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Originally Posted by DNSB
At one point in time, I did keep records but after a few years (around 1998), I decided my time was better spent reading since I very seldom looked at the records after I had created them.
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Some 8 or 9 years ago, a friend persuaded me to "track" in Goodreads. She said it was fun. I did it faithfully for a year, counting only new reads, not any re-reads. I totally skipped any social doings on Goodreads. Only to see exactly what I already knew... I read a lot. I think I hit 120+ books that year.
The process of constantly adding what I'd read was annoying as heck and at the end of the year, I quit cold, because as you say, my time was far better spent just reading.
If I forget whether I've read something, I simply read it again. If I don't enjoy something on the first read, I dump it out of Calibre so I don't have to worry about re-reading it! And if I start reading and go "Oh yeah, I remember this!" then I can choose to continue or not.
It's a simple system. Reading is like breathing to me. I don't track each breath I take.