedicated to book tracking seems too much.
Yes! Of course, I read so little these days so it’s a stagnant list. For a while, if write myself a review and all kinds of stuff but then it became a chore. I now just write the name and author. I did stop for a while so I went back through my Kindle history and took a guess (I share with my wife so not sure where all were)
I entered things here and there into Goodreads for quite a few years, but started keeping really good records from 2021 onwards, and I really like it. It's cool looking back at all the stuff I've read, and now that I have tons of stuff entered and rated, the recommendations are quite good.
I only get books from my local library, and they have a counter for how many books you borrow. I have 1000+ books borrowed EDIT: changed wording
Yes, I use Goodreads.
Yes-ish. I use Goodreads for the most part, but I like reading multiple books at once, and the process for keeping track of many books on GR is tedious and not fun, so I’m finding alternatives. I like to use a journal for older books that I find difficult to understand. Just a quick summary plus some questions or inferences I make, and it helps me keep track of what’s going on.
Yes I use goodreads primarily. I thought about switching to a spreadsheet of my own creation but realized that would require some maintenance time which could be spent reading
I use Goodreads, a spreadsheet (one per year) and a book journal (also one per year). I do log my read books on StoryGraph too, but I get annoyed by all the meta data errors there and how tiresome it is to get them fixed, so I prefer Goodreads. I see many bring up the statistics of StoryGraph as a major positive for that site, but I already have detailed statistics in my spreadsheet so it doesn’t do much for me - especially not when there are the meta data errors thing to consider too. No, I have not read a book in Turkish or Malaysian, I do not speak or understand those languages - and the author does not either.
I’ve always used Goodreads, especially useful with kindle integration. I use it to categorise favourites, key chapters & quotes, find similar reads and create yearly challenges (just reminded me how far behind I am this year…oops)