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Old 12-31-2014, 12:40 PM   #930
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
Yup. There was a period in antediluvian times when I carried a pocket calendar in my purse to keep track of my appointments and I'd jot down books as I finished. I still have a couple and they make for an interesting if slightly embarrassing perusal (All those mysteries! Oy! I've pretty much gone off mysteries.)
I did that, too. Well, not the purse bit, but I scribbled titles down on my calendar when I finished. I migrated from there to a PDA for 2008, and I still track my media consumption with the same app.

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Originally Posted by issybird
I add books to my list at Goodreads as I think of them, but I generally keep it to significant titles and not all of them and I have little if any sense of dates.
I went on a mass scanning spree when I joined GR in 2011, and I started logging my progress there as soon as I found the feature. I also started religiously adding my new purchases as I made them, just because it's easier that way. It's great, but it has its limitations, one of which I found this year.

I'm writing under a pseudonym now, and in the 21st century that means making a whole online persona...with her own reading and reviewing habits. Sure, it's all one set of eyes and one wallet at the end of the day, but there's some stuff I review and some stuff he does. (Yes, that's deliberate pronoun vagueness.) That affects "my" visible stats somewhat, in addition to the gut-punch of a hit caused by the actual writing.

All told, right now I'm at 114 works complete out of a projected 150, and that still feels pretty damn good, because it comes with about 115K words written...and more planned.
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