Shelfari is ok, it's fun to build your virtual bookshelf, post reviews when you finish reading a book (helps with remembering later what you thought at the time), browse through other people's bookshelves and read their reviews. And even discuss books with other people if you like. For book lovers this is great. But...
they have these options for each book:
I've read
I plan to read
I am reading
and what it missing for me there is:
I've dipped into
which in my case would cover a multitude of books. I have bookmarks inside about a zillion books. Not novels - with novels I start from the beginning and keep going till the end, the only exception being those very rare novels that I decide are not worth reading to the end so they get given away to a charity shop. But there are so many books I've got scattered around here which are of the non-fiction variety, whether it's Bill Bryson's Notes From a Small Island which I dip into every once in a while for some light entertainment, or counselling books such as Boundaries which I keep going back to every now and again, or Christian books, of which I've just picked up two off my shelf because I suddenly feel like looking at them after they've been sitting there for years - one of the Cover to Cover series, and Yancey's The Bible Jesus Read.
There was a stage when I was marking as "I'm reading now" every book I started reading. Then I decided that this was totally ridiculous, I'm not going to pretend to be reading now each and every book that I've stuck a bookmark in. I can't say I'm reading now the four I mentioned above plus - just glancing around the lounge right now: Tramp for the Lord, Captivating, Free to Fail, Personality and Prayer, and who knows what else...
no, not all books fit into that linear timeline. at least not the way I read them.
they have these options for each book:
I've read
I plan to read
I am reading
and what it missing for me there is:
I've dipped into
which in my case would cover a multitude of books. I have bookmarks inside about a zillion books. Not novels - with novels I start from the beginning and keep going till the end, the only exception being those very rare novels that I decide are not worth reading to the end so they get given away to a charity shop. But there are so many books I've got scattered around here which are of the non-fiction variety, whether it's Bill Bryson's Notes From a Small Island which I dip into every once in a while for some light entertainment, or counselling books such as Boundaries which I keep going back to every now and again, or Christian books, of which I've just picked up two off my shelf because I suddenly feel like looking at them after they've been sitting there for years - one of the Cover to Cover series, and Yancey's The Bible Jesus Read.
There was a stage when I was marking as "I'm reading now" every book I started reading. Then I decided that this was totally ridiculous, I'm not going to pretend to be reading now each and every book that I've stuck a bookmark in. I can't say I'm reading now the four I mentioned above plus - just glancing around the lounge right now: Tramp for the Lord, Captivating, Free to Fail, Personality and Prayer, and who knows what else...
no, not all books fit into that linear timeline. at least not the way I read them.
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