|
Do you track your reading?
Yes.
Where/how do you do that? In the challenge threads here, in Calibre, on Goodreads, a journal, elsewhere?
On Google calendar since 2012. When I finish or stop reading a book, I note it on the proper date. I input, "Finished book: American pastoral by Philip Roth" or "Stopped reading: The book thief by Markus Zusak." If I want to see the books I have read (by date) I just search Google Calendar for "Finished Book" and there they all are.
I also mark the book "READ" on the Amazon "Your Books" page and give it a rating.
What do you track?
Typically just title and author, because I know that I can find the bibliographic data online anytime I need it, including summaries of what the book was about.
But, for books of short stories (e.g., now reading John Cheever's complete collection), I write a draft summary of each story in longhand, then enter each story's synopsis online in Google Docs when I have completed the book. This means, for example, that I will summarize all +/- 60 of Cheever's stories.
A little odd, I know, but I want an accessible "memory" of each reading experience (each story), and books, as I said, are already conveniently summarized online.
(How) does what you track affect what you read?
Mmmm...my tracking doesn't appear to affect what I will read in the future nearly as much as price. I'm always looking for a good deal on ebooks, which is all I read.
How do you define "diversity" with respect to what you read?
I've never purposely tried to "diversify" my reading. If the book sounds like it will appeal to me and the reviews are telling me the right things and the price is right (very important), I will purchase the ebook and attempt to read it.
|