Thoughtful Thursday – Book Organization – September 18, 2014

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September 18: Do you organize your books electronically? How do you organize them?

 

Do I . . . Do I what now?  Organize? A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.  No.  I mean, most of my e-reader apps offer several different organizational options, but I don’t really use them because I’m constantly focused on my TBR list for EveryFreeChance.com.  I used to have a zillion different little post-its and torn out notebook pages strewn about the house, but I’ve ever-so-conveniently married a computer engineer, so he helped me find a system . . .

. . . Instead of a few dozen scraps of paper, I now use Tomboy Notes (which I can sync between my iPad, computer, and phone, thank goodness).  I’ve got a note running down the entire left hand side of my computer screen, and I know it’s time to hold off on adding more to the TBR list when it refuses to fit in one column).  I have the titles all written down in the chronological order I’ve agreed to read them in, and I’ve got a little parenthetical note just next to the title telling my forgetful self where I’ve saved the file, or, if it’s an IRL book, that it’s made of paper).  I’ve reserved a few columns at the top for Blog Tours, so when I need to have a book read and reviewed by a certain date it goes at the top of the list.

Here’s what the first few lines of my list look like right now:

EFC READING LIST

10/28 – Who Knows Tomorrow (paper)

10/? – Blood Entwines (waiting for date, need file)

 

NO Dates

 

Taliesin (paper)

Salted (kindle)

Clay (DropBox)

A Soul’s Kiss (kindle)

 

 

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