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I don’t recall stating a specific goal, but toward the end of the year I decided to bring reading for myself back into my life. I’m a teacher (at the moment), and so my reading over the past few years has basically been for work, with the exception of the teacher book club. Of course, that’s a whole thought stream of its own.

Something I have done in years past to is to keep a notebook and write about each book I read. A summary, a lesson, what I liked or learned about character or plot writing, etc. I’m thinking to start that up again as well.

I’m leery of setting a numerical goal, but there will definitely be more reading for me in 2024.

@bibliolater @bookstodon I read more than I have since I graduated my graduate program in 2017.
I just got a book that looks like an easy read & was available in large print.
“Andy & Don”
About the series “The Andy Griffith Show”

@bibliolater @bookstodon
Keeping a reading reord is a habit that I'm very happy I developed about 10 years ago because I was rebuying books that I'd previously finished and forgotten. Also, I love to be able to go back and talk about favourite features with other readers. I just use GR because it's readily accessible, I can scan ISBNs of books that interest me and I can bookmark whatever other readers recommend. Nice to see what my friends are reading.

@bibliolater I don’t have a reading goal. Typically I read about three or four books a month. As for keeping a record, here’s what I wrote yesterday in response to a similar question:

I’ve kept a handwritten list since 1985 (it’s how I knew when I reread Ursula Le Guin’s _The Left Hand of Darkness_ this year that I had first read it in 1985). I made a decision from the start not to make any comments as I didn’t think I would keep that up. I use a star rating for a while, but soon gave that up too. I note basic book details and the year and month I read it. I’m now about a third into my second notebook. One tip: for a few years now I have circled the author surname and found that that makes it a lot easier to scan back in time.

Occasionally I look back on what I’ve read over the years and it’s interesting to see what obsessions I had at various times!

For a few years now I have also kept track of reading in Calibre, as Calibre makes it easy to add a summary, tags and my own review. But I maintain my notebook list as well.