Book and Reading Tracking | Book Journaling

I use LibraryThing to catalogue as well, and use tags and a dedicated personal thread on a Talk group there (The Green Dragon) to keep track of my reading. I don't review per se, but will comment briefly on whether or not I've enjoyed something and why. There are multiple groups there for that purpose...but you know that.

Never heard of LibraryThing but am downloading now. I hate to admit it, but after joining this community I think 3 years ago next month (confirmed!), one of my first things to do was to get some suggestions for a really good reading list from which I could make myself more well-read. For a while it was part of my signature of must reads for the year. As time has waned on and on, I have been at times more active, and others, less active, but after that thread (and the short time as a part of my signature since), I would come back here for my reading list until I finally put it together in a Wordpress blog that I can access from anywhere. I also put a few other things on there, but that's a story for another post. Long story short, I've used a few methods:

Cloud-based from a forum (this one, frankly speaking)
Cloud-based form a Wordpress site
And now, an app on my device

Another way of logging books you've read that I can speak to is what my significant other has always (and likely still) done:

Compiles a list in pen-and-paper from People Magazine. Every month, the recommended reading list would come out and get manually transcribed to this list. They read much more than I, mostly just for pleasure, at a pace of about 100 books/year. The sometimes three-page list (front and back) gets folded up and taken with them where ever they go, so as they finish a book, it's crossed off the list. Since we have a shared library on our Kindles, I have access to all those read, and would be happy to share if anyone wants to see it in its entirety. Hers is actually quite impressive...

Just joined goodreads recently. It's a fun way to find interesting new books and track what you have already read, share your opinions etc.

I've been tracking all the books I read ever since 2012, first on paper and later I moved to Goodreads. I like Goodreads, because it gives recommendations and because I can easily read other people's reviews on a book and leave my own reviews. Also, quizzes and trivia are always fun.

Nope, I don't track in any way, except in the book and short story challenges here! Or in the "What are you reading" thread. I started a list on Goodreads eons ago, but never kept up with it. I used to post reviews on Amazon, but that fell off long ago.

I'm getting to an age where I don't remember what I read as clearly as I used to, so maybe tracking would help. Shoot, in the Short Story challenge thread, someone else read a story I read just a few months ago, and I have no recollection of the story at all!

I don't have a journal but I do keep a list of the books I have read with the year(s) I have read them. I started that in 2012 then got away from it for a while and started up again this year, so my list isn't complete. It's not online though, I keep it on Word and save it to a flash drive.

I have a Goodreads one under my real name I've been maintaining for about 10 years, and a more recent LibraryThing one, for books I've read under this name, that I've already published reviews for on my website.

The Goodreads one has all the books I remember reading from the past plus the ones from the last 10 years, and is 500+. I rate them, but I don't write reviews for them all, unless it's one that's struck me strongly.

I've used Goodreads. Finding and editing my reading comments was a pain.

On LibraryThing, I sometimes make notes in the Comments or Review fields while I read. Most of my notes for ebooks are recorded in the book with whatever e-reader it's in. (I use a few.) Other notes are scattered around on paper, on unpublished blog posts, and in additional notetaking apps. So, I might've given up on organization?

Litsy is tempting as a tracker for reading progress and notes; however, it looks highly social, like an Instagram for book lovers.

I keep meaning to update my Goodreads or join some other book site, but I'm picky on how I review/how much info I want to give. Plus I have 1600+ reviews and that's a pain in the rear to add to any site at this point.

The closest thing I do to tracking my reads is my review blog (link in signature) and associated website. Helps me sort out my thoughts on what I read, plus I can organize things the way I want on my own site, and it doesn't have to make sense to anyone else.

I keep a list of all of the books I've read in the back pages of my paper journal (title, author, date completed, #of times reading it -- and I won't be surprised some day if a prosecuting attorney says "and this list explains everything, Your Honor!"), and I'll occasionally copy a passage from a book into my journal, but beyond that I don't tally them further. I sometimes visit Goodreads to see what the reaction is to a given book, but that's really so personal that it isn't much of a guide for me.

I'm honestly afraid of "quantifying" my reading too much. I think this is what killed my desire to run: I was keeping minute records about time and pace and distance and such, and I was never "in the moment" of running. Each day I had a given number of miles I "had" to run, and I came to dread it. I don't want that to happen to my reading.