Booklogging

My Tumblr account worked well for me this past year as a way to log online reading (articles, notable blog posts—though inevitably many of the latter wound up in my Google Reader starred items, so I guess it depends on where I read something; I'm still more fractured in my chronicling than I would like to be). I need to be better about tagging, because once an article has Tumbld off the main page, I'm lazy about paging back for it. I could find something if I needed to, though, and that was the reason I set up the account.

I've tried half a dozen ways of recording the picture books I read to my younger set—which means I wound up with half a dozen incomplete lists. Messy. Paper just doesn't cut it because Huck is a terror with my favorite Flair pens. Twitter would be fastest—I even set up a separate Twitter account just for book titles at one point, but I seldom used it because it's a pain to log out of my main account and into the minor, and vice versa. Of course I could be perpetually logged into both at Brizzly, but I find I still don't bother. I'm going to try using the Tumblr for this, too, a picture-book log, for a while. It's such a fast and easy interface & I can jot notes longer than 140 characters if I so desire. So for now, until I forget about it, you can see what books my small fry are enjoying at the "Read to Rilla" tag on my Tumblr. If I stick with it longer than a week or two, I'll add a button in the sidebar here.

I'll keep chronicling the rest of my reading here at Bonny Glen, and on Goodreads when I remember. My 2010 book log is on this page. 2009. 2008.

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