Keeping track of books....

Wow! I'm nowhere near as organized. To try to keep myself from re-buying titles that I'd already bought & not yet read (lots & lots of those!), esp. when I'd go to Half-Price Books on the big sale weekends, I put them in a small notebook listing by author, titles underneath. And I'd carry my Kindle with me. But that only helped if I had all my titles downloaded to my Kindle & after a couple "full reboots", I gave up trying to download them all; only the authors that I had to have for immediate access. The wifi in HPB is sssslllooowww, so logging into the Amazon account didn't help much either. So I tried making a list of authors to shop for that I'd not yet tried, or specific titles I still needed. It did help avoid most duplicates but a few crept in. Now, I just tell myself I have so many, don't go! Last time I was there I got mostly dvd's & a few books. Man, that felt weird!

I've been working on a spreadsheet with multiple pages, listing my stitching patterns, threads, fabrics, beads, etc, but got a long way to go on that. I'm also listing my dvd collection. I've about finished those; just have to get them back onto the shelves in some kind of order so I can find them when needed. I've thought about doing the same with the books, esp. the dtbs, but it's a low priority these days! And then there's the cd collection. I should probably weed that one; I rarely listen to so many of them!

Oh, on the books, if I got rid of a copy, I put a single line thru the title in the notebook. I left a column in the dvd spreadsheet that I can put a note if I get rid of it. That's about as far as my organization goes. I usually move to the next book instead of entering anything about it somewhere. Maybe when I get some of the other organizational projects done...

Girl...you don't want to see what that spread sheet would like after a few frozen daiquiris!!  I'm a light weight!  

The patterns (unkitted) are in a filing cabinet by general subject, like Dragons, Christmas, Santas, Floral, Conceptual (lots of needle work by Perin, Ink Circles, etc) samplers, etc. If kitted, too bulky for the filing cabinet so they're in a dresser drawer. Yes, I have the various threads in bins, but each of the Caron overdyed's types are in their own bin; I have a lot of theirs. And Gentle Arts gets a bin, & DMC regular gets a bin...And so many others! And OMG, the beads, etc.!! That's why I'm listing them in the spreadsheets so I know what I have when I start to kit a pattern to have it ready when I'm ready to start a new project. So annoying when I pull one I want to start & don't have the threads, etc. needed & have to order...and wait!!

I got serious about reading way, way back in my formative years...between 5 & 10! I started buying when I started college, so there's almost 50 years of book buying in this place. That's a heck of a lot to list! But I figure that's part of the fun of retirement; trying to organize all the stuff I was buying all those decades I was working! At the rate I'm going, it may take my entire retirement!

I am not organized for that as much as I would love to be. I just put the books by alphabetical order, if I have the physical copy.
In my kindle I create folders for the series.

I have a journal(pen & paper) that I keep track of the books I have read. I do not keep track of the books in my tbr pile as I am pretty good with knowing what I have. I like being able to pick up the journal and look through it. It has come in very handy as just recently I came across a book by an author that I like but it didn't sound familiar. So back to the journal I went, sure enough I had read it!

I keep track by year and then count them up at the end of the year. Some years are better than others depending what has gone on throughout the year.

Feeling like a slacker because..... I dont. I just read. I did turn on my history at the library so every book I've ever checked out is listed. In a pinch I can possibly find it. maybe. I'd say 95+% of the books I'm reading are on my kindle these days. Paper books I TRY to enter on goodreads in a category of dtb.