Personal Reading Lists

Would it be considered bad form to create a Reading List to track my reading? It would be nice to be able to do that from within Logos. If a Reading List is not the answer, what do you use in Logos to create personal reading lists? Notes? Favorites? Tags?

(I already do this outside Logos, in Excel and on Goodreads. But I'd prefer a list in Logos, too.)

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Bruce Dunning

Would it be considered bad form to create a Reading List to track my reading?

I'd like to hear more details about how you would ideally like this to work. I agree that it would be nice to track this in Logos.

My primary way to track reading right now is to use tagging. BooksToRead-(topic) / BooksReading / BooksFinished. I gather you are talking about something more sophisticated than that.

JT (alabama24)

Wouldn't it just be much nicer to integrate directly with goodreads?

MJ. Smith

There are already a number of personal reading lists out there ... as long as the title doesn't make it look public e.g. LCV term, then I'd go with a Reading List.

Schumitinu

Would it be considered bad form to create a Reading List to track my reading? It would be nice to be able to do that from within Logos. If a Reading List is not the answer, what do you use in Logos to create personal reading lists? Notes? Favorites? Tags?

(I already do this outside Logos, in Excel and on Goodreads. But I'd prefer a list in Logos, too.)

Mark, I like to use Favorites for this purpose. For one, it allows me to sort my reading list by disciplines. And second, If you draw the book from the library into the Favorites and then open it from the Favorites folder, it always opens the book to your last location. So if I read a book on the side, meaning it is not part of my working layout, I can open it from the Favorites "reading list" and it opens up right where I last closed it.

Mark Barnes

I went for a Reading List in this end. I prefer the formatting to Favorites — the text wraps, and I can see the full title and any small details I add. It's nothing fancy. I'm just recording a broad subject and the date I read it. That should be adequate, but I'll see how I get on...

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/810314#Comment_810314

That should be adequate, but I'll see how I get on...

I didn't like spamming the entire Logos user base who have "Recent Reading Lists" on their home page, so I've deleted my personal reading list and settled for a simple tag system (e.g. "read-2016-03-20").

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/811484#Comment_811484

I didn't like spamming the entire Logos user base who have "Recent Reading Lists" on their home page,

I agree that Reading Lists should have a private flag so they don't appear in Recent Reading Lists ... but the way around it is to do some dummy updates on truly public reading lists so that the private one is knocked out of the most recent list.

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/811485#Comment_811485

I agree that Reading Lists should have a private flag so they don't appear in Recent Reading Lists ... but the way around it is to do some dummy updates on truly public reading lists so that the private one is knocked out of the most recent list.

I'll probably be updating my list about twice a week — that's too much work, I'm afraid!

Glenn Crouch

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/810137#Comment_810137

Wouldn't it just be much nicer to integrate directly with goodreads?

That would be nice as I do log my reads there

Dave Thawley

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/810308#Comment_810308

Mark, I like to use Favorites for this purpose. For one, it allows me to sort my reading list by disciplines. And second, If you draw the book from the library into the Favorites and then open it from the Favorites folder, it always opens the book to your last location. So if I read a book on the side, meaning it is not part of my working layout, I can open it from the Favorites "reading list" and it opens up right where I last closed it.

Thanks for pointing this out. I didn't realise Favorites allowed grouping - I've just used it to keep my current book location.

My previous attempt to get a reading list was to use a collection but your idea is far better :-) I do like the idea of private reading lists though - something worth considering in Logos 7 :-)

JohnB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/811524#Comment_811524

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Should we really be encouraging this via Logos forums or do I misunderstand????

I am clearly much more naive than I thought.

Apart from anything else the English is foul.