{"id":30582,"date":"2017-03-29T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=30582"},"modified":"2017-03-27T13:06:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T18:06:16","slug":"keeping-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/keeping-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Question for you: Do you keep a record of the books you read? If yes, how do you keep track &#8211; in a journal or notebook? In a spreadsheet or google doc? Or do you use an online service such as<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\" target=\"_blank\"> good<strong>reads<\/strong><\/a> or LibraryThing? Or do you just live on the edge and hope you&#8217;ll remember?<\/p>\n<p>When I was little I would keep track of titles on paper (and, of course, with reading logs from my local public library&#8217;s summer reading program), and I have taken a stab at keeping track every once in awhile since then, but mostly I&#8217;m pretty bad at doing this\u00a0consistently. And, quite frankly, most of the lists I did keep were just that &#8211; lists, with no hint of what the book was about or if I liked it or not. Boy, I wish I had a list of everything I&#8217;ve read though &#8211; it&#8217;d be fun to see how my tastes changed and remember old favorites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?attachment_id=30619\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30619\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30619\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/goodreads.png?resize=324%2C70&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One way to keep track of your reading is with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\" target=\"_blank\">good<strong>reads<\/strong><\/a> a free, online service. With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\" target=\"_blank\">good<strong>reads<\/strong><\/a> you can list books that you&#8217;ve read or are in the midst of reading or would like to read someday. You can also see what your friends are reading and get recommendations based on titles you&#8217;ve read and liked. There&#8217;s a rating system and room to write your own review. One of the great things about it is that it isn&#8217;t just a list of titles, there is also a summary of what the book is about (as well as a picture of the book cover!) right at your fingertips, ready to jog your memory. There&#8217;s even a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\" target=\"_blank\">good<strong>reads<\/strong><\/a> app for your phone so your list is always handy and easy to update.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re already using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\" target=\"_blank\">good<strong>reads<\/strong><\/a>, or if you join, be sure to request the Davenport Public Library as a friend (we&#8217;ll friend you right back!) AND &#8211; special bonus &#8211; our Online Reading Challenge now has a book club listing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\" target=\"_blank\">good<strong>reads<\/strong><\/a>! Join the &#8220;Read the World 2017&#8221; book group and you can list the books that you&#8217;ve read each month for the challenge, see what others are reading and talk about what you liked (or didn&#8217;t like!) in the forums. Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Everyone! Question for you: Do you keep a record of the books you read? If yes, how do you keep track &#8211; in a journal or notebook? In a spreadsheet or google doc? Or do you use an online service such as goodreads or LibraryThing? Or do you just<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/keeping-track\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3371,1],"tags":[1528,3395,1189],"class_list":["post-30582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-book-challenge","category-reference","tag-book-lists","tag-online-reading-challenge","tag-what-to-read"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-7Xg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30582"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30621,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30582\/revisions\/30621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}