Like with electronically stored photos and documents, I have “management issues” of where all of my books-to-read lists are kept. And then there’s the digital detritus of the books that I’ve read but haven’t removed from the list or deleted its download.
I have no fewer than 4 “to-read” lists. I say “no fewer” instead of “exactly,” because there are undoubtedly some scribbled on pieces of paper somewhere.
1. My to-read list at the Wake County Public Library currently contains 33 books, all of which, of course, the library carries. Most of them include a note as to how it came to be on the list.
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2. My to-read list on Goodreads currently contains 54 books, and the ones on this list are primarily ones that I did not find available at the library at the time I added them to this list.
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3. My to-read list on my Kindle contains 30 books, and these are free downloads that I got either from BookBub or Amazon First Reads and haven’t read yet.
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4. My to-read list in the Notes app on my iPhone is a “quick list” of the priority items to consider for my very next book.
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Wow! That’s a lot of ‘to be read’ books!!! 🤣
I believe we’ve read The Marlow Murder Club, so you can delete that one! I also am interested in reading the author of The Wedding People’s other books.
We read The Thursday Murder Club: https://nematome.org/2023-books-read/#Thursday
I’d love an excel spreadsheet of these (ok, yes, I’m more than h8nting.) I fault Goodreads for not being better software that it doesn’t have that capability. I also fault it for being klugey software in almost all respects. It seems like it would be a good retirement hobby to prompt AI to gather all those lists in one place. Hmm.