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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.

• I have a Kindle Paperwhite that I bought in 2016. It has 4GB, it's working just fine, 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.
• Getting books for free, legally see the page I created a while ago that's helped me amass more books than I can read anytime soon!

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!

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.

I may add more books to the list (10, 11, etc) as I read the ones I have.
If BookBub tells me that book 8 or 9 is available for free, I'll download it to my device and add a [h] before it.
This way I can search for author, protagonist (Holmes), or book title, and see its status in my collection.