Better way to track purchased books of interest

Ben · 2025-07-03T09:57:52+00:00

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I buy lots of books. Some are intended as background, to feed the search engine, or as standard resources to check. Others, however, especially monographs, I tend to purchase, be excited about… and then forget entirely that they exist, I own them, and want to read. I would like an easy way to put a book into a list of "Remember that this exists and I want to read it." It seems that "Reading Lists" don't do that.

Anyone already do something like this that's EASY? Cause I can tag books… but that requires me to remember the particular tag, to do a search on the tag, etc.

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Ben

As it turns out, I have TWO different tags "Unread" and "ToRead" that I didn't even remember I'd made. Tagging is not high enough on the obvious UI level to work for this.

Edit: Nope, I have THREE different tags! Which shows how useless it is.

Steve Maziarz

I have the same issue. While there is the ability to Favorite a Book, there's no way to easily get to the ones you have Favorited. To me, that should be one of the filters offered when you open your Library. Tags is another way I have approached it. At least there is a Filter for Tags.

I've also resorted to looking at my orders in my account to jog my memory.

scooter

I put 2b-read-pretty-soon volumes along the very top shelf in my rig. Extras drill down on top of facilitate Serendip… + Update Now. I can now look at them to choose 'next.'

In the middle of the cross shelf I put 'Neo-orthodoxy' by Ryrie. It is a place holder: all to be read to the right; any books I am reading, have to check to the left. Ryrie shows up like a pink highlighter.

I recently saw someone, I believe it was Doc B, say he rated all new books as a 2. Perhaps you can work with this.

DMB

Well, no help here. I tag books I want to examine in more depth, or read. The stack grows, especially with another Kindle group.

Too bad the customer wish-list can't be integrated into the app library.

NichtnurBibelleser

Too bad the customer wish-list can't be integrated into the app library.

Have you a direct feedback from Logos on this or a built a poll?

Theophan Dort

A system that works well for me is to add a folder to the "Shortcuts" on my Logos desktop. I ridiculously actually have 3 lists of books, based on priority. In my top list, I move books I am reading NOW to the top of the list by putting "01" as the first thing in the name of that resource, and Logos automatically sorts it to the top of the list. The ones I want to read next I put "02" in front of the title.

I didn't find how to do this particularly intuitive, by the way, so here it is: I drag a book I want to add to my list and drop it on the "Shortcuts" area on the Logos desktop. I then Right-click it to pull up a context menu, and there's a "Folder" option in it. I put the number 1 in that text box, and it adds that book to my "1" folder (or, if I hadn't made that folder yet, it creates it).

The main thing is that my list is only one click away, right there on my desktop:

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