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_StateoftheArt_ t1_ja3ajce wrote

Reply to comment by Illustrious_Drop_605 in Do you track your reading activity? How and why? by Illustrious_Drop_605

Maybe it's an age thing? I'm 42 so the internet didn't start being a real thing until I was in my teens. I was reading Stephen King when I was 6 so I didn't grow up with the mindset of reading being a thing to keep track of, other than having books on a shelf. That's my tracking, I think haha

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bghanoush t1_ja3q9ds wrote

58 here and have tracked since 2007, so not entirely age-based, but perhaps I'm an exception.

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tonyrocks922 t1_ja46mf2 wrote

I am about your age too, and I'm happy that tracking apps exist now because it means I no longer pick up an interesting looking book at a library or used bookstore and get a few dozen pages in before I realize I read it already. I guess if you purchase and keep every book you read it's easier to keep track of but I don't have the space or money for that.

I use Goodreads just to track what I read already, and sometimes add books to my to read list when someone makes a recommendation or I read a review. I ignore all the social and recommendation parts of it.

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Ellemir t1_ja7dhoa wrote

Same here (I am 51). I read in English and German, translations make it even harder to keep track of what you have read so far.

I mainly use Goodreads and will keep doing so, because of my goodread friends. Reviews become more valuable when you know the reader and his taste in books.

I dabble in Storygraph, Librarything and Excel, not sure which one I want to use in future for some reading data.

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