March 30, 2009
I decided to join in the fun over at Rebecca’s blog Just One More Page. Each Monday she poses a question for us to muse over. Today’s question is:
Do you keep track of what and/or how many books you read? How long have you been doing this? What’s your favorite tracking method, and why?If you don’t keep track, why not? (question courtesy of MizB)
Well anyone who has spent more than five minutes on my blog knows the answer to this question. I track all my yearly reads on this page of my blog – and if you click on the link for each year you will see my reading broken down into months where I list each book, its rating, number of pages, what I read it for, when I started it, when I finished it and a link to my review. I also have a separate review page where you can look up every book I’ve read by author with a link to my review of that book
I started seriously tracking my reading in 2007 here on my blog, but before that I used to keep an electronic “diary” of everything I had read in a Word Document. In 2007, I switched that over to a Google Spreadsheet. I also track the new-to-me authors I read every year.
I like the reading journal format on my blog because it is very visual. I should also mention that I print out hard copies of all my journals for each year with copies of my reviews and file them in plastic sleeves in loose leaf binders.
Yes, I know, I am a little obsessive!
= Excellent
= Good/Very Good
= Okay read
= Not recommended
= Ugh! Don't waste your time.
I love the way you do your reading journal!
I’ve got my journals going back at least 10 years. I love to look at them lined up on the book shelf.
I’m a yearly, by the month, lister. My MM is up!
You are SO organized!
It never occurred to me to keep track of the books that I read until I started reading book blogs. I can learn a lot of valuable tips from you!
I admire your journal page! No surprise, I know. I have a similar organizational scheme using tags for my reviews but the journal brings it all together nicely.
Obsessive? You? Oh, no, not really
Thank you for the reminder to print out copies of my reading records!
I like that obsessive quality you have!! I should do something like this sometime…
A little obsession never hurt anyone
I’ve thought about printing out a hardcopy of my reviews, just in case something terrible happens and they all get lost! So no, you’re not obsessive at all.
Kathy: Thank you so much!
Melanie: I love going through my journals from time to time. Wow, 10 years! That is awesome!
Mary: I’ll be over later to read your thoughts!
Molly: I wish my house looked as organized as my book journals *laughs*
Laura: *laughing* Why do you think we relate to each other so well!??!?
Nise: You’re welcome!
Staci: I’m glad someone likes my obsessiveness!! *laughing*
Rebecca: I’m inclined to agree
Jeane: I am just so paranoid about losing everything I’ve done – I’ve never trusted the digital age!