I recently hired a decorator to paint my living room. Clearing out the space before he started meant all our books had to come down off the shelves and into temporary storage (where they still live, admittedly). That got me thinking about keeping better track of books I’ve read.
So, I’ve added a /shelf page to the site. It pulls my reading data from Hardcover, a book tracking service that seems like a decent alternative to Goodreads (which no longer provides an API for this kinda thing).
The page shows what I’m currently reading and what I’ve read, grouped by year. If I’ve given a book 5 stars, it has a wee “Loved it” badge beside it. If I’ve written a blog post about a specific book, there’s a “Blog Post” link that takes you to it.
Author and series names are clickable filters, so if you want to see only books by a particular author you can do that without wading through everything else. I say that, but I’ve not read anywhere near as much as I’d like to over the past 10-15 years. I blame that on having a kid, and on going back to Uni in 2017.
Hardcover seems pretty new so I’ve no idea how long it’ll be around, but it has an API and it was easy to move over to it from Goodreads, so that was enough for me.
✳ Picture shown is much neater than my actual bookshelves at home.