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Originally Posted by Dazrin
So, in an attempt to understand just how far to the side of the "book tracking" bell curve I am, some questions: - Do you track your reading?
- Where/how do you do that? In the challenge threads here, in Calibre, on Goodreads, a journal, elsewhere?
- What do you track? Just title/author or do you know the exact edition of every book you have read back through 1993 including how many reading sessions it took to read each book?
- (How) does what you track affect what you read?
- How do you define "diversity" with respect to what you read?
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I do track my reading. In three places. The most detailed is in a spreadsheet in Google Drive (since 2012). I keep track of title, author, series, # in series, year of publication, date started & finished, rating, and number of pages. At the top of the page I list average pages per book and average rating. In the past I also added genre and word count, but I dropped those. On my blog and in Goodreads I keep a list of what I've read, plus active series and series finished/abandoned/up to date. I try to keep Calibre up to date every couple of weeks, but I'm not very good with that.
The tracking doesn't affect my reading. I just find it fun to keep track and occasionally it helps to decide whether to read another book by an author or not.
I don't bother diversifying my reading. Having studied English I decided years ago I have done more than enough reading of books that I don't like and/or don't find interesting. I read what I like, occasionally I'll try something new but I'm not going to finish it if I don't like it.