Any e-tools for tracking your books?

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Registered: 01-01-2004
Any e-tools for tracking your books?
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Mon, 10-31-2005 - 11:01pm

hi all,
long time no write, and not much read either unfortunately, not as much as i like anyway.

but things have calmed down and i'm knee deep into Kite Runner and loving every minute of it.

i have never tracked books i've read, started a journal so many times but never kept it going.

just curious, does anyone keep track of their reads with a database, a blog, a spreadsheet, or is there some program available that does it?

i'm loving my new computer and type a lot faster than i write, so i'm thinking this could be good.

although i will have missed the first 38 years of my reading, i'm hoping to capture the rest from here on in!!!
thanks for the input....

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Registered: 12-12-1997
Tue, 11-01-2005 - 11:59am

For the past two years, I've kept a file in Word with the names of the books I read, a 1 to 10 rating and a little about what I did or didn't like about the book.


Also, I keep a list of books I have that I want to read, so they don't get lost in my bookshelves.


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Registered: 04-09-2003
Tue, 11-01-2005 - 3:10pm

Michelle, take a look at this site.


http://bibliophil.org/default.php

Gretchen


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Registered: 02-15-2005
Tue, 11-01-2005 - 3:45pm

Gretchen, that site is really cool!

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Tue, 11-01-2005 - 3:59pm
I just started by adding what I was curretnly reading then every so often I'll add a few from the past or upcomming reads. I still get behind and probably will never get everything entered.

Gretchen


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Registered: 02-15-2005
Tue, 11-01-2005 - 4:03pm

Well, I'm adding the books that I can see from where I'm sitting here at the computer.

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Registered: 01-01-2004
Tue, 11-01-2005 - 7:38pm

gretchen,
how cool!

thanks for sharing :-)

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 11-01-2005 - 8:11pm

Hi Michelle ~


Nice to see you again :).

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Registered: 01-01-2004
Tue, 11-01-2005 - 8:28pm
thanks,
i can't put Kite Runner down, so I'm hoping to finish it this week.

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Registered: 05-23-2001
Wed, 11-02-2005 - 7:16pm

Last January, with all the book ideas I was getting from these boards, I decided to actually start keeping a TBR list. What I ended up with were two spreadsheets - one for "READ" books & one for TBR. I list Author, Title, Series?, New to me Author?, Source (ie: library, bought, loan) Comments, M/Y read. It's interesting to see how much I actually read. Every so often I print off a copy of my TBR list to take with me to the library when I don't have to many holds in. I am really glad that I started this. I especially used to hate it when I'd read something I liked & then later couldn't remember who the author was so I could read more by them. And since my memory is about like a sieve anymore, this is quite helpful. ;-)

Liz

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Thu, 11-03-2005 - 12:38am
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