You do not, of course, have to use my columns! You can track whatever you want, and change them to account for aspects of your reading that are important to you. (NB: affiliate link if you want to try ToDo-ist out – I use it to run most of my daily life, alongside Google Calendar.)įor 2020, I’ve made a few changes to the spreadsheet for things I want to track, and I’m including them in the shared version. In 2019, I set reading goals for myself (and met them – yay, me!) and I learned to set a weekly reminder on my ToDo-ist to log my reading every Friday so I don’t miss anything. I’m aware of changes in my reading tastes, what books I sped through quickly, which ones I savored, and which genres are showing up in greater numbers in my history. (We get along pretty well, the three of us, thanks for asking!) And since I receive a lot of books well in advance of publication date, or after a long library hold, leaving myself a record helps me manage my reading.Īfter two years of keeping both spreadsheets, one to track what I’m going to read in the future (mine), and one to track what I have read so far (Andrea’s) my reading has changed a lot. Present and Future Sarah do not ever remember what Past Sarah did, so Past Sarah tries to help out by leaving us notes. where the book or ebook file was so I could find it.I needed to know four major pieces of info: Some background: I’ve been using – wow, for four years now – a Google spreadsheet to track my future reading. And that means delicious, nutritious data!! If you’re curious about why and how we track our reading using this shared spreadsheet, read on! Tracking your reading?ĭoesn’t that mean you’re entering a lot of books?
#Transfer booktracker to goodreads download#
Want to get started and not read any more about tracking your reading? I get it – here, you can go directly to the spreadsheet download link. We wish you the most excellent of reading for the rest of your waking life. The original spreadsheet was created and shared by Andrea in the comments of podcast Episode 275 about Reading Habits. So you can make it your own! Most Important!įirst, and most important, THANK YOU ANDREA. Aarya has a version that she’s modified to track an extensive number of book characteristics, for example. I’ve made a few updates to the 2020 version, but the great thing about this spreadsheet is that it’s so very easy to customize.
I’ve used it all year, I love it, and I’m so pleased I’m not alone in enjoying the process of tracking what I read and how I read, too.
Seeing how many (or how few) marginalised authors I read has been a HUGE motivator and I hope there are plans for a tracking spreadsheet in 2020!”Īw, heck yeah, there are plans for a 2020 tracking spreadsheet. Please pass on my sincerest thanks to Amanda (I think it’s Amanda?) (SW: Andrea, but close!) for all the hard work she put in to ensure we get the pretty pie charts and stats bars. I looked at a bunch of other trackers, and SBTB’s was easily the best balance of detail and user-friendliness, and modifying the columns to better reflect what I read (I adore romance, but I will admit to a fondness for othe genres as well) was easy even for an Excel noob like me. “I just wanted to say thanks for creating the Reading Tracking spreadsheet – it’s been a godsend, both so that the books I read don’t slip through my sieve of a memory, and for making sure I read diversely. If you've signed into your device before and you're able to see the Carousel, you'll be all set to look for this app under the "Apps" tab on your Fire HDX device.We’ve shared a version of this reading tracking spreadsheet for two years now, and I’ve received so many email messages and requests for more options from readers who absolutely adore it.
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