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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 use Goodreads to track my reading. I track title, author, rating, date first read (some stuff from years before I got on goodreads is not comprehensive and dates are estimated, going back to the early 1980s; I joined goodreads in late 2010), and genre (my own genre classification, which constitute my goodreads shelf). Some but not all books have a review also ranging from a few words to an extensive review. Before Goodreads I had a book journal in an online forum; I've downloaded the raw reviews but haven't computed the statistics for those except number of books read. I do track books read on Calibre, Scribd, and my Kindle, but those also are not comprehensive or dated--more out of convenience when looking to start a new-to-me book.
I think of reading diversity mostly from a genre perspective. I don't track author gender per se, but estimate from recent sampling that the overwhelming majority of what I read is by women authors (this is particularly true when mostly reading romance; I'm slowly moving from romance to more SF/F and that is bringing more male authors into my reading). I'm looking to bring more racial diversity into my reading (I already enjoy reading about sexual minorities), but I think of this in the sense of minority viewpoint characters rather than authors per se (I don't really pay attention to author bios unless I love the book first).