Book tracking without social networking - Page 3

Ravensknight · 06-06-2015, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Tarana

I think you are just not using your brain. It happens to us all. You can set up a separate library of in Calibre for books you have read. You can use a spreadsheet. You can use a blank book. Enjoy!

No, I think YOU are not using your brain...

vsalvaggio · 06-07-2015, 01:07 PM

One thing I haven't seen mentioned: you can "follow" an author on Amazon and get an email when they publish a new book.

BearMountainBooks · 06-07-2015, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by vsalvaggio

One thing I haven't seen mentioned: you can "follow" an author on Amazon and get an email when they publish a new book.

It only works about half the time at Amazon. I didn't get notice when Frank Tuttle's latest came out. Also Benedict Jacka's latest--I completely missed he had a new one out. Patricia Briggs--I got notification. Goodreads does notification now too (I think, but I haven't set it up). Fictfact is the most reliable when it comes to notification in my experience.

pwalker8 · 06-08-2015, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks

It only works about half the time at Amazon. I didn't get notice when Frank Tuttle's latest came out. Also Benedict Jacka's latest--I completely missed he had a new one out. Patricia Briggs--I got notification. Goodreads does notification now too (I think, but I haven't set it up). Fictfact is the most reliable when it comes to notification in my experience.

I don't think that Benedict Jacka's new book is out yet. If you are talking about Veiled, it comes out August 4th.

BearMountainBooks · 06-08-2015, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by pwalker8

I don't think that Benedict Jacka's new book is out yet. If you are talking about Veiled, it comes out August 4th.

Sorry, no, I was talking about LAST YEAR's 'latest' book.

In all honesty, I think I have only received two notices for new books and while I still do the follow/notification thing, I don't have any faith in it. Your results may vary...

barryem · 06-08-2015, 07:43 PM

I've never made any attempt to track the books I've read. I usually remember them and even when I don't I usually remember the author's name and that makes it easy to get a description of that author's books to see which I have and haven't read.

That's not perfect. I do sometimes get halfway into a book and remember that I read it 15 or 20 years ago. That's okay though, as long as I'm enjoying it. If I didn't remember that I read it I probably don't remember a lot about it so it'll be a fresh story to me.

Before I began reading ebooks I read paperbacks almost exclusively and I always gave them away or traded them at a used bookstore when I was done, so I never had a collection or library to help me remember. It really just never mattered to me.

This morning I was on Goodreads, where I have an account but almost never go there, and I clicked on historical novels, since that's what I'm reading now. It brought me a very long list of historical novels and asked me to rate any I've read. I went through the list assigning stars to them. I probably looked through 500 or so books and almost without exception I remembered that I had or haven't read it and if I had I clicked some stars. There were a couple that I wasn't sure about. I didn't take the time to look further but my guess is that I could have figured it out easily enough if I had.

A really good book is hard to forget.

Barry

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06-07-2015, 01:07 PM	#32
vsalvaggio Zealot Posts: 104 Karma: 3187996 Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Texas Device: iPhone, Kindle	One thing I haven't seen mentioned: you can "follow" an author on Amazon and get an email when they publish a new book.

06-08-2015, 07:43 PM	#36
barryem Wizard Posts: 2,459 Karma: 68781975 Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Arkansas Device: Paperwhite 4	I've never made any attempt to track the books I've read. I usually remember them and even when I don't I usually remember the author's name and that makes it easy to get a description of that author's books to see which I have and haven't read. That's not perfect. I do sometimes get halfway into a book and remember that I read it 15 or 20 years ago. That's okay though, as long as I'm enjoying it. If I didn't remember that I read it I probably don't remember a lot about it so it'll be a fresh story to me. Before I began reading ebooks I read paperbacks almost exclusively and I always gave them away or traded them at a used bookstore when I was done, so I never had a collection or library to help me remember. It really just never mattered to me. This morning I was on Goodreads, where I have an account but almost never go there, and I clicked on historical novels, since that's what I'm reading now. It brought me a very long list of historical novels and asked me to rate any I've read. I went through the list assigning stars to them. I probably looked through 500 or so books and almost without exception I remembered that I had or haven't read it and if I had I clicked some stars. There were a couple that I wasn't sure about. I didn't take the time to look further but my guess is that I could have figured it out easily enough if I had. A really good book is hard to forget. Barry

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