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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I used to keep such records, when I read paper books. Now that my reading material is 90% digital and all my ebooks are in Calibre anyway, I don't bother with keeping several databases. I just mark the book as read in Calibre and give it a rating. When exactly I read it isn't particularly important for me.
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Some of it is a leftover from the days I used to write and then type it up, and back then I printed the pages and kept them in a folder.
Some of it I do out of curiosity ... when I read a book and how long it took. It can be quite interesting to find out how long since I last read a book in a series for instance. The grading I give has meaning well past what I remember years later. Superb is my highest grading, and not too many get that. Unfinished is my lowest, and that rarely happens.
I take the concept of future proofing seriously too, so some elements are there just in case I might find a use for them later.
I also see it as a kind of diary. Just like you might remember something because of a movie or a song.
I expect you have backups of your calibre setup, as I would do in your scenario. I guess I find it easier to just continue how I have done, since before calibre came along, and easy to keep several backups of files.
Thank you for being a civil person.
Clearly some struggle to have a conversation without getting nasty.
P.S. I forgot to mention, I also have records going right back to my childhood, which are in another file, that is just me guessing at a year really. So the total number I have read by Terry Brooks for instance, is not including them in my current record. The beginning of the current record, is also guesswork, though based on approximate month and not year so much. I only back-dated for at most about two years ... got too hard after that to be precise enough, so started a different type of entry and file for earlier reads.