Is there a way to mark which books I've read in my Logos 4 library
I use a system of three tags to mark books I'm planning to read in the near future (TOREAD), books I'm in the middle of (READING), and books I've read (FINISHED). I use FINISHED instead of READ so as not to find the "TOREAD" books as well when I'm filtering on books I've already read.
Then to see what books in my library I've read, I use the filter mytag:FINISHED in the Library Find box.
See http://wiki.logos.com/Tagging for more info on tagging your library.
I use similar system to Rosie (actually I think I got the idea from you Rosie). Works great.
Thanks for the tip Rosie this is what I was looking for and works great!!
It can also be interesting to know what year you read a book, to keep track of the range , scope and breadth of your reading. Such a tag could be: Finished2012
I do something similar but make the year tag a separate tag.
One way to know whether you've read a book would be to leave the book open to the last page when you close it. Of course, you only can be sure that you've finished it when you open it. You might want to consider that, if you don't know whether you've read the book, you might need to re-read it. [;)]
One more idea is creating a Favorite shortcut for resources that have been read, which could include date finished.
If use mytag, then a collection is created. In contrast, folders in Favorites can group resources without creating a collection.
Keep Smiling [:)]
One way to know whether you've read a book would be to leave the book open to the last page when you close it. Of course, you only can be sure that you've finished it when you open it. You might want to consider that, if you don't know whether you've read the book, you might need to re-read it.
But there are times when it's nice to be able to bring up a list of all the books you've read just to pause and be thankful, or to peruse them for ideas or recommendations for friends.
Or to be able to search through all (and only) the books you've read for some partially remembered anecdote.
Or to exclude them (using ANDNOT) when trying to pick out your next book to read.
The thing I did was to search by type:monograph (since I didn't care to mark things like commentaries, dictionaries, etc., that I'd read) and then mass-tagged all of them 'unread'.
Then when I read one, I replaced the 'unread' tag with a tag that says (for example), '2012-11-10-FF'. I have another tag that looks like this: '2012-11-10-AQ'. The date with the AQ is when I acquired it; the date with the FF is when I finished reading it.
This allows me to quickly find a list of books that I haven't read, and sort by author, etc. (I can search by 'author:sproul AND mytag:unread' for example.) This would give me a list of RC Sproul books that I haven't read.
As long as I keep up with adding the tags when I newly acquire a resource, this isn't complicated.
I do wish Logos would allow more than one mytag field. It isn't essential, but it would help logically with searches.
Ah yes, that is the key. I have fallen way behind about a year ago with the huge Christmas sale in 2011 and have never caught up since.
Ah yes, that is the key. I have fallen way behind about a year ago with the huge Christmas sale
Rosie, you are like the butcher who backed into his meat slicer, and got a little behind in his work.
Yes, sales and collections can complicate things. But sitting in front of the TV on Saturday night, occasionally glancing at the football game, gives time to catch up!
What do you mean? You can add as many tags as you want.
I do wish Logos would allow more than one mytag field. It isn't essential, but it would help logically with searches. What do you mean? You can add as many tags as you want.
Right. But I'd like a field or two that I could rename to something like 'inventory' (off the top of my head...there may be a better word) so I could use mytag: and inventory: as separate search limiters. This makes a little more sense to me than using mytag: twice with different search term types in it.
Hope this makes sense.
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