I do what’s convenient and efficient and don’t worry about what anyone else thinks about my methods. You know me… I love gluing in pages to my bullet journal because I’m not a purist when it comes to my journal. When I finished the creating chart, I printed the pages, trimmed everything to fit my A5 bullet journal, and started assembling the new book tracking section. I also included an extra page with lots of blank space so I could add more books I acquired throughout the year. I set up the document to be the size of my bullet journal (which is an A5 Tekukor dotted notebook) and arranged the books and categories on the page how they fit best and what made sense to me. My book tracking pages were created in Microsoft Word, then printed and glued into my bullet journal.īecause full-out analog wasn’t an option for this much info, I created a document in Microsoft Word (but MS Publisher would also be a great choice) that was essentially just a big table with enough columns for each of the categories for each book. Here’s what I included for each book title: Because I wanted to include so much information for each book, I knew creating a handwritten list would test my patience beyond its limits. Once I had my book categories set and the books sorted alphabetically by author, then by publication year by that author… I had a final list! But I wasn’t ready to go all the way to analog with this list. Unless it’s something by Nora Roberts or Janet Evanovich (which I devour all at once), it usually takes me a while to get through a book because I take my time and enjoy the experience (who am I kidding?! I try to read before bed and I end up falling asleep before I can even finish a single page!) So this list was pretty daunting! I mean, I love reading, but I’ve never been the type of person who plows through a book a day or several in a week. Then I started moving books around based on my own categorization system by renaming genre titles, sorting by author and publication date, grouping books together that needed to be together (according to my nerdy brain).īy this time I was starting to feel like a book nerd to the highest extreme. I started with a general sort by genre (one of the columns Goodreads gave me). This left me with an MS Excel spreadsheet with a bunch of columns so I could sort the books into sub-categories.
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The great thing about Goodreads is you can export your full book list or just a single category if you want. It was time to move off digital and go analog. It’s always nice to connect with other bookaholics! Analog Book Tracker That still seemed like a big list, but doable.Īre you on Goodreads too? Why not head over and add me as a friend. So I cut some more and finally settled on about 60. So I needed to prioritize and created a new category in Goodreads for my 2018 reading list and started adding books to that list. Whoops! My “want to read” list was massive with about 175 books. Then once I had my “want to read” list I thought I was all set and I’d have my list for the year. Goodreads has categories for books you’ve already read, want to read, or currently reading. Once I had all my books in an inventory I needed to sort them into categories. Whew! That was a huge project that I worked on over a couple weeks. Here’s a small assortment of the books on my reading list for this year. Adding books manually was very easy since I just needed to type in the ISBN number and Goodreads found that book for me in their database. Then I gathered up all the physical books in my house that I bought locally – either at a normal bookstore or through some type of second-hand situation (thrift store, yard sale, used bookstore) and added those to my inventory too. I added e-books, physical books and audiobooks I’ve purchased through one of Amazon’s platforms. I dug in and learned that I could sync my Amazon and Kindle purchases with my Goodreads account. Design, print and assemble my book tracker section.
Digital is the way to go with this project. I could have done this all analog but that is definitely inefficient and there would be no easy way to sort by genre or author once I had a massive list of books on an inventory list. The first step was to figure out what books I actually had before I could figure out which books I wanted to read this year. Buy the book tracker templateīefore we get into the details of how I created my book tracker, I want to let you know that you can buy the Book Tracker Template in the Shop along with the cover page that you can add color or leave black & white. This wooden crate is supposed to be my “to be read” pile – but the pile has grown beyond the limits of this crate.
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