Saturday
Jan052008
Listmaking
Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 10:21PM 2008 is not even a week old and already I've lost track of what I've read this year. Not quite, maybe, but that's where I'm headed. Now is the time to set up some sort of system, but what? I could try:
- A website like Goodreads or Library Thing
- An unpublished blog post
- Pen-and-paper. Tricia keeps a list of titles in a notebook in her purse [see her helpful comment for how she keeps track of different kinds of books: picture books, teaching-related books, her own reading. Thank you, Tricia!]
- Christie recommends BookCat, a database program designed to catalog book collections [see her helpful comment for more on how she uses BookCat to catalog picture books. Thank you, Christie!]
- She also recommends keeping an annotated list with links (saves time later)
- Something else entirely
How do you do it? Please advise.
[Oh, and what about picture books? I read hundreds (upon hundreds, probably) of picture books. I don't think it makes sense to keep track of all of them: maybe just new releases and books we love?]
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Reader Comments (3)
I've been lurking for a while, but I'll come out to say that I keep track of the picture books. It comes in handy when my daughter says to me, "do you remember that book about the boy who had a fish and it grew so large he had to keep it in swimming pool?" I go to BookCat (http://www.fnprg.com/bookcat/) and will search fish and show her the covers of all the books that come up until we find the right one. I just enter all the ISBNs before I return them to the library.
As for my books I keep a list in Word that I annotate, because I can't remember what I've read, what it was about and whether I liked it or not. I also put in links to the book on Powell's, so that I don't have to write a synopsis, but I don't have to search for it later.
I keep the receipts from the library that shows all the picture books and early readers my son and I read together, but I don't keep that list in GoodReads or LibraryThing. I do use LibraryThing to catalog all the books I use to teach. I've tried GoodReads, but I just can't seem to catch up. What works best for me is the small notebook I keep in my purse and write titles in. I write what I want to read and highlight or check it off when I've finished it.
Good luck with this!
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