Marking Books as Read?

Is there a way in Logos 5 to mark books as having been read? Perhaps attaching some kind of note to the book description, or some other way to know that I've been through them? Being able to designate a date as to when they were read would be especially useful.

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Sarel Slabbert

I would love a way to do this!

JT (alabama24)

Is there a way in Logos 5 to mark books as having been read? Perhaps attaching some kind of note to the book description, or some other way to know that I've been through them? Being able to designate a date as to when they were read would be especially useful.

Logos doesn't have this feature built in, but if you are creative, there are a number of ways you might tackle it. For example: You could add a "mytag" to the book. If you did that, you could quickly filter for or out all of those books.

Milford Charles Murray

Peace to you, David! Very simple indeed! *smile* I use "Finished" as one of my many mytags ...

then, when I want to check, I go to my Library and type in: mytag:finished

and ... I get this:

Andy

In addition to Alabama's suggestion of tagging resources as read, I also use a folder within favourites to 'file' books as 'to read' and as 'read'.

Blessings

Bruce Dunning

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553706#Comment_553706

Just to add to the conversation I use the following tags for keeping track of books:

BooksToRead-TopicofChoice e.g. BooksToRead-Biography
BooksReading
BooksFinished

I have found this method to work very well.

Rosie Perera

Like Milford, I tag books I've read as FINISHED. I use that instead of READ, because "read" is a substring of many other things and it might find books I wouldn't want it to find. To round out this tagging scheme, I also use TOREAD for books I would like to read soon, and READING for books I'm in the middle of.

spitzerpl

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553854#Comment_553854

Another option is to create a bibliography file and name it "read". The benefit with this approach is that you can add a note to the citation with your start/finished reading dates and comments on the book. You can also share the document with others so they know what you've read and you can save the report as a collection which in turns allows you to search your read books easily Or filter your library to the books you've read.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553930#Comment_553930

Another option is to create a bibliography file and name it "read". The benefit with this approach is that you can add a note to the citation with your start/finished reading dates and comments on the book. You can also share the document with others so they know what you've read and you can save the report as a collection which in turns allows you to search your read books easily Or filter your library to the books you've read.

That's an excellent idea! And if you've been keeping track of books you've read with a tag such as FINISHED for some time like I have, you can start out your bibliography file this way: 1) make a collection out of the books you've read (with the rule mytag:FINISHED); 2) create a new bibliography (Documents > Bibliography); 3) use the "Add...a collection" command and select your "books I've read" collection. Then to keep it up to date by adding new books as you finish them, you can open just that bibliography file and the resource you just finished and then use "Add...all open resources"

EDIT: Shorthand that will allow you to skip step #1: in step #3, you can select mytag:FINISHED as the collection, since these auto-collections always exist. You don't have to make an explicit one. I'd forgotten about that. (I always forget that!) But someone's post on another thread just reminded me of it.

Milford Charles Murray

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553949#Comment_553949

Peace to all! *smile*

@Halo! Rosie!

Thanks for sharing such "brilliant" ideas! Appreciated much!

Chuck P.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/554014#Comment_554014

I use Read: and a date...example, Read: 2013-12-14 in a mytag....

Simon’s Brother

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553854#Comment_553854

Fully understand reasoning with using finished as apposed to read but personally don't like word finished when it comes to books. It's to final for me, a read book is one waiting for me to return to it another day, a finished book is one I am not going to get another thing out of it - but that's just my quirkiness and the beauty of having personal tags - we can adapt to what works for us.

Like Milford, I tag books I've read as FINISHED. I use that instead of READ, because "read" is a substring of many other things and it might find books I wouldn't want it to find. To round out this tagging scheme, I also use TOREAD for books I would like to read soon, and READING for books I'm in the middle of.