💬 Friday Thread: How Do You Track Your Reading?

And what have you been reading this week?

Hello!

I hope your week has been going well. If you live in the US I hope you’re staying warm with this arctic blast that seems to be affecting everyone. We’re supposed to get 10-12 inches of snow on Sunday (in Ohio) and I’m hoping it doesn’t actually end up being that much. I hate driving in snow!

For today’s Friday Thread, I had to scroll back through my archive because I thought for sure I’ve asked this question before. Seems I haven’t, so today is the day. This feels especially relevant since we’re starting a new year and maybe you’ve decided to change up how you track your books—or maybe you haven’t tracked your reading in the past and you’re going to begin.

Let me back track for a second and share what I mean when I say “tracking” when it comes to our reading. Basically, how do you keep track of what you read? And I’d like to go even deeper within that, what parts of what you read are important to you to track? Is it simply the title, author, and date read? Do you give star ratings? Track where you heard about a book? Note when you don’t finish a book?

Both of these questions are going to be different for every reader, and I think it’s going to make for a fun discussion to share the varied ways, apps, elements, etc of how we each approach keeping track (or not) of what we read. Of course, there’s no “right” way to track a reading life. In fact, many readers have no desire to keep track of the books they read at all. My mom tracks nothing about her reading and that works for her. In fact, she often ends up rereading books that she thinks sound good and then realizing at the end she read it years ago. She enjoys this about her reading life.

I’ll meet you in the comments where I’ll share how I’m tracking my reading this year, the new book app I’m considering trying out, and what I’m reading this weekend.