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Originally Posted by issybird
That's why they call it a challenge and not a walk in the park.  But I'm right there with you.
Goodreads makes it easy for me to keep track of my reading. I find it takes less effort to check the website (or there's the app, but I prefer the web page) for a title and add it that way as I start it, than to maintain a list manually.
The mess I have to deal with at some still-undetermined point in the future is Calibre maintenance, which I haven't been able to do for months. I have dumped each title into it as I bought it, but none have been tagged or gotten my own metadata or had their covers fixed. 
Continuing to buy books even as I can't read them is another issue entirely.  |
Goodreads doesn't much work for me. It's ANOTHER step. Calibre is where I do my book management, except it doesn't really handle audio books well. But at least whenever I get a new book, I suck it into Calbre (removing any DRM in the process, of course) and then Edit the metadata, update covers, etc. And convert it if I happened to get it from Kobo or other ePUB source.
The problem is that I haven't had a column for date started/date finished, so stuff got lost easily. And while I have the cost in Calibre (except the audio cost), that's less useful than it could be if I don't get it over on to the Challenge list.
If Calibre had a way (other than "blank" books) for Audio books, that would be a huge help. But the only plug in that exists is old, not apparently supported, and doesn't do even close to what I want.