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Tracking the Reading

I'm going to discuss how I track the books I have ready to read and those that I've read. You may have a different methodology, and if you let me know I'll consider adding your techniques to this page.

Resources and Devices

  • I have a Kindle Paperwhite that I bought in/around 2017. It has 4GB and it's holding over 300 books.
  • I also have a free account with BookBub and it tells me of bargain and free ebooks that I can download onto my Paperwhite.
  • Free Ebooks: I've created a page for this

Keeping track of all the books

Here's how I handle them all: I've created a Note entry with the info.

  • The Note has all books, sorted by author, and in order (if appropriate) under the author.
  • Each author grouping has the series (if it's a series) name and the (author) in parens, followed by any notes.
  • Each book has the name, and a [h] before the name if I Have it on my Kindle. If no [h] then I may be getting it in the future
  • If the book is part of a collection (one file with several books) I change the [h] for each within the collection to [h1] where '1' is the collection number.
  • As I am reading the book, I change the [h] to [hr].
  • When I finish reading the book, I change the [hr] or [h] to [read]

I use a Note entry because I have several Apple devices and this makes the list of books available on all devices. I'm not sure how this might work on non-Apple devices, let me know!

Example

Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) British Detective with Watson

  1. [read] A Study in Scarlet
  2. [hr] The Sign of Four
  3. [h] A Scandal in Bohemia
  4. [h1] The Red-headed League
  5. [h1] A Case of Identity
  6. [h2] The Boscombe Valley Mystery
  7. [h2] The Five Orange Pips
  8. The Man with the Twisted Lip
  9. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

So you can see this is a series of books, and the first 9 are listed.
I have the first 7 of the books, I've read the first and I'm reading the 2nd. The 4th and 5th are in a collection as are the 6th and 7th.
I don't yet have copies of the last two books listed.

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