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Ask HN: How do you track the books you’re reading?
Do you use any app/software or just old school physical bookmark?
- thuccess129 5y agoGNU Emacs Org Mode has a TUI for spreadsheet and more.
- jjjbokma 5y agoI blog [0] when I start a book and when I have finished it. [0] https://plurrrr.com/tags/2021/book.html https://plurrrr.com/tags/2021/book.html
- swah 5y agoObsidian, Joplin, Logseq, all mixed
- skydhash 5y agoGoodreads
- kleer001 5y agoI don't. Should I? I go through at least 3-4 books a month. It sounds exhausting to keep track of all that. And for what?
- pauljonas 5y agoTo remember book titles years later, or even months later, to revisit, or just to share with an interested friend or family member. As a repository to clip highlighted text or notes and/or annotations. I have been using `goodreads` over the past decade, but the app / website has largely languished, and is frustrating, especially the slow load times.
- TechBro8615 5y agoI use a kindle and have never legitimately read more than 2 books at once (even that’s rare).
- ffwacom 5y agoNormally in a stack next to the bed, or strewn about in eyeshot, with dog eared pages.
- gidorah 5y agoI use a bookmark that my kids frequently remove, so just kind of remember where I am up to in any given book.
- randomluck040 5y agoSo I’ve started doing that as well and I’ve noticed that it had a beneficial side effect. Now when I open the book I never manage to exactly find where I left it because I don’t exactly memorise where I’ve stopped. So I open up the book where I thought that I’ve stopped and start reading. Sometimes I overshoot and have to go back a few and start reading somewhere one or two pages before the actual page I’ve stopped reading the last time. This helps me to find my way into the story in a better way since I’m already in the zone when I get to the new part.
- gidorah 5y agoYes, you certainly have to have much more thought about where you are and what's been going on.
- ozzythecat 5y agoI don't really "track" the books I'm reading, although I'm not sure what your precise definition of tracking is. I know some folks use Goodreads. For me personally, I prefer reading physical books over ebooks. I read one book at a time, and no matter what all is on my plate, whether I'm traveling, extremely busy with work, tired, etc. – I always read before going to bed. It actually helps me fall asleep better, and my time laying in bed awake is much more productive getting through my books.