Let’s talk bookish ➙ Tracking my reading

Good morning, Everyone!

Let’s Talk Bookish is a bookish meme that was created by Rukky @ Eternity books where each Friday, bloggers write posts discussing the topic of the week! Since the beginning of April, the meme has been taken over by Aria @ Book Nook Bits; She also created the pretty new graphics!

 

❀ May 27; Tracking reading (Aria)

Prompts: Do you keep track of the books you read? If so, do you use Goodreads? Storygraph? Another platform? Has the way you keep track of your reading changed since you started blogging? What are the pros and cons of tracking your reading?

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I do track my reading yearly in a few different ways; I do use Goodreads like alot of people in the community, but I also use my Bullet Journal. Before blogging, That was something that I didn’t do, I just bought physical books and I would shelf them & move them somewhere else after reading them (so they wouldn’t stay in my “unread” pile- as I always liked to keep those seperate of each other so I could see which one I’ve read or not) and that was it.

I’m quite sad that I just discovered Goodreads as I started blogging in 2019 because I now have so many books that have been sweeped from my memory. I know I had read them or used to read them- but I don’t recall what the story is most time 😅 So if I would’ve been able to look back to some of my thoughts/notes on them from years ago, that would’ve been really nice!

 

Goodreads

I have a few different shelves onto my accounts that help me track different things. First is my reading challenge, that mainly keep track on itself on how many books i’ve read within the current year, but I also have a different shelf for Library books i’ve borrowed (with a separate ones for the audiobooks).

I also like to keep two different lists of books I’d wanna get to: one for those that are physically on my unread shelf and one for books that I “virtually wanna read”, aka books that i’ve seen online or somewhere else that I want to read.. but don’t actually have a copy of. This second list helps me alot when borrowing books, or when purchasing them, so I know I had an interrest in that particular book.

Finally, I have another shelves for my Netgalleys/Review Requests, that basically act like a reminder that I do have those books in my possession (usually kindle), that I need to get to. There’s one for my DNFs too, but I actually haven’t dnfed anything within 2 years so that one isn’t really in use as of now.

 

Bullet Journal 

Since I’ve started this hobby, I’ve always kind of reciprocate my reading challenge; so i’d leave a page for me to write the books I’ve read within my numbered list. This year, the goal has been 30; so that’s how many books i’m gonna write in.

As you can see, i’m a bit more than halfway already! I also like to keep track of backlist books (pictured by a ★ besides them), the language I read them in & the format (mainly for the #AudiobookChallenge, but i’m also curious). As I created a goal for myself to branch for different genres than I would usually pick, I also track those with a (•) symbol.

Another thing that I would do, is write in my weekly pages when I finished a book with a pick highlighter- so I can sort of “calculate” how long it took me. I also write the books read within the month on my calender page; as it helps me when I do my Monthly Wrap ups.

Lastly, I keep track of release dates on my weekly aswell, where I write in my little memo section on the bottom of the page when X book get published when I get a Netgalley or Review Request ☺️

 

 

How do you track your reading?