Marking books as read

I remember a thread at one point about someone coming up with an effective way to do this through Notes. With linking now working in the Beta this becomes easier...if your using the beta. Tags can be quite effective for this, as you have mentioned. When you come across a book, tag it as "read". When you start reading it change that tag to "reading" when you've completed it, change the tag again.tagging used in combination with rating could be very powerful for this. Just set up a collection for mytag:read, then you can open the collection to view the resources on your list.

Another option is to use favorites. Set up a "reading list" folder, which contains three folders, future reading, current reading, and completed reading. Move them through the books as you complete them. The main problem with this is it opens it to the saved location, not the last read location. The suggestion for notes was a good one because it included instructions on how to manipulate the hyperlink to always open the resource to the last read location.

I believe using tags, as Philip suggested, is the best method of marking when a book has been read. That allows you to easily make a dynamic collection so you can search a recently read book.

If you want to use a note file too, you can copy a hyperlink and then strip out the location. Place the link in a note file. Then when ever you click on the link it will open the book to the last-closed place.

libronixdls:jump|pos=LLS-AOL:0<QUE.12>.772.0|res=LLS:4000QUESTANSR  is a hyperlink consisting of a location and a resource ID. If you strip the ID like this: libronixdls:jump|res=LLS:4000QUESTANSR the link will open the book as described above.

I was thinking about this only yesterday so I set it up in this way. I tag a book with one of three tags ("TOREAD, READING or DONE"). I then have three collections, one for each of these tags. It is very simple and works effectly. This way I can tag books I want to read ... one could also set up a collection where none of these tags apply (i.e. books you have neither read nor have tagged as wanting to read ...)

If you set up a collection for "READING" not sure you need hyperlinked notes - not sure what it adds, since whenever you open a book from the collection it will open to where you got to last time ...

Philip Spitzer said:

Tags can be quite effective for this, as you have mentioned. When you come across a book, tag it as "read". When you start reading it change that tag to "reading" when you've completed it, change the tag again.....Just set up a collection for mytag:read, then you can open the collection to view the resources on your list.

Jonathan's later suggestion of tags TOREAD, READING, and DONE would work better, because mytag:read would pick up both the books marked read and the books marked reading, which isn't what you'd want.

Jonathan West said:

I was thinking about this only yesterday so I set it up in this way. I tag a book with one of three tags ("TOREAD, READING or DONE"). I then have three collections, one for each of these tags. It is very simple and works effectly. This way I can tag books I want to read ... one could also set up a collection where none of these tags apply (i.e. books you have neither read nor have tagged as wanting to read ...)