You can also use more than one term to describe a book. You can use different terms but it requires some editing of the tables on the next tab – more on that in a moment. Currently, the genres listed are as follows: The genre fields, and the fields about diverse characters and marginalized writers require a few notes.įirst, be consistent about what terms you use. Title, Author, Series, Pub Date, Pages, Format, and the date started, ended, and days read fields are all pretty self explanatory. Starting with the Books Read 2020 tab: this is where you enter the data on the books you’ve read.
Here’s a link to a copy of the 2020 Reading Tracking Spreadsheet:Īll you need to do is click File, then Make a Copy to save your own version to your Google Drive. You don’t have to use the To Be Read tab if you don’t want to, but in case it would be useful, it’s available. This is why Andrea’s spreadsheet is so nifty, and why I really enjoy using it.įor the 2020 version, like the 2019, I’ve combined my Planning sheet and Andrea’s original Reading sheet into one spreadsheet with three tabs. You do not, of course, have to use my columns! You can track whatever you want, and change them to account for aspects of your reading that are important to you. (NB: affiliate link if you want to try ToDo-ist out – I use it to run most of my daily life, alongside Google Calendar.)įor 2020, I’ve made a few changes to the spreadsheet for things I want to track, and I’m including them in the shared version. In 2019, I set reading goals for myself (and met them – yay, me!) and I learned to set a weekly reminder on my ToDo-ist to log my reading every Friday so I don’t miss anything. I’m aware of changes in my reading tastes, what books I sped through quickly, which ones I savored, and which genres are showing up in greater numbers in my history. (We get along pretty well, the three of us, thanks for asking!) And since I receive a lot of books well in advance of publication date, or after a long library hold, leaving myself a record helps me manage my reading.Īfter two years of keeping both spreadsheets, one to track what I’m going to read in the future (mine), and one to track what I have read so far (Andrea’s) my reading has changed a lot. Present and Future Sarah do not ever remember what Past Sarah did, so Past Sarah tries to help out by leaving us notes.
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Want to get started and not read any more about tracking your reading? I get it – here, you can go directly to the spreadsheet download link. We wish you the most excellent of reading for the rest of your waking life. The original spreadsheet was created and shared by Andrea in the comments of podcast Episode 275 about Reading Habits. So you can make it your own! Most Important!įirst, and most important, THANK YOU ANDREA. Aarya has a version that she’s modified to track an extensive number of book characteristics, for example. I’ve made a few updates to the 2020 version, but the great thing about this spreadsheet is that it’s so very easy to customize. I’ve used it all year, I love it, and I’m so pleased I’m not alone in enjoying the process of tracking what I read and how I read, too. Seeing how many (or how few) marginalised authors I read has been a HUGE motivator and I hope there are plans for a tracking spreadsheet in 2020!”Īw, heck yeah, there are plans for a 2020 tracking spreadsheet. Please pass on my sincerest thanks to Amanda (I think it’s Amanda?) (SW: Andrea, but close!) for all the hard work she put in to ensure we get the pretty pie charts and stats bars.
I looked at a bunch of other trackers, and SBTB’s was easily the best balance of detail and user-friendliness, and modifying the columns to better reflect what I read (I adore romance, but I will admit to a fondness for othe genres as well) was easy even for an Excel noob like me. “I just wanted to say thanks for creating the Reading Tracking spreadsheet – it’s been a godsend, both so that the books I read don’t slip through my sieve of a memory, and for making sure I read diversely. We’ve shared a version of this reading tracking spreadsheet for two years now, and I’ve received so many email messages and requests for more options from readers who absolutely adore it.
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