tracking books.

One of the things that I enjoy the most about reading again is actually having a good way of tracking what it is that I'm reading.  I've been using Vox to enter in each book on the date that I read it with a short review.

In a recent post, rina mentioned Good Reads.  It seems like a really cool concept because not only can you track books you are reading, but you can also track ones you want to read, and currently reading, and there's a social aspect because you can see what other people are reading.  As I've said in the past, because I don't read books that other people in my circle of friends read, it's hard to have a social aspect here on Vox.  When you look at the  christian fiction tag here on explore, it's pretty much just me. But on Good Reads, there are actually people reading the same books as me, and that's kinda cool!

I'm torn though.  I really have enjoyed keeping all of my media consumptions (mostly books from the library and movies from netflix) here on Vox, and entering them in two places is really not a great option.  I do like on Vox that I can pick a specific date; on Good Reads, it looks like I can just pick a month, which isn't as exact as I'd like with how many books I'm reading.  Neither place seems to handle tracking re-reads, which I do enjoy doing and would like to track that.

So I set up a good reads account (my profile is here), but it only has my one testing book (the newest one I added to Vox that I finished on Tuesday).  I guess I'll explore a little more before I make a good choice, or maybe even enter books in both places for a little while to give it a chance.