Commercial_One_4594 t1_ja30bfl wrote on February 26, 2023 at 1:48 PM

Nope.

I read when I feel like it to enjoy it. I’m not here to monitor or challenge myself like I believe in a self help book.

I love to read and I learned to DNF after a few pages if I don’t enjoy the style or anything.

Life is short baby, life is hard enough to put myself through something painfully boring.

But ! Keeping track of what I’ve read sure, I like seeing what I’ve read and remember those books

Illustrious_Drop_605 OP t1_ja315ku wrote on February 26, 2023 at 1:55 PM

Yeah I know exactly what you mean and it's something I want to be really conscious of... I think going overboard on tracking, one would run the risk of sucking a lot of joy away that comes from the fuzzy/organic nature of reading.

I really like your perspective for sure.

I think given the times we live in, a lot of people these days have a (quite unhealthy) impulse to quantify everything. I don't want to indulge that impulse too greedily or have it become a chore... one of my favourite bits from Ralph Waldo Emerson is a nice reminder to not get caught up on obsessively tracking/monitoring:

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”