I read multitudes

[cjsmith]

I'm discovering that if I'm going to be finicky about using Goodreads to record every book I read, I'm going to want an alter ego on there.

Yeah, I'm slow on the uptake sometimes. :)

Goodreads has been adamant for years that they will NOT create a way to make a "shelf" (or your reading status of a particular book) private. And I'm not sure I need people knowing I've read up on embarrassing medical conditions or self-help topics or bedroom activities.

I suppose at least it boosts their apparent user base. :)

Comments

[hitchhiker]

oh, good point! wonder if there's some sort of self-hostable alternative available.

[cjsmith]

AFAIK, LibraryThing seems to be the preferred second choice platform.

[zahraa]

Yuck. I use Google Keep to keep track of what I read for my own purposes.

[cjsmith]

What the heck IS Google Keep anyway?

[zahraa]

It's Google's note-taking program. I will not kid you that it's the best note-taking program I've ever used, but it's the most readily accessible one. If you click the tic-tac-toe board in the upper right on the Gmail page, and then click More at the bottom, and then Even More from Google, it's an orange-ish icon. Also good for keeping track of headaches, responses to different medications, and hopefully only one or two more periods.

[cjsmith]

Huh, interesting. So far I use Apple’s Notes for that kind of thing. I don’t have it all that well organized, but it doesn’t need to be.

[zahraa]

I'm sure it works just as well. You could keep track of your book list that way.

[cjsmith]

Sure. I guess I never saw the need to keep track of books, then I started with Goodreads and enjoyed seeing what other people were reading, then I realized it was a nice little log... except it won’t be complete. It gripes my tiny little ocd soul. :)

[zahraa]

It would gripe my tiny little OCD soul, too, but it would gripe me more not to be able to separate things out in different accounts.

[cjsmith]

Truth. I shall lay the smackdown on my tiny little OCD soul and all will be well. :-D