Personal Reading List

I wouldn't mind seeing a personal reading list that functioned similar to the prayer feature - add a book you want to read to the list, when you've read the book check it off and it goes to a "read" list at the bottom of the list. I've got a number of titles I'd like to read, and I keep forgetting which ones I mean to read until I happen across them again; it'd be nice to have different lists for different purposes/subjects.

I like the community reading lists, but I'd rather not put my own bucket list of to-read books for all the world to see.

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Graham Criddle

Hi Eric

add a book you want to read to the list, when you've read the book check it off and it goes to a "read" list at the bottom of the list

I - and a number of others - use tags for this.

I tag books I want to read with the tag "ToRead" and then when I have finished it change the tag to "HaveRead".

I have a collection showing all the books with the "ToRead" tag

For information on tagging please see http://wiki.logos.com/Tagging

Graham

Rosie Perera

That would be a useful feature, but did you know you can already accomplish that using Tagging?

A number of us use a tag such as TOREAD to mark books in our "read list" and then you can filter your library with mytag:TOREAD to see just that list of books. Then change the tag to FINISHED when you're done with the book. If you want to see a list of just those books from your library which you haven't read yet, you can filter out the finished ones using rating:<6 -mytag:FINISHED.

I recommend using FINISHED instead of READ (past tense) for the ones you've read because READ is a substring of TOREAD so filtering by it would list all those ones too, which you wouldn't want. I also use the tag READING for ones I've started and am still in the middle of, because I often forget what I'm working my way through.

Eric

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/524564#Comment_524564

I'm familiar with tagging. Advantages of a dedicated feature would be ordering/sorting (not just alphabetically), drag-and-drop, one click to mark as read, etc. It's totally a "perfect world" idea, I understand, but tagging is clunkier IMO.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/524568#Comment_524568

ordering/sorting (not just alphabetically

Yes, this would be a major advantage. We could queue our books up in the order we wanted to read them. At home, I keep a shelf of my physical books that I plan to read, roughly in the order I want to read them. I can move them around if I decide to prioritize differently. It's great being able to see them all in a row like that. I can't wait until Logos implements visual bookshelves, and it would be great if they do this feature suggestion of yours. We could have a shelf view for different book lists.

BTW, Collections kind of work the way you're describing, except you can't order them any other way except the column sorting orders. But you can drag and drop books into a collection, so you could make a collection of books you plan to read that way. But they could simply refine the collections feature a bit to add "reading list" functionality to them.

George Somsel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/524572#Comment_524572

I have many books in the "TOREAD" category. The problem is that I actually start to read them which means that I have a considerable list of books in process at any one time. I think I need some discipline. Crack the whip, Rosie. [;)]

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/524587#Comment_524587

The problem is that I actually start to read them

It's a problem that you start to read them? But not starting to read them wouldn't leave any fewer books in your "TOREAD" category. The solution is to stop marking more books as "TOREAD" until you've finished a couple of them. I am certainly not following my own advice, though. I've been going through a massive tagging update, trying to catch up on many months of not tagging any of my new resources at all, and adding "TOREAD" on a number of books I want to read soon. I think I was a bit too optimistic. I've ended up with 49 "TOREAD" books. At the rate I'm going (I read a Logos book only once every six months or so -- I have lots of other reading material that fills up the rest of my time: paper books, Kindle books, magazines, online articles, etc.), it'll take me another quarter century to read them all.

George Somsel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/524646#Comment_524646

The problem is that I actually start to read them

It's a problem that you start to read them? But not starting to read them wouldn't leave any fewer books in your "TOREAD" category. The solution is to stop marking more books as "TOREAD" until you've finished a couple of them. I am certainly not following my own advice, though. I've been going through a massive tagging update, trying to catch up on many months of not tagging any of my new resources at all, and adding "TOREAD" on a number of books I want to read soon. I think I was a bit too optimistic. I've ended up with 49 "TOREAD" books. At the rate I'm going (I read a Logos book only once every six months or so -- I have lots of other reading material that fills up the rest of my time: paper books, Kindle books, magazines, online articles, etc.), it'll take me another quarter century to read them all.

I only tag them mentally.

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/524568#Comment_524568

Advantages of a dedicated feature would be ordering/sorting (not just alphabetically), drag-and-drop

Have you tried using Favorites?

Eric

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/524784#Comment_524784

That's actually a really good idea. Not quite as streamlined, but quite a bit closer to what I had in mind.