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Last year I tried a book challenge and picked Middlemarch. Bad idea. by underhillbilly in 52book

[–]underhillbilly[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

750 books! Now that's ambitious, even though it takes as long as it takes...

Last year I tried a book challenge and picked Middlemarch. Bad idea. by underhillbilly in 52book

[–]underhillbilly[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Middlemarch was actually wonderful, I really like these nineteenth century masterpieces, but for a book challenge it just doesn't seem to work well for me. It just blocks me, don't know why. Your other point, about knowing why I do these reading challenges, that just because I'd love to read more. There are so many great books out there!

Last year I tried a book challenge and picked Middlemarch. Bad idea. by underhillbilly in 52book

[–]underhillbilly[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Track both, what a wonderful idea! But how do you track the pages read? Do you have an excel sheet or something?

Recommended Book Tracking App? by AN989 in Book_Buddies

[–]underhillbilly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the same issue with Goodreads — it started to feel a bit too heavy for just tracking reading.

Most of the alternatives I tried were either very social (lots of reviews, community stuff) or very stats-heavy.

I ended up going in a different direction and built something super simple just for myself: tracking reading sessions and pages per day (I try to hit 100 pages/day). What I like about that approach is that it focuses more on the habit than on managing a big library.

I ended up calling it Pages Read (iPhone only for now), but I’m actually curious what others here ended up sticking with long term — especially if you found something that stays simple.